Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Do you want a house for your soul? Do you ask, “What is the purchase?” It is something less than proud human nature will like to give. It is without money and without price. Ah! you would like to pay a respectable rent! You would love to do something to win Christ? Then you cannot…

  • JUDGMENT ON THE ABYSS OF LOVE

    My Utmost For His Highest For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God. 1 Peter 4:17. The Christian worker must never forget that salvation is God’s thought, not man’s; therefore it is an unfathomable abyss. Salvation is the great thought of God, not an experience. Experience is only a…

  • FAIREST LORD JESUS

    Text from Münster Gesangbuch, 1677-17274th verse translated by Joseph A. Seiss, 1823–1904 For by Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by Him and for Him. (Colossians 1:16) This lovely hymn extolling the beauty and virtues…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    What a sweet title: “My people!” What a cheering revelation: “Their God!” How much of meaning is couched in those two words, “My people!” Here is speciality. The whole world is God’s; the heaven, even the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s, and he reigneth among the children of men; but of those whom he…

  • VICARIOUS INTERCESSION

    (May 4, 2025) My Utmost For His Highest Vicarious intercession Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. Hebrews 10:19. Beware of imagining that intercession means bringing our personal sympathies into the presence of God and demanding that He does what we ask. Our approach to God is due…

  • JOYFUL, JOYFUL WE ADORE THEE

    (May 4, 2025) Amazing Grace Henry van Dyke, 1852–1933 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy … against such things there is no law. (Galatians 5:22) While gazing at the magnificent Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts, Henry van Dyke described in “Joyful, Joyful,” the many aspects of life that should bring us joy. He…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    (May 4, 2025) One great besetting sin of ancient Israel was idolatry, and the spiritual Israel are vexed with a tendency to the same folly. Remphan’s star shines no longer, and the women weep no more for Tammuz, but Mammon still intrudes his golden calf, and the shrines of pride are not forsaken. Self in…

  • VITAL INTERCESSION

    (May 3, 2025) My Utmost For His Highest Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit. Eph. 6:18. As we go on in intercession we may find that our obedience to God is going to cost other people more than we thought. The danger then is to begin to intercede in sympathy with…

  • ALL CREATURES OF OUR GOD AND KING

    (May 3, 2025) Amazing Grace Francis of Assisi, 1182–1226English Translation by William Draper, 1855–1933 All Thy works shall praise Thee, O Lord; and Thy saints shall bless Thee. They shall speak of the glory of Thy kingdom, and talk of Thy power. (Psalm 145:10, 11) All the magnificent wonders of nature reveal the majesty of…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    (May 3, 2025) Art thou asking the reason of this, believer? Look upward to thy heavenly Father, and behold him pure and holy. Dost thou know that thou art one day to be like him? Wilt thou easily be conformed to his image? Wilt thou not require much refining in the furnace of affliction to…