Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • GOD FIRST

    My Utmost For His Highest Put God First in Trust. Jesus did not commit Himself unto them, … for He knew what was in man. John 2:24–25 . Our Lord trusted no man; yet He was never suspicious, never bitter, never in despair about any man because He put God first in trust; He trusted…

  • MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE

    Amazing Grace Samuel Francis Smith, 1808–1895 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He chose for His inheritance. (Psalm 33:12) Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.— William Penn Moved deeply by the desire to create a national hymn that would allow the American people…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    David passed that gloomy brook when flying with his mourning company from his traitor son. The man after God’s own heart was not exempt from trouble, nay, his life was full of it. He was both the Lord’s Anointed, and the Lord’s Afflicted. Why then should we expect to escape? At sorrow’s gates the noblest…

  • Yes – But …!

    My Utmost For His Highest Lord, I will follow Thee; but … Luke 9:61. Supposing God tells you to do something which is an enormous test to your common sense, what are you going to do? Hang back? If you get into the habit of doing a thing in the physical domain, you will do…

  • BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC

    Amazing Grace Julia Ward Howe, 1819–1910 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. (Psalm 20:7) To have implicit trust in God’s faithful care and protection is never easy in times of danger or strife. Yet even in the midst of the terrible Civil…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ, that he will hold no comfortable fellowship and…

  • UNDISTURBED RELATIONSHIP

    My Utmost For His Highest At that day ye shall ask in My name … The Father Himself loveth you. John 16:26, 27. “At that day ye shall ask in My name,” i.e., in My nature. Not—‘You shall use My name as a magic word,’ but—‘You will be so intimate with Me that you will…

  • AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

    Amazing Grace Katharine Lee Bates, 1859–1929 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. (Proverbs 14:34) After what I owe to God, nothing should be more dear or more sacred to me than the love and respect I owe to my country.— Jacques Auguste de Thou Each time we join together…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    “Be ye angry, and sin not.” There can hardly be goodness in a man if he be not angry at sin; he who loves truth must hate every false way. How our Lord Jesus hated it when the temptation came! Thrice it assailed him in different forms, but ever he met it with, “Get thee…

  • UNQUESTIONED REVELATION

    My Utmost For His Highest And in that day ye shall ask Me nothing. John 16:23. When is “that day”? When the Ascended Lord makes you one with the Father. In that day you will be one with the Father as Jesus is, and “in that day,” Jesus says, “ye shall ask Me nothing.” Until…