Tag: Devotional

  • IN THE GARDEN

    Amazing Grace C. Austin Miles, 1868–1945 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that He had said these things to her. (John 20:18) It was in 1912 that music publisher Dr. Adam Geibel asked author and composer C. Austin Miles to write a hymn…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Myrrh may well be chosen as the type of Jesus on account of its preciousness, its perfume, its pleasantness, its healing, preserving, disinfecting qualities, and its connection with sacrifice. But why is he compared to “a bundle of myrrh”? First, for plenty. He is not a drop of it, he is a casket full. He…

  • MORAL DOMINION

    My Utmost For His Highest Death hath no more dominion over Him … in that He liveth, He liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God. Romans 6:9–11 . Co-Eternal Life. Eternal life was the life which Jesus Christ exhibited on the human plane, and…

  • THERE IS A FOUNTAIN

    Amazing Grace William Cowper, 1731–1800 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2:13) William Cowper is viewed by some as one of the finest of all English writers. But Cowper’s emotional life was one of great turmoil. At an early age…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Our blessed Lord experienced a terrible sinking and melting of soul. “The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit who can bear?” Deep depression of spirit is the most grievous of all trials; all besides is as nothing. Well might the suffering Saviour cry to his God, “Be not far…

  • MORAL DIVINITY

    My Utmost To His Highest For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection. Romans 6:5. Co-Resurrection. The proof that I have been through crucifixion with Jesus is that I have a decided likeness to Him. The incoming of the Spirit…

  • ROCK OF AGES

    Amazing Grace Augustus M. Toplady, 1740–1778 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea … they all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Did earth or heaven ever behold a sadder spectacle of woe! In soul and body, our Lord felt himself to be weak as water poured upon the ground. The placing of the cross in its socket had shaken him with great violence, had strained all the ligaments, pained every nerve, and more or less dislocated…

  • MORAL DECISION ABOUT SIN

    My Utmost For His Highest Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Romans 6:6. Co-Crucifixion. Have I made this decision about sin—that it must be killed right out in me? It takes a long time to come…

  • O SACRED HEAD NOW WOUNDED

    Amazing Grace Attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux, 1091–1153Translated into German by Paul Gerhardt, 1607–1676Translated into English by James W. Alexander, 1804–1859 And when they had plaited a crown of thorns, they put it upon His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they bowed the knee before Him, and mocked Him, saying, “Hail,…