Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • THOSE BORDERS OF DISTRUST

    My Utmost For His Highest Behold, the hour cometh, … that ye shall be scattered. John 16:32. Jesus is not rebuking the disciples, their faith was real, but it was disturbed; it was not at work in actual things. The disciples were scattered to their own interests, alive to interests that never were in Jesus…

  • WOUNDED FOR ME

    Amazing Grace W. G. Ovens, 1870–1945 (verse 1)Gladys W. Roberts, 1888–? (verses 2–5) To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His steps. (1 Peter 2:21) Death by crucifixion was one of the worst forms of dying. No Roman citizen was ever crucified; this…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Mourning Christian! why weepest thou? Art thou mourning over thine own corruptions? Look to thy perfect Lord, and remember, thou art complete in him; thou art in God’s sight as perfect as if thou hadst never sinned; nay, more than that, the Lord our Righteousness hath put a divine garment upon thee, so that thou…

  • IF THOU HAD KNOWN

    My Utmost For His Highest If thou hadst known … in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. Luke 19:42. Jesus had entered into Jerusalem in triumph, the city was stirred to its foundations; but a strange god was there, the pride of Pharisaism;…

  • WHEN I SURVEY THE WONDROUS CROSS

    Amazing Grace Isaac Watts, 1674–1748 Carrying His own cross, He went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). Here they crucified Him. (John 19:17, 18) While preparing for a communion service in 1707, Isaac Watts wrote this deeply moving and very personal expression of gratitude for the amazing love…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    He had been all night in agony, he had spent the early morning at the hall of Caiaphas, he had been hurried from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate; he had, therefore, but little strength left, and yet neither refreshment nor rest were permitted him. They were…

  • THE GLORY THAT EXCELS

    My Utmost For His Highest The Lord … hath sent me that thou mightest receive thy sight. Acts 9:17. When Paul received his sight he received spiritually an insight into the Person of Jesus Christ, and the whole of his subsequent life and preaching was nothing but Jesus Christ—“I determined not to know anything among…

  • IN THE HOUR OF TRIAL

    Amazing Grace James Montgomery, 1771–1854 No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can stand up to it. (1 Corinthians 10:13)…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    He had never been slow of speech when he could bless the sons of men, but he would not say a single word for himself. “Never man spake like this man,” and never man was silent like him. Was this singular silence the index of his perfect self-sacrifice? Did it show that he would not…

  • HEARTINESS V HEARTLESSNESS TOWARDS OTHERS

    My Utmost For His Highest It is Christ … who also maketh intercession for us … The Spirit … maketh intercession for the saints. Romans 8:34, 27. Do we need any more argument than this to become intercessors—that Christ “ever liveth to make intercession”; that the Holy Spirit “maketh intercession for the saints”? Are we…