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I’VE GOT PEACE LIKE A RIVER
Spiritual The Lord gives strength to His people; the Lord blesses His people with peace. (Psalm 29:11) Not merely in the words you say,Not merely in your deeds confessed,But in the most unconscious wayIs Christ expressed. And from your eyes He beckons me,And from your heart His love is shed,Till I lose sight of you…
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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…
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I KNOW I’LL SEE JESUS SOME DAY
Avis B. Christiansen, 1895–1985 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. (Colossians 3:4) Lord, we wait for Thine appearing;“Even so,” Thy people say;Bright the prospect is, and cheering,Of beholding Thee that day.— Thomas Kelly Heaven is not an invention of the human imagination. It is as…
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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…
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MORNING & EVENING
“Nevertheless,”—As if, notwithstanding all the foolishness and ignorance which David had just been confessing to God, not one atom the less was it true and certain that David was saved and accepted, and that the blessing of being constantly in God’s presence was undoubtedly his. Fully conscious of his own lost estate, and of the…
