Category: DEVOTIONALS

  • NEAR THE CROSS

    Amazing Grace Fanny J. Crosby, 1820–1915 For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His blood, shed on the cross. (Colossians 1:19, 20) The cross was a superb triumph over…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Jesus, bearing his cross, went forth to suffer without the gate. The Christian’s reason for leaving the camp of the world’s sin and religion is not because he loves to be singular, but because Jesus did so; and the disciple must follow his Master. Christ was “not of the world:” his life and his testimony…

  • HIS AGONY AND OUR FELLOWSHIP

    My Utmost For His Highest Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, … tarry ye here, and watch with Me. Matthew 26:36, 38. We can never fathom the agony in Gethsemane, but at least we need not misunderstand it. It is the agony of God and Man…

  • I GAVE MY LIFE FOR THEE

    Amazing Grace, April 5, 2024 Frances R. Havergal, 1836–1879 And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for Him who died for them and was raised again. (2 Corinthians 5:15) A vivid painting of Christ, wearing His crown of thorns as He stands before Pilate and the…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    We see in Simon’s carrying the cross a picture of the work of the Church throughout all generations; she is the cross-bearer after Jesus. Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Christ exempts…

  • THOSE BORDERS OF DISTRUST

    My Utmost For His Highest Behold, the hour cometh, … that ye shall be scattered. John 16:32. Jesus is not rebuking the disciples, their faith was real, but it was disturbed; it was not at work in actual things. The disciples were scattered to their own interests, alive to interests that never were in Jesus…

  • WOUNDED FOR ME

    Amazing Grace W. G. Ovens, 1870–1945 (verse 1)Gladys W. Roberts, 1888–? (verses 2–5) To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His steps. (1 Peter 2:21) Death by crucifixion was one of the worst forms of dying. No Roman citizen was ever crucified; this…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Mourning Christian! why weepest thou? Art thou mourning over thine own corruptions? Look to thy perfect Lord, and remember, thou art complete in him; thou art in God’s sight as perfect as if thou hadst never sinned; nay, more than that, the Lord our Righteousness hath put a divine garment upon thee, so that thou…

  • IF THOU HAD KNOWN

    My Utmost For His Highest If thou hadst known … in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. Luke 19:42. Jesus had entered into Jerusalem in triumph, the city was stirred to its foundations; but a strange god was there, the pride of Pharisaism;…

  • WHEN I SURVEY THE WONDROUS CROSS

    Amazing Grace Isaac Watts, 1674–1748 Carrying His own cross, He went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). Here they crucified Him. (John 19:17, 18) While preparing for a communion service in 1707, Isaac Watts wrote this deeply moving and very personal expression of gratitude for the amazing love…