Tag: Devotional

  • HIS TEMPTATION AND OURS

    My Utmost For His Highest For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Hebrews 4:15. Until we are born again, the only kind of temptation we understand is that mentioned by St. James—“Every…

  • NEAR TO THE HEART OF GOD

    Words and Music by Cleland B. McAfee, 1866–1944 When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought joy. (Psalm 94:19) O Thou who dry’st the mourner’s tears! How dark this world would be,If, when deceived and wounded here, we could not fly to Thee.— Thomas Moore Life is often filled with unexpected problems or crises.…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    The two most important things in our holy religion are the life of faith and the walk of faith. He who shall rightly understand these is not far from being a master in experimental theology, for they are vital points to a Christian. You will never find true faith unattended by true godliness; on the…

  • WHAT’S THE GOOD OF TEMPTATION?

    My Utmost For His Highest There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man. 1 Cor. 10:13. The word ‘temptation’ has come down in the world; we are apt to use it wrongly: Temptation is not sin, it is the thing we are bound to meet if we are men. Not…

  • HALLELUJAH, WHAT A SAVIOR!

    Words and Music by Philip P. Bliss, 1838–1876 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering … He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. (Isaiah 53:3) A life of praise is not something that can be worked up. Rather, it is a remembrance and a response to…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Despairingly the poor disappointed father turned away from the disciples to their Master. His son was in the worst possible condition, and all means had failed, but the miserable child was soon delivered from the evil one when the parent in faith obeyed the Lord Jesus’ word, “Bring him unto me.” Children are a precious…

  • THE DIVINE REGION OF RELIGION

    My Utmost For His Highest But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret. Matthew 6:6. The main idea in the region of religion is—Your eyes upon God, not on men. Do not have as your motive the desire to…

  • HIS MATCHLESS WORTH

    Samuel Medley, 1738–1799 Whom have I in heaven but You? And earth has nothing I desire besides You. (Psalm 73:25) The distinctiveness of the Christian faith is that it focuses all of its teachings and emphasis on a single person, Jesus Christ—the God-man. All that we really know about our heavenly Father is learned from…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    To be a partaker of the divine nature is not, of course, to become God. That cannot be. The essence of Deity is not to be participated in by the creature. Between the creature and the Creator there must ever be a gulf fixed in respect of essence; but as the first man Adam was…

  • WHAT TO RENOUNCE

    My Utmost For His Highest But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. 2 Cor. 4:2. Have you “renounced the hidden things of dishonesty”—the things that your sense of honour will not allow to come to the light? You can easily hide them. Is there a thought in your heart about anyone which you would…