My Utmost for His Highest If Thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us. – Mark 9:22 After every time of exaltation we are brought down with a sudden rush into things as they are where…
The Sphere of Exaltation
My Utmost for His Highest Jesus leadeth them up into a high mountain apart by themselves. – Mark 9:2 We have all had times on the mount, when we have seen things from God’s standpoint and have wanted to stay…
The Commission of the Call
My Utmost for His Highest Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His body’s sake. Colossians 1:24 We make calls out of our…
The Consciousness of the Call
My Utmost for His Highest For necessity is laid upon me: yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! – 1 Corinthians 9:16 We are apt to forget the mystical, supernatural touch of God. If you can…
The “Go” of Unconditional Identification
My Utmost for His Highest One thing thou lackest. . . . come, take up the cross, and follow Me. – Mark 10:21 The rich young ruler had the master passion to be perfect. When he saw Jesus Christ, he…
The “Go” of Renunciation
My Utmost for His Highest Lord, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. – Luke 9:57 Our Lord’s attitude to this man is one of severe discouragement because He knew what was in man. We would have said-‘Fancy losing the…
The “Go” of Preparation
My Utmost for His Highest Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there thou rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to…
The Missionary’s Goal
My Utmost for His Highest Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. – Luke 18:31 In the natural life our ambitions alter as we develop; in the Christian life the goal is given at the beginning, the beginning and the end…
The Missionary’s Master
My Utmost for His Highest Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. – John 13:13 To have a master and to be mastered is not the same thing. To have a master means…
Missionary Predestinations
My Utmost for His Highest And now, saith the Lord, that formed me from the womb to be His servant. – Isaiah 49:5 The first thing that happens after we have realized our election to God in Christ Jesus is…
The Divine Rule of Life
My Utmost for His Highest Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect. – Matthew 5:48 Our Lord’s exhortation in these verses is to be generous in our behaviour to all men. In the spiritual life…
What’s the Good of Temptation?
My Utmost for His Highest There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man. – 1 Corinthians 10:13 The word ‘temptation’ has come down in the world; we are apt to use it wrongly: Temptation is…
The Divine Region of Religion
My Utmost for His Highest But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret. – Matthew 6:6 The main idea in the region of religion…
What to Renounce
My Utmost for His Highest But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. – 2 Corinthians 4:2 Have you “renounced the hidden things of dishonesty”-the things that your sense of honour will not allow to come to the light? You…
Imagination v. inspiration
My Utmost for His Highest The simplicity that is in Christ. – 2 Corinthians 11:3 Simplicity is the secret of seeing things clearly. A saint does not think clearly for a long while, but a saint ought to see clearly…