The will to loyalty Choose you this day whom ye will serve. – Joshua 24:15 Will is the whole man active. I cannot give up my will, I must exercise it. I must will to obey, and I must will…
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ALL NOBLE THINGS ARE DIFFICULT Enter ye in at the strait gate . . because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way… -Matthew 7:13-14 If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember…
My Utmost for His Highest
VISION AND REALITY And the parched ground shall become a pool. – Isaiah 35:7 We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then…
My Utmost for His Highest
Don’t Calculate Without God Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass. – Psalm 37:5 Don’t calculate without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we…
My Utmost for His Highest
One Of God’s Great Don’ts Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil doing. – Psalm 37:8 Fretting means getting out at elbows mentally or spiritually. It is one thing to say “Fret not,” but a very different thing to…
My Utmost for His Highest
The Concentration Of Personal Sin Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips.. – Isaiah 6:5 When I get into the presence of God, I do not realize that I am a sinner…
My Utmost for His Highest
The Conditions Of Discipleship If any man come to Me, and hate not … he cannot be My disciple. – Luke 14:26,27,33 If the closest relationships of life clash with the claims of Jesus Christ, He says it must be…
My Utmost for His Highest
THE INEVITABLE PENALTY Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the uttermost farthing. – Matthew 5:26 There is no heaven with a little corner of hell in it. God is…
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DO IT NOW Agree with thine adversary quickly. – Matthew 5:25 Jesus Christ is laying down this principle – Do what you know you must do, now, and do it quickly; if you do not, the inevitable process will begin…
My Utmost for His Highest
DIRECTION OF DISCIPLINE And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast…
My Utmost for His Highest
THE UNCRITICAL TEMPER Judge not, that ye be not judged. – Matthew 7:1 Jesus says regarding judging – Don’t. The average Christian is the most penetratingly critical individual. Criticism is a part of the ordinary faculty of man; but in…
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THE SECRET OF THE LORD The secret (friendship R.V.) of the Lord is with them that fear Him. – Psalms 25:14 What is the sign of a friend? That he tells you secret Sorrows? No, that he tells you secret…
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As someone who started the day out in a bad mood (which caused me to lose track of what I was doing and lock my keys in my car, making my mood worse), this was especially good for me today.…
My Utmost for His Highest
“OUT OF THE WRECK I RISE” Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? – Romans 8:35 God does not keep a man immune from trouble; He says – “I will be with him in trouble.” It does not…
My Utmost for His Highest
MAKE A HABIT OF HAVING NO HABITS For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful. – 2 Peter 1:8 When we begin to form a habit we are conscious of it.…