Tag: Devotional

  • MORNING & EVENING

    The hill of comfort is the hill of Calvary; the house of consolation is built with the wood of the cross; the temple of heavenly blessing is founded upon the riven rock—riven by the spear which pierced his side. No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like Calvary’s tragedy. Light springs from the…

  • HAVE I SEEN HIM?

    My Utmost For His Highest After that He appeared in another form unto two of them. Mark 16:12. Being saved and seeing Jesus are not the same thing. Many are partakers of God’s grace who have never seen Jesus. When once you have seen Jesus, you can never be the same, other things do not…

  • THE OLD RUGGED CROSS

    Amazing Grace Words and Music by George Bennard, 1873–1958 He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by His wounds you have been healed. (1 Peter 2:24) The author and composer of this beloved hymn, George Bennard, began his Christian ministry…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Amid the rabble rout which hounded the Redeemer to his doom, there were some gracious souls whose bitter anguish sought vent in wailing and lamentations—fit music to accompany that march of woe. When my soul can, in imagination, see the Saviour bearing his cross to Calvary, she joins the godly women and weeps with them;…

  • HIS RESURRECTION DESTINY

    Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory? Luke 24:26. Our Lord’s Cross is the gateway into His life: His Resurrection means that He has power now to convey His life to me. When I am born again from above, I receive from the risen Lord His very life.…

  • AT CALVARY

    Amazing Grace William R. Newell, 1868–1956 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. (Ephesians 1:7, 8) Calvary, meaning “the place of the skull,” is a place that everyone has heard about and…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Among other interpretations of this suggestive question, the following is full of teaching: “If the innocent substitute for sinners, suffer thus, what will be done when the sinner himself—the dry tree—shall fall into the hands of an angry God?” When God saw Jesus in the sinner’s place, he did not spare him; and when he…

  • WHY ARE WE NOT TOLD PLAINLY

    My Utmost For His Highest He charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead. Mark 9:9. Say nothing until the Son of man is risen in you—until the life of the risen Christ so dominates you that you understand what…

  • BLESSED REDEEMER

    Avis B. Christiansen, 1895–1985 When they came to the place called the Skull, there they crucified Him, along with the criminals—one on His right, the other on His left. (Luke 23:33) A Hill with Three Crosses—One cross where a thief died IN SINOne cross where a thief died TO SINA center cross where a Redeemer…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    An instructive writer has made a mournful list of the honours which the blinded people of Israel awarded to their long expected King. Evening In this SOLEMN CONFESSION, it is pleasing to observe that David plainly names his sin. He does not call it manslaughter, nor speak of it as an imprudence by which an…