Tag: My Utmost For His Highest

  • THE RIGHT LINES OF WORK

    My Utmost For His Highest I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me. John 12:32. Very few of us have any understanding of the reason why Jesus Christ died. If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is a farce, there was no need for it.…

  • WHAT TO CONCENTRATE ON

    My Utmost For His Highest I came not to send peace, but a sword. Matthew 10:34 I came not to send peace, but a sword. Matthew 10:34. Never be sympathetic with the soul whose case makes you come to the conclusion that God is hard. God is more tender than we can conceive, and every…

  • THE TEST OF LOYALTY

    My Utmost For His Highest And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God. Romans 8:28. It is only the loyal soul who believes that God engineers circumstances. We take such liberties with our circumstances, we do not believe God engineers them, although we say we do; we treat…

  • REDEMPTION CREATES THE NEED IT SATISFIES

    My Utmost For His Highest But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him. 1 Cor. 2:14. The Gospel of God creates a sense of need of the Gospel. Paul says—“If our gospel be hid, it is hid”—to those who are blackguards? No, “to them…

  • WRESTLING BEFORE GOD

    My Utmost For His Highest Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, … praying always … Eph. 6:13, 18. You have to wrestle against the things that prevent you from getting to God, and you wrestle in prayer for other souls; but never say that you wrestle with God in prayer, it is…

  • APPROVED UNTO GOD

    My Utmost For His Highest Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Tim. 2:15. If you cannot express yourself on any subject, struggle until you can. If you do not, someone will be the poorer all the days of his…

  • THE GREAT LIFE

    My Utmost For His Highest Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you.… Let not your heart be troubled. John 14:27. Whenever a thing becomes difficult in personal experience, we are in danger of blaming God, but it is we who are in the wrong, not God, there is some perversity somewhere…

  • WHAT TO PRAY FOR

    My Utmost For His Highest Men ought always to pray, and not to faint. Luke 18:1. You cannot intercede if you do not believe in the reality of the Redemption; you will turn intercession into futile sympathy with human beings which will only increase their submissive content to being out of touch with God. In…

  • PERSONALITY

    My Utmost For His Highest That they may be one, even as we are one. John 17:22. Personality is that peculiar, incalculable thing that is meant when we speak of ourselves as distinct from everyone else. Our personality is always too big for us to grasp. An island in the sea may be but the…

  • INDIVIDUALITY

    My Utmost For His Highest If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself. Matthew 16:24. Individuality is the husk of the personal life. Individuality is all elbows, it separates and isolates. It is the characteristic of the child and rightly so; but if we mistake individuality for the personal life, we shall…