At a glance: this is a 13-week study and discussion guide for My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers, with 104 questions organized by reading assignment. Week 1 is free to read, with no card required.
My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers is one of the most beloved devotional books ever written. Compiled from Chambers's sermons and lectures by his wife Gertrude ("Biddy") after his death in 1917, the book presents 365 daily meditations, each anchored in a specific Bible verse and designed to press the reader toward total abandonment to God. Chambers's central thesis is that the Christian life is not about moral improvement or religious activity but about an ongoing, deepening surrender to Jesus Christ — what he calls giving your "utmost" to the One who gave His highest for you. The meditations are short but dense, often provocative, and always personal. Chambers does not allow the reader to remain comfortable; he presses toward the question of whether we truly trust God in the details of ordinary life, not just in grand spiritual moments.
This study guide is designed for small groups or individual study over thirteen weeks. Because My Utmost for His Highest is organized as 365 daily entries rather than traditional chapters, this guide is structured thematically, grouping the book's most prominent and recurring themes into weekly units: surrender and consecration, knowing God, the nature of faith, suffering and suffering's purpose, intercession and prayer, service and ministry, the will of God, obedience, sin and repentance, the Holy Spirit, and the cross. Each week, participants are encouraged to read the relevant devotional entries, spend time journaling their honest reactions, and then discuss the questions either alone before God or with a group. You will get the most from this guide if you resist the urge to give "right" answers and instead allow Chambers's pointed words to surface real struggles and real questions in your own walk with God.
By the end of this guide, you should expect to have a clearer understanding of what Chambers means by "entire sanctification" and abandonment to Christ, a more honest reckoning with the places in your life where self still sits on the throne, and a deeper confidence that God's call on your life is not merely to usefulness but to Himself. Chambers famously wrote, "The greatest thing you can do for God and for others is to be what God made you to be." This guide exists to help you take that call seriously, one week — and one honest question — at a time.