Tag: Devotional

  • MORNING & EVENING

    The Israelites in the wilderness were continually exposed to change. Whenever the pillar stayed its motion, the tents were pitched; but tomorrow, ere the morning sun had risen, the trumpet sounded, the ark was in motion, and the fiery, cloudy pillar was leading the way through the narrow defiles of the mountain, up the hill…

  • INFERIOR MISGIVINGS ABOUT JESUS

    My Utmost For His Highest Sir, Thou hast nothing to draw with. John 4:11. ‘I am impressed with the wonder of what God says, but He cannot expect me really to live it out in the details of my life!’ When it comes to facing Jesus Christ on His own merits, our attitude is one…

  • GOD BE WITH YOU

    Amazing Grace Jeremiah E. Rankin, 1828–1904 The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. (Romans 16:20) It is my joy in life to find at every turning of the road,The strong arms of a comrade kind to help me onward with my load.And since I have no gold to give, and love alone can…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Salvation is the work of God. It is he alone who quickens the soul “dead in trespasses and sins,” and it is he also who maintains the soul in its spiritual life. He is both “Alpha and Omega.” “Salvation is of the Lord.” If I am prayerful, God makes me prayerful; if I have graces,…

  • THE DESTITUTION OF SERVICE

    My Utmost For His Highest Though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. 2 Cor. 12:15. Natural love expects some return, but Paul says—‘I do not care whether you love me or not, I am willing to destitute myself completely, not merely for your sakes, but that I may get you…

  • BLEST BE THE TIE THAT BINDS

    Amazing Grace John Fawcett, 1740–1817 Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble. (1 John 2:10) “We just cannot break the ties of affection that bind us to you dear friends.” As Mary Fawcett assured the little congregation at Wainsgate, England, of the bond of…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    It is pleasant to pass over a country after a storm has spent itself; to smell the freshness of the herbs after the rain has passed away, and to note the drops while they glisten like purest diamonds in the sunlight. That is the position of a Christian. He is going through a land where…

  • THE DELIGHT OF SACRIFICE

    My Utmost For His Highest I will very gladly spend and be spent for you. 2 Cor. 12:15. When the Spirit of God has shed abroad the love of God in our hearts, we begin deliberately to identify ourselves with Jesus Christ’s interests in other people, and Jesus Christ is interested in every kind of…

  • SAVIOR TEACH ME DAY BY DAY

    Amazing Grace Jane E. Leeson, 1807–1882 If anyone loves Me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. (John 14:23) It is wonderful to have experienced God’s gift of love in days past, but the real challenge of victorious Christian living…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Here is sovereign mercy—“I will give them the shower in its season.” Is it not sovereign, divine mercy?—for who can say, “I will give them showers,” except God? There is only one voice which can speak to the clouds, and bid them beget the rain. Who sendeth down the rain upon the earth? Who scattereth…