Tag: Devotional

  • THE LORD’S MY SHEPHERD

    The superlative beauty of Jesus is all-attracting; it is not so much to be admired as to be loved. He is more than pleasant and fair, he is lovely. Surely the people of God can fully justify the use of this golden word, for he is the object of their warmest love, a love founded…

  • THE RELINQUISHED LIFE

    My Utmost For His Highest I am crucified with Christ. Gal. 2:20. No one is ever united with Jesus Christ until he is willing to relinquish not sin only, but his whole way of looking at things. To be born from above of the Spirit of God means that we must let go before we…

  • SAVIOR, LIKE A SHEPHERD LEAD US

    Amazing Grace Dorothy A. Thrupp, 1779–1847 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you. (Psalm 32:8) Divine guidance is the very essence of Christianity. The Bible equates being guided by the Spirit of God with being a child of God (Romans 8:14).…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    God’s people have their trials. It was never designed by God, when he chose his people, that they should be an untried people. They were chosen in the furnace of affliction; they were never chosen to worldly peace and earthly joy. Freedom from sickness and the pains of mortality was never promised them; but when…

  • UNDAUNTED RADIANCE

    My Utmost For His Highest Nay, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. Romans 8:37. Paul is speaking of the things that might seem likely to separate or wedge in between the saint and the love of God; but the remarkable thing is that nothing can wedge in…

  • BRIGHTEN THE CORNER

    Amazing Grace Ina Duley Ogdon, 1877–? Christ gave Himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for Himself a people that are His very own, eager to do what is good. (Titus 2:14) “Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do … but brighten the corner where you…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Faith is the foot of the soul by which it can march along the road of the commandments. Love can make the feet move more swiftly; but faith is the foot which carries the soul. Faith is the oil enabling the wheels of holy devotion and of earnest piety to move well; and without faith…

  • AMID A CROWD OF PALTRY THINGS

    My Utmost For His Highest … in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses. 2 Cor. 6:4. It takes Almighty grace to take the next step when there is no vision and no spectator—the next step in devotion, the next step in your study, in your reading, in your kitchen; the next step in…

  • NO, NOT ONE!

    Amazing Grace Johnson Oatman, Jr., 1856–1922 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends … (John 15:15) He became poor that we might become rich (James 2:5).He was born that we might be born again (John 1:14).He became a servant that we…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Regeneration is a subject which lies at the very basis of salvation, and we should be very diligent to take heed that we really are “born again,” for there are many who fancy they are, who are not. Be assured that the name of a Christian is not the nature of a Christian; and that…