Tag: Devotional

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Brotherly kindness was due from Edom to Israel in the time of need, but instead thereof, the men of Esau made common cause with Israel’s foes. Special stress in the sentence before us is laid upon the word thou; as when Caesar cried to Brutus, “and thou Brutus”; a bad action may be all the…

  • SANCTIFICATION

    My Utmost For His Highest This is the will of God, even your sanctification. 1 Thess. 4:3. The Death Side. In sanctification God has to deal with us on the death side as well as on the life side. Many of us spend so much time in the place of death that we get sepulchral.…

  • A CHILD OF THE KING

    Harriett E. Buell, 1834–1910 We are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in His sufferings in order that we may also share in His glory. (Romans 8:16, 17) As children of the heavenly kingdom, we should learn to enjoy and…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Christ Jesus is joined unto his people in marriage-union. In love he espoused his Church as a chaste virgin, long before she fell under the yoke of bondage. Full of burning affection he toiled, like Jacob for Rachel, until the whole of her purchase-money had been paid, and now, having sought her by his Spirit,…

  • THE GATEWAY TO THE KINGDOM

    My Utmost For His Highest Blessed are the poor in spirit. Matthew 5:3. Beware of placing Our Lord as a Teacher first. If Jesus Christ is a Teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize me by erecting a standard I cannot attain. What is the use of presenting me with an ideal…

  • ‘TIS SO SWEET TO TRUST IN JESUS

    Louisa M. R. Stead, c. 1850–1917 That we should be to the praise of His glory, who first trusted in Christ. (Ephesians 1:12 KJV) Out of one of the darkest hours of her life—the tragic drowning of her husband—a young mother proclaimed through her tears, “ ’Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus … and I…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Reassured by the Word of the Lord, the poor trembling citizens of Zion grew bold, and shook their heads at Sennacherib’s boastful threats. Strong faith enables the servants of God to look with calm contempt upon their most haughty foes. We know that our enemies are attempting impossibilities. They seek to destroy the eternal life,…

  • DEPENDENT ON GOD’S PRESENCE

    My Utmost For His Highest They that wait upon the Lord … shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31. There is no thrill in walking; it is the test of all the stable qualities. To “walk and not faint” is the highest reach possible for strength. The word “walk” is used in the Bible to…

  • SWEETLY RESTING

    Mary D. James, 1810–1883 For in the day of trouble He will keep me safe in His dwelling; He will hide me in the shelter of His tabernacle and set me high upon a rock. (Psalm 27:5) Once my hands were always trying,Trying hard to do my best;Now my heart is sweetly trusting,And my soul…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Oh! what enlightenment, what joys, what consolation, what delight of heart is experienced by that man who has learned to feed on Jesus, and on Jesus alone. Yet the realization which we have of Christ’s preciousness is, in this life, imperfect at the best. As an old writer says, “’Tis but a taste!” We have…