Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • THE NOTION OF DIVINE CONTROL

    My Utmost For His Highest How much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him? Matthew 7:11. Jesus is laying down rules of conduct for those who have His Spirit. By the simple argument of these verses He urges us to keep our minds filled with the…

  • JESUS NEVER FAILS

    Words and Music by Arthur A. Luther, 1891–1960 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. (Matthew 24:35) Just when my hopes have vanished, just when my friends forsake,Just when the fight is thickest, just when with fear I shake,Then comes a still small whisper, “Fear not my child, I’m…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Labour to maintain a sense of thine entire dependence upon the Lord’s good will and pleasure for the continuance of thy richest enjoyments. Never try to live on the old manna, nor seek to find help in Egypt. All must come from Jesus, or thou art undone for ever. Old anointings will not suffice to…

  • THE POINT OF SPIRITUAL HONOR

    My Utmost For His Highest I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the barbarians. Romans 1:14 Paul was overwhelmed with the sense of his indebtedness to Jesus Christ, and he spent himself to express it. The great inspiration in Paul’s life was his view of Jesus Christ as his spiritual creditor. Do I…

  • HE HIDETH MY SOUL

    Fanny J. Crosby, 1820–1915 I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand. (Exodus 33:22) The beloved blind American poet Fanny Jane Crosby did not begin writing gospel texts until her mid-forties. But from then on, inspiring words seemed to flow constantly from her heart, and she became…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Keep the altar of private prayer burning. This is the very life of all piety. The sanctuary and family altars borrow their fires here, therefore let this burn well. Secret devotion is the very essence, evidence, and barometer, of vital and experimental religion. Burn here the fat of your sacrifices. Let your closet seasons be,…

  • FROM EVERY STORMY WIND THAT BLOWS

    Hugh Stowell, 1799–1865 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you … (Isaiah 43:2) God sometimes shuts the door and shuts us in,That He may speak, perchance through grief or pain;And softly, heart to heart, above the dinMay teach some precious truth to us again.— Unknown In Old Testament worship, the mercy…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    God’s altar was to be built of unhewn stones, that no trace of human skill or labour might be seen upon it. Human wisdom delights to trim and arrange the doctrines of the cross into a system more artificial and more congenial with the depraved tastes of fallen nature; instead, however, of improving the gospel…

  • THE PRICE OF VISION

    My Utmost For His Highest In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord. Isaiah 6:1. Our soul’s history with God is frequently the history of the “passing of the hero.” Over and over again God has to remove our friends in order to bring Himself in their place, and that is…