Category: My Utmost For His Highest

  • THE BAFFLING CALL OF GOD

    My Utmost For His Highest And all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.… And they understood none of these things. Luke 18:31, 34. God called Jesus Christ to what seemed unmitigated disaster. Jesus Christ called His disciples to see Him put to death; He led every…

  • THE BIG COMPELLING OF GOD

    My Utmost For His Highest Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. Luke 18:31. Jerusalem stands in the life of Our Lord as the place where He reached the climax of His Father’s will. “I seek not Mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent Me.” That was the one dominating interest…

  • THE DISCIPLINE OF DIFFICULTY

    My Utmost For His Highest In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33. An average view of the Christian life is that it means deliverance from trouble. It is deliverance in trouble, which is very different. “He that dwelleth in the secret place of…

  • SOMETHING MORE ABOUT HIS WAYS

    My Utmost For His Highest He comes where He commands us to leave. When Jesus had made an end of commanding His disciples, He departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities. Matthew 11:1. If when God said ‘Go,’ you stayed, because you were so concerned about your people at home, you robbed…

  • TILL YOU ARE ENTIRELY HIS

    My Utmost For His Highest Let your endurance be a finished product, so that you may be finished and complete, with never a defect. James 1:4 (Moffatt). Many of us are all right in the main, but there are some domains in which we are slovenly. It is not a question of sin, but of…

  • THE DISCIPLINE OF DISILLUSIONMENT

    My Utmost For His Highest Jesus did not commit Himself unto them … for He knew what was in man. John 2:24–25 . Disillusionment means that there are no more false judgments in life. To be undeceived by disillusionment may leave us cynical and unkindly severe in our judgment of others, but the disillusionment which…

  • WHAT DO YOU SEE IN YOUR CLOUDS?

    My Utmost For His Highest Behold, He cometh with clouds. Rev. 1:7. In the Bible clouds are always connected with God. Clouds are those sorrows or sufferings or providences, within or without our personal lives, which seem to dispute the rule of God. It is by those very clouds that the Spirit of God is…

  • AFTER OBEDIENCE – WHAT?

    My Utmost For His Highest And straightway He constrained His disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side.… Mark 6:45–52 . We are apt to imagine that if Jesus Christ constrains us, and we obey Him, He will lead us to great success. We must never put our dreams of…

  • THE WAY TO KNOW

    My Utmost For His Highest If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine … John 7:17. The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can…

  • AM I BLESSED LIKE THIS?

    My Utmost For His Highest Blessed are … Matthew 5:3–10 . When we first read the statements of Jesus they seem wonderfully simple and unstartling, and they sink unobserved into our unconscious minds. For instance, the Beatitudes seem merely mild and beautiful precepts for all unworldly and useless people, but of very little practical use…