Each of you should use whatever gift
you have received to serve others.
—1 Peter 4:10
The daily-devotional book My Utmost for His Highest has occupied space on my coffee table for many years.
Back story. Oswald Chambers was appointed to serve as chaplain to Australian and New Zealand troops guarding the Suez Canal in Egypt during World War I. Chambers died at age forty-three in 1917.
In 1927, his widow, Gertrude, compiled passages from his sermons into sections for each day of the year and published them in book form. It has been translated into thirty-five languages, and 13 million copies have been printed.
Are we most indebted to Oswald—or to Gertrude? I think it’s about equal. We wouldn’t have My Utmost for His Highest without Oswald—nor without Gertrude.
Give what you have. Nothing more is required.
Nothing less is enough.