Tag: Devotional

  • O HAPPY DAY

    Philip Doddridge, 1702–1751 I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For He has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness. (Isaiah 61:10) It is always encouraging to share in a testimonial service by recalling with other believers the time we responded to God’s…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Our knowledge of Christ is somewhat like climbing one of our Welsh mountains. When you are at the base you see but little: the mountain itself appears to be but one-half as high as it really is. Confined in a little valley, you discover scarcely anything but the rippling brooks as they descend into the…

  • RECONCILING ONESELF TO THE FACT OF SIN

    My Utmost For His Highest This is your hour, and the power of darkness. Luke 22:53. It is not being reconciled to the fact of sin that produces all the disasters in life. You may talk about the nobility of human nature, but there is something in human nature which will laugh in the face…

  • SATISFIED

    Clara Tear Williams, 1858–1937 For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things. (Psalm 107:9) The lie of the secularist is the notion that contentment in life is dependent upon material possessions. The going expression is “if I only had just a little more.” One of the important lessons that we should…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    It is fondly imagined by some that it must have involved very special privileges to have been the mother of our Lord, because they supposed that she had the benefit of looking into his very heart in a way in which we cannot hope to do. There may be an appearance of plausibility in the…

  • ACQUAINTANCE WITH GRIEF

    My Utmost For His Highest A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isaiah 53:3. We are not acquainted with grief in the way in which Our Lord was acquainted with it; we endure it, we get through it, but we do not become intimate with it. At the beginning of life we do not…

  • I’D RATHER HAVE JESUS

    Mrs. Rhea F. Miller, 1894–1966 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. (Philippians 1:21) The inspiring and challenging words of this hymn, written by Mrs. Rhea Miller, so influenced 23–year-old George Beverly Shea that they determined the direction of his entire life. As he began to compose a melody for…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    A cake not turned is uncooked on one side; and so Ephraim was, in many respects, untouched by divine grace: though there was some partial obedience, there was very much rebellion left. My soul, I charge thee, see whether this be thy case. Art thou thorough in the things of God? Has grace gone through…

  • THE UNDEVIATING TEST

    My Utmost For His Highest For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Matthew 7:2. This statement is not a haphazard guess, it is an eternal law of God. Whatever judgment you give, it is measured to you again. There…

  • IN JESUS

    James Procter, dates unknown The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” (Psalm 14:1) This song is the testimonial hymn of an avowed atheist who led others in a vain search for the true meaning of life before finding his answer in Jesus. James Proctor grew up in a Christian home and attended…