Tag: My Utmost For His Highest

  • INTEREST OR IDENTIFICATION?

    My Utmost For His Highest I have been crucified with Christ. Gal. 2:20. The imperative need spiritually is to sign the death-warrant of the disposition of sin, to turn all emotional impressions and intellectual beliefs into a moral verdict against the disposition of sin, viz., my claim to my right to myself. Paul says—“I have…

  • FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD

    My Utmost For His Highest Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? Genesis 18:17. Its Delights. This chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God as compared with occasional feelings of His presence in prayer. To be so much in contact with God that you never need to ask Him…

  • THE WAY OF ABRAHAM IN FAITH

    My Utmost For His Highest He went out, not knowing whither he went. Hebrews 11:8. In the Old Testament, personal relationship with God showed itself in separation, and this is symbolized in the life of Abraham by his separation from his country and from his kith and kin. To-day the separation is more of a…

  • SHALL I ROUSE MYSELF UP TO THIS?

    My Utmost For His Highest Perfecting holiness in the fear of God. 2 Cor. 7:1. “Having therefore these promises.” I claim the fulfilment of God’s promises, and rightly, but that is only the human side; the Divine side is that through the promises I recognize God’s claim on me. For instance, am I realizing that…

  • THE WORKER’S RULING PASSION

    My Utmost For His Highest Wherefore we labour, that, … we may be accepted of Him. 2 Cor. 5:9. “Wherefore we labour …” It is arduous work to keep the master ambition in front. It means holding one’s self to the high ideal year in and year out, not being ambitious to win souls or…

  • THE MASTER ASSIZES

    My Utmost For His Highest For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. 2 Cor. 5:10 Paul says that we must all, preacher and people alike, “appear before the judgment seat of Christ.” If you learn to live in the white light of Christ here and now, judgment finally will cause you…

  • THE DISCIPLINE OF DISMAY

    My Utmost For His Highest And as they followed, they were afraid. Mark 10:32. At the beginning we were sure we knew all about Jesus Christ, it was a delight to sell all and to fling ourselves out in a hardihood of love; but now we are not quite so sure. Jesus is on in…

  • OBEDIENCE

    His servants ye are to whom ye obey. Romans 6:16. The first thing to do in examining the power that dominates me is to take hold of the unwelcome fact that I am responsible for being thus dominated because I have yielded. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame for it…

  • THE ABANDONMENT OF GOD

    My Utmost For His Highest God so loved the world that He gave … John 3:16. Salvation is not merely deliverance from sin, nor the experience of personal holiness; the salvation of God is deliverance out of self entirely into union with Himself. My experimental knowledge of salvation will be along the line of deliverance…

  • ABANDONMENT

    Then Peter began to say unto Him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed Thee.… Mark 10:28. Our Lord replies, in effect, that abandonment is for Himself, and not for what the disciples themselves will get from it. Beware of an abandonment which has the commercial spirit in it—‘I am going to give myself…