ABANDONED TO GOD Oswald Chambers McCasland Book Review

Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God
The life story of the author of My Utmost for His Highest
David McCasland, Author
Published by Discovery House
ISBN: 978-1-57293-050-6 (paperback)
Retail price: $14.95




babamarusia's review: I recommend this book.
I have just finished reading about the life of Oswald Chambers in the biography, Abandoned to God, written by David McCasland. If you have ever used the daily devotional My Utmost for His Highest, then you are familiar with Mr. Chambers already.

Throughout his short life, Oswald Chambers energetically spent every moment humanly possible in the Lord’s service. He didn’t initially start out to do so, he began his adult student life studying art. The call to service came, however, and Chambers answered. Tirelessly he taught and preached wherever the Lord sent him. When he met the woman who would become his wife whom he called “Biddy,” she too had the same purpose. My Utmost for His Highest was compiled by Mrs. Chambers after Oswald’s death from his sermons that she had taken down in shorthand when preached.

The biography, Abandoned to God, is an interesting and informative reading experience. I truly enjoyed this account of Oswald Chambers’ life, and found it inspirational and stirring. I recommend this book.

From the publisher:
In Oswald Chambers—Abandoned to God, you trace the life of this servant of God from his boyhood home in Scotland through an astounding journey of faith and trust in God's provision.

From the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, and ultimately to a YMCA training camp in Egypt during World War I, you'll find Chambers to be a man utterly devoted to God, His Word, and to sharing the timeless wisdom of the Bible with others.

The last six years of his life were spent as principal of the Bible Training College in London and as chaplain to British Commonwealth troops in Egypt during World War I. After Chambers died, at age 43 in 1917, the books that bear his name were compiled by his wife from her own verbatim shorthand notes of his talks.

Chambers never lived to see the book for which he is best known, My Utmost for His Highest, published. He left a spiritual legacy that has touched men, women, politicians, and preachers ever since. Now you can read about this remarkable life well-lived and find inspiration to persevere for the sake of Christ.