Category: DEVOTIONALS

  • THE CORRUPTION OF NATURE AND THE EFFICACY OF DIVINE GRACE

    Imitation of Christ THE DISCIPLE O LORD, my God, Who created me to Your own image and likeness, grant me this grace which You have shown to be so great and necessary for salvation, that I may overcome my very evil nature that is drawing me to sin and perdition. For I feel in my…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    There are many ways of promoting Christian wakefulness. Among the rest, let me strongly advise Christians to converse together concerning the ways of the Lord. Christian and Hopeful, as they journeyed towards the Celestial City, said to themselves, “To prevent drowsiness in this place, let us fall into good discourse.” Christian enquired, “Brother, where shall…

  • A PRAYER FOR GUIDANCE

    Connect The TestamentsNumbers 3:40-49; John 12:20-50; Psalm 5:1-12 When we feel downtrodden, it’s easy to lash out at those around us. Too often, caught in the injustice of our circumstances, we might begin to feel an unhealthy amount of self-justification. It’s difficult to see where the lines of right and wrong fall when anger and…

  • THE DIFFERENT MOTIONS OF NATURE AND GRACE

    Imitation of Christ THE VOICE OF CHRIST MY CHILD, pay careful attention to the movements of nature and of grace, for they move in very contrary and subtle ways, and can scarcely be distinguished by anyone except a man who is spiritual and inwardly enlightened. All men, indeed, desire what is good, and strive for…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    If none of God’s saints were poor and tried, we should not know half so well the consolations of divine grace. When we find the wanderer who has not where to lay his head, who yet can say, “Still will I trust in the Lord;” when we see the pauper starving on bread and water,…

  • IT MAY SEEM BLAND

    Connect The TestamentsNumbers 3:1-39; John 12:1-19; Psalm 3-4 Let’s just admit it: genealogies and lists, like the one in Num 3:1–39, are the most boring elements of the Bible. But they do something for us that other formats cannot—they give us a sense of history and lineage. With a genealogy, we can do more than…

  • GOD’S GRACE IS NOT GIVEN TO THE EARTHLY MINDED

    Imitation of Christ THE VOICE OF CHRIST MY CHILD, my grace is precious. It does not allow itself to be mixed with external things or with earthly consolations. Cast away all obstacles to grace, therefore, if you wish to receive its infusion. Seek to retire within yourself. Love to dwell alone with yourself. Seek no…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Comfort thyself, tried believer, with this thought: God saith, “I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.” Does not the word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the flame? Yea, is it not an asbestos armour, against which the heat hath no power? Let affliction come—God has chosen me. Poverty, thou…

  • A BOLD GOD, AND A BOLD PEOPLE

    Connect The TestamentsNumbers 1:1-46; John 11:1-27; Psalms 1:1-6 Imagine a God so bold that He would say, “Take a census of the entire community of the children of Israel according to their clans and their ancestors’ house … from twenty years old and above, everyone in Israel who is able to go to war. You…

  • A MAN NOT OUGHT TO CONSIDER HIMSELF WORTHY OF CONSOLATION, BUT RATHER DESERVING OF CHASTISEMENT

    Imitation of Christ THE DISCIPLE LORD, I am not worthy of Your consolation or of any spiritual visitation. Therefore, You treat me justly when You leave me poor and desolate. For though I could shed a sea of tears, yet I should not be worthy of Your consolation. Hence, I deserve only to be scourged…