We remember Oswald Chambers today for the enduring impact of his Daily Devotional ‘My Utmost for His Highest’. Chambers parents were devout Christian. From his early teens Chambers himself was marked out as a deeply committed Christian. While further studying art at the University of Edinburgh, he was called by God into full-time ministry. He attended a small theological college near Glasgow and was soon used as a lecturer and preacher while still studying. When back in England he was known as founder of the Holiness Movement. We have much to be grateful for in that Chambers had married Gertrude Hobbs in 1910, she being 10 years younger than Chambers and able through her astute skill in shorthand to preserve his talks and sermons in written text which became a blessing not only through her lifetime but to this present age. Chambers enlisted as a YMCA chaplain in World War 1 and his impelling influence on solders amazed authorities. He developed acute appendicitis in October 1917 but concerned that there would not be enough beds for wounded soldiers after the battle of Gaza, he refused to be taking into a hospital bed. It was at the end of October that a doctor performed an emergency operation on him, and sadly he succumbed to pulmonary hemorrhage on the 15th November. Chambers was buried in Cairo with full military honours. The collected works in shorthand were meticulously got ready for publication by his widow and therefore you and I are able to be inspired anew by his life and work,