Oswald Chambers' teaching was compiled by his wife in the devotional, My Utmost for His Highest. His lesson for today (excerpted below) is based upon Matthew 5:3, "Blessed are the poor in spirit." Chambers talks about the fallacy of looking at Jesus only as Teacher. May my family members who believe Jesus was only a great teacher be drawn to the truth.
"Beware of placing Our Lord as a Teacher first. If Jesus Christ is a Teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize me by erecting a standard I cannot attain. What is the use of presenting me with an ideal I cannot possibly come near? I am happier without knowing it. What is the good of telling me to be what I never can be--to be pure in heart, to do more than my duty, to be perfectly devoted to God? I must know Jesus Christ as Saviour before His teaching has any meaning for me other than that of an ideal which leads to despair. But when I am born again of the Spirit of God, I know that Jesus Christ did not come to teach only: He came to make me what He teaches I should be. The Redemption means that Jesus Christ can put into any man the disposition that ruled His own life, and all the standards God gives are based on that disposition."
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