Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • VISION & 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…

  • LIKE A RIVER GLORIOUS

    Frances R. Havergal, 1836–1879 If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your righteousness like the waves of the sea. (Isaiah 48:18) Our gift of salvation includes more than pardon from sin, deliverance from hell, and a guarantee to heaven. It includes everything we need 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…

  • DON’T CALCULATE WITHOUT GOD

    My Utmost For His Highest Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass. Psalm 37:5. Don’t calculate without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not…

  • PEACE, PERFECT PEACE

    Edward H. Bickersteth, 1825–1906 I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. (John 16:33) The quest for inner calm and peace has been a universal struggle for mankind throughout the ages. Even for those…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    We are very apt to regard the apostolic saints as if they were “saints” in a more especial manner than the other children of God. All are “saints” whom God has called by His grace, and sanctified by His Spirit; but we are apt to look upon the apostles as extraordinary beings, scarcely subject to…

  • ONE OF GOD’S GREAT DON’TS

    My Utmost For His Highest Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil doing. Psalm 37:8 (R.V.). Fretting means getting out at elbows mentally or spiritually. It is one thing to say ‘Fret not,’ but a very different thing to have such a disposition that you find yourself able not to fret. It sounds so…

  • THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

    Francis Scott Key, 1779–1843 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: Whether it be to the king, as supreme, or to governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. (1 Peter 2:13, 14 KJV) During the…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Sanctification begins in regeneration. The Spirit of God infuses into man that new living principle by which he becomes “a new creature” in Christ Jesus. This work, which begins in the new birth, is carried on in two ways—mortification, whereby the lusts of the flesh are subdued and kept under; and vivification, by which the…

  • THE CONCENTRATION OF PERSONAL SIN

    My Utmost For His Highest Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips. Isaiah 6:5. When I get into the presence of God, I do not realize that I am a sinner in an indefinite sense; I realize the concentration of sin in a particular feature of my…