From My Utmost for His Highest
Where then do You get that living water? —John 4

I’ve been doing this long enough to know not to bet against Oswald Chambers.

When I first read this, I felt he might have this wrong. Some of the lines he drew didn’t seem to connect to the text, so I kept digging.

Turns out, Chambers was right. It has to do with…

     From My Utmost for His Highest
. . . though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved —2 Corinthians 12

At the risk of oversharing, I’ll say this: A man of my age and situation should not be tweeting as much as I do.

If that offends you, then you’re in a different place than I am. I feel pretty confident that I am waaay over the line. It’s uncomfortable, at times, and I probably look equally foolish to massive and tiny tweeters, alike.

But somewhere along the way, I decided I wanted to stand in front of God and say, “I did everything I could do with what You gave me.”

If you’ve read A Rooster Once Crowed, you know that I’m talking about…

    From My Utmost for His Highest

Arise, let us go from here —John 14

I’m glad the Chambers’ chose to rally against the great destructive force of daydreaming in our culture. This must not be allowed to continue, right?

At first, I didn’t get why daydreaming was adverse to Jesus, today. I really didn’t. What’s the harm in daydreaming?

Daydreaming is a short-term detachment from one's immediate surroundings, during which a person's contact with reality is blurred and partially substituted by a visionary fantasy, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, imagined as coming to pass, and experienced while awake. Chambers preached this sometime early in the 1900s and the more I looked into it, the more I realized that it was written more for us today than then. And likely more for me than you.

In order to take initiative against it, we must first understand that the real danger of daydreaming is…