Tag: Devotional

  • WE’RE MARCHING TO ZION

    Isaac Watts, 1674–1748 You have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. (Hebrews 12:22) Should we sing psalms or hymns in our church services? This was the controversy stirring many congregations during the 17th and 18th centuries. Isaac Watts was the life-long champion of the “humanly composed” hymn…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    He never deserted them, but they in cowardly fear of their lives, fled from him in the very beginning of his sufferings. This is but one instructive instance of the frailty of all believers if left to themselves; they are but sheep at the best, and they flee when the wolf cometh. They had all…

  • VISION BY PERSONAL PURITY

    My Utmost For His Highest Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God. Matthew 5:8. Purity is not innocence, it is much more. Purity is the outcome of sustained spiritual sympathy with God. We have to grow in purity. The life with God may be right and the inner purity remain unsullied,…

  • WE ARE CLIMBING JACOB’S LADDER

    Amazing Grace Negro Spiritual He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. (Genesis 28:12) This delightful children’s song was inspired by the account of Jacob’s dream at Bethel as recorded in Genesis 28:10–22.…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Mark, my soul, the care which Jesus manifested even in his hour of trial, towards the sheep of his hand! The ruling passion is strong in death. He resigns himself to the enemy, but he interposes a word of power to set his disciples free. As to himself, like a sheep before her shearers he…

  • THE MOST DELICATE MISSION ON EARTH

    My Utmost For His Highest The friend of the Bridegroom. John 3:29. Goodness and purity ought never to attract attention to themselves, they ought simply to be magnets to draw to Jesus Christ. If my holiness is not drawing towards Him, it is not holiness of the right order, but an influence that will awaken…

  • WHEN HE COMETH

    Amazing Grace William O. Cushing, 1823–1902 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. (Colossians 3:4) The scriptural promise of Christ’s second coming is always a thrilling truth for believers to ponder. Beyond that, the thought of the Savior creating a jeweled crown from little children who…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    “The kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss. Whenever a man is about to stab religion, he usually professes very great reverence for it. Let me beware…

  • DECREASING INTO HIS PURPOSE

    He must increase, but I must decrease. John 3:30. If you become a necessity to a soul, you are out of God’s order. As a worker, your great responsibility is to be a friend of the Bridegroom. When once you see a soul in sight of the claims of Jesus Christ, you know that your…

  • LET THE LOWER LIGHTS BE BURNING

    Amazing Grace Words and Music by Philip P. Bliss, 1838–1876 Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. (Matthew 5:16) I do not ask for mighty words to leave the crowd impressed,But grant my life may ring so true my neighbors shall be blessed.I…