According to Richard C. Halverson, former Chaplain of the United States Senate, the copy of My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers, was what brought him back to Jesus time and time again. Here are his words:
“Nine months after I met Jesus Christ, a copy of My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers, was given to me for Christmas, 1936. On January 1, 1937, I began to read this daily devotional book, and with relatively few exceptions it has been my daily spiritual nurture ever since. One year I put it aside and experimented with several other daily devotionals, but they did not satisfy me.
No book except the Bible has influenced my walk with Christ at such deep and maturing levels. Nor has any influenced my preaching and teaching so much.
The book’s strength lies in its stubborn insistence on the objective reality of redemption as the only secure foundation.Today subjective experience is often accepted as the criterion for authentic faith and experience is the person of Jesus Christ.
Chambers makes the point that Christian faith is rooted in events. The historicity of the gospel is its validation. Propositional truth is important, but the basis of faith is always Jesus Christ himself.
Through the years Chambers has kept me on course by bringing me back to Jesus. Believing Jesus, not just believing my beliefs about Jesus, is basic”.