The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of the Christian life does not make us faint and cave in. “If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The title of the book probably comes from his July 7 th devotional entitled All Noble Things Are Difficult: I think it would be fair to say if she had not done so, this amazing man of God would have been forgotten by now, one hundred years after his death. His widow, Gertrude “Biddy” Hobbs Chambers, self-published the book around 1927. This book compiles Chamber’s preaching to students and soldiers. He served as a pastor, a YMCA chaplain, and the principal of the Bible Training College in greater London. Its author, Oswald Chambers (1874 –1917), was an early-twentieth-century Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement evangelist and teacher. My Utmost for His Highest is one of the most beloved of all daily devotional books.
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