Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • MORNING & EVENING

    What is meant by our being citizens in heaven? It means that we are under heaven’s government. Christ the king of heaven reigns in our hearts; our daily prayer is, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” The proclamations issued from the throne of glory are freely received by us: the…

  • THE GREAT PROBING

    My Utmost For His Highest Ye cannot serve the Lord. Joshua 24:19. Have you the slightest reliance on any thing other than God? Is there a remnant of reliance left on any natural virtue, any set of circumstances? Are you relying on yourself in any particular in this new proposition which God has put before…

  • DOES JESUS CARE?

    Frank E. Graeff, 1860–1919 And surely I will be with you always, to the very end of the age. (Matthew 28:20) God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pain.— C. S. Lewis Frank E. Graeff, author of this hymn text, knew what it was to wonder, as most of God’s children do at…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    It is a delightful and profitable occupation to mark the hand of God in the lives of ancient saints, and to observe his goodness in delivering them, his mercy in pardoning them, and his faithfulness in keeping his covenant with them. But would it not be even more interesting and profitable for us to remark…

  • THE WILL TO LOYALTY

    My Utmost For His Highest Choose you this day whom ye will serve. Joshua 24:15. Will is the whole man active. I cannot give up my will, I must exercise it. I must will to obey, and I must will to receive God’s Spirit. When God gives a vision of truth it is never a…

  • COME, YE DISCONSOLATE

    Thomas Moore, 1779–1852, (verses 1 and 2 with alterations)Thomas Hastings, 1784–1872, (verse 3) You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:13) God’s delight is to administer comfort to wounded spirits.— Unknown Repeating the plea to “come” and the plaintive promise that “earth has no sorrow that…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Where lies the secret strength of faith? It lies in the food it feeds on; for faith studies what the promise is—an emanation of divine grace, an overflowing of the great heart of God; and faith says, “My God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain…

  • VISION AND REALITY

    My Utmost For His Highest And the parched ground shall become a pool. Isaiah 35:7. We always have visions before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt…

  • SWEET PEACE, THE GIFT OF GOD’S LOVE

    Words and Music by Peter P. Bilhorn, 1865–1936 Great peace have they who love Your law, and nothing can make them stumble. (Psalm 119:165) The blessing of peace is the one prize that often eludes those who seem to have attained everything else in life. Yet peace is one of the choice gifts left to…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Divine love is rendered conspicuous when it shines in the midst of judgments. Fair is that lone star which smiles through the rifts of the thunder clouds; bright is the oasis which blooms in the wilderness of sand; so fair and so bright is love in the midst of wrath. When the Israelites provoked the…