My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers
Week 4: The Nature of Faith
Read selected entries from My Utmost for His Highest on faith and trust (e.g., January 15–21). Key verses: Hebrews 11:1; Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17.
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Chambers pushes back against a sentimental view of faith as optimism or positive thinking, and calls us back to the biblical vision of faith as an act of the whole person staking everything on the character of God.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Chambers defines faith not as a feeling of certainty but as a deliberate act of trust in the character of God even when circumstances argue against it. How does this definition differ from the way faith is talked about in popular Christian culture?
2.He often says that faith is not the absence of doubt but the refusal to let doubt have the final word. Have you experienced a season where you chose to trust God despite strong doubts? What sustained you?
3.Chambers contrasts "the faith of adherence" (believing doctrines) with "the faith of reliance" (trusting a Person). Which comes more naturally to you? Can you have one without the other?
a.Is there a specific promise of God you are currently finding hard to trust? Name it if you're comfortable.
b.What would it look like to act on that promise this week as an exercise of "the faith of reliance"?
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