Category: My Utmost For His Highest

  • DISPOSITION AND DEEDS

    My Utmost For His Highest Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:20. The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in motive because he has been made good…

  • SANCTIFICATION

    Of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us … sanctification. 1 Cor. 1:30. The Life Side. The mystery of sanctification is that the perfections of Jesus Christ are imparted to me, not gradually, but instantly when by faith I enter into the realization that Jesus Christ is made unto…

  • SANCTIFICATION

    My Utmost For His Highest This is the will of God, even your sanctification. 1 Thess. 4:3. The Death Side. In sanctification God has to deal with us on the death side as well as on the life side. Many of us spend so much time in the place of death that we get sepulchral.…

  • THE GATEWAY TO THE KINGDOM

    My Utmost For His Highest Blessed are the poor in spirit. Matthew 5:3. Beware of placing Our Lord as a Teacher first. If Jesus Christ is a Teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize me by erecting a standard I cannot attain. What is the use of presenting me with an ideal…

  • DEPENDENT ON GOD’S PRESENCE

    My Utmost For His Highest They that wait upon the Lord … shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31. There is no thrill in walking; it is the test of all the stable qualities. To “walk and not faint” is the highest reach possible for strength. The word “walk” is used in the Bible to…

  • MASTERY OVER THE BELIEVER

    My Utmost For His Highest Ye call Me Master and Lord; and ye say well; for so I am. John 13:13. Our Lord never insists on having authority; He never says—‘Thou shalt.’ He leaves us perfectly free—so free that we can spit in His face, as men did; so free that we can put Him…

  • THE MYSTERY OF BELIEVING

    My Utmost For His Highest And he said, Who art Thou, Lord? Acts 9:5. By the miracle of Redemption Saul of Tarsus was turned in one second from a strong-willed, intense Pharisee into a humble, devoted slave of the Lord Jesus. There is nothing miraculous about the things we can explain. We command what we…

  • THE MIRACLE OF BELIEF

    My Utmost For His Highest My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words. 1 Cor. 2:1–5 . Paul was a scholar and an orator of the first rank; he is not speaking out of abject humility, but saying that he would veil the power of God if, when he preached the gospel, he…

  • THE NOTION OF DIVINE CONTROL

    My Utmost For His Highest How much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him? Matthew 7:11. Jesus is laying down rules of conduct for those who have His Spirit. By the simple argument of these verses He urges us to keep our minds filled with the…

  • THE POINT OF SPIRITUAL HONOR

    My Utmost For His Highest I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the barbarians. Romans 1:14 Paul was overwhelmed with the sense of his indebtedness to Jesus Christ, and he spent himself to express it. The great inspiration in Paul’s life was his view of Jesus Christ as his spiritual creditor. Do I…