Category: My Utmost For His Highest

  • TAKE THE INITIATIVE

    My Utmost For His Highest Add to your faith virtue … (“Furnish your faith with resolution.”) (MOFFATT) 2 Peter 1:5. “Add” means there is something we have to do. We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot save…

  • THE PATIENCE OF FAITH

    My Utmost For His Highest Because thou hast kept the word of My patience. Rev. 3:10. Patience is more than endurance. A saint’s life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains,…

  • BUILDING FOR ETERNITY

    My Utmost For His Highest For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Luke 14:28. Our Lord refers not to a cost we have to count, but to a cost which He has counted. The cost was those thirty…

  • LIBERTY ON THE ABYSS OF THE GOSPEL

    My Utmost For His Highest Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free. Gal. 5:1. A spiritually minded man will never come to you with the demand—‘Believe this and that’; but with the demand that you square your life with the standards of Jesus. We are not asked to believe the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • THE PASSION OF PATIENCE

    My Utmost For His Highest Though it tarry, wait for it. Hab. 2:3. Patience is not indifference; patience conveys the idea of an immensely strong rock withstanding all onslaughts. The vision of God is the source of patience, because it imparts a moral inspiration. Moses endured, not because he had an ideal of right and…

  • INSIGHT NOT EMOTION

    My Utmost For His Highest I have to lead my life in faith, without seeing Him. 2 Cor. 5:7. (Moffatt.) For a time we are conscious of God’s attentions, then, when God begins to use us in His enterprises, we take on a pathetic look and talk of the trials and the difficulties, and all…

  • THE SPONTANEITY OF LOVE

    My Utmost For His Highest Love suffereth long, and is kind … 1 Cor. 13:4–8 . Love is not premeditated, it is spontaneous, that is, it bursts up in extraordinary ways. There is nothing of mathematical certainty in Paul’s category of love. We cannot say—‘Now I am going to think no evil; I am going…