Tag: Devotional

  • MORNING & EVENING

    It is strange how little use we make of the spiritual blessings which God gives us, but it is stranger still how little use we make of God himself. Though he is “our own God,” we apply ourselves but little to him, and ask but little of him. How seldom do we ask counsel at…

  • THE SUPREME CLIMB

    My Utmost For His Highest Take now thy son, … and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. Genesis 22:2. Character determines how a man interprets God’s will (cf. Psalm 18:25–26 ). Abraham interpreted God’s command to mean that he had to kill his son,…

  • BECAUSE HE LIVES

    Amazing Grace Gloria Gaither, 1942–William J. Gaither, 1936– Because I live, you also will live. (John 14:19) Christ’s resurrection is our guarantee of at least two basic truths: First, He has the power to give His life to us and to bring us ultimately to glory to reign with Him forever. And second, His resurrection…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    It seems then, that Christians may forget Christ! There could be no need for this loving exhortation, if there were not a fearful supposition that our memories might prove treacherous. Nor is this a bare supposition: it is, alas! too well confirmed in our experience, not as a possibility, but as a lamentable fact. It…

  • INSTANT IN SEASON

    My Utmost For His Highest Be instant in season, out of season. 2 Tim. 4:2. Many of us suffer from the morbid tendency to be instant “out of season.” The season does not refer to time, but to us. “Be instant in season, out of season,” whether we feel like it or not. If we…

  • HE LIVES

    Amazing Grace Alfred H. Ackley, 1887–1960 He is not here; He has risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay. (Matthew 28:6) “Why should I worship a dead Jew?” This challenging question was posed by a sincere young Jewish student who had been attending evangelistic meetings conducted by the author…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Lo, I hear the voice of my Beloved! He speaks to me! Fair weather is smiling upon the face of the earth, and he would not have me spiritually asleep while nature is all around me awaking from her winter’s rest. He bids me “Rise up,” and well he may, for I have long enough…

  • THE WARNING AGAINST WONTONING

    My Utmost For His Highest Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you. Luke 10:20. As Christian workers, worldliness is not our snare, sin is not our snare, but spiritual wantoning is, viz.: taking the pattern and print of the religious age we live in, making eyes at spiritual success. Never…

  • CHRIST AROSE

    Amazing Grace Robert Lowry, 1826–1899 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over Him. (Romans 6:8, 9) “Alleluia, He is Risen!” “Alleluia, He is Risen Indeed!” If…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    There are many occasions in our experience when we may very rightly, and with benefit, renew our covenant with God. After recovery from sickness when, like Hezekiah, we have had a new term of years added to our life, we may fitly do it. After any deliverance from trouble, when our joys bud forth anew,…