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February 20th The initiative against dreaming Arise, let us go hence. John 14:31. Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong. After Our Lord had said those wonderful things to His disciples, we might have expected that He wouldContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

February 19th The initiative against drudgery Arise, shine. Isaiah 60:1. We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not; but immediately we arise we find He is there. Whenever God inspires, the initiative is a moral one.Continue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

February 18th The initiative against despair Rise let us be going. Matthew 26:46. The disciples went to sleep when they should have kept awake, and when they realized what they had done it produced despair. The sense of the irreparable is apt to make us despair, and we say—‘It is all up now, it isContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

February 17th The initiative against depression Arise and eat. 1 Kings 19:5. The angel did not give Elijah a vision, or explain the Scriptures to him, or do anything remarkable; he told Elijah to do the most ordinary thing, viz., to get up and eat. If we were never depressed we should not be alive;Continue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

February 16th The inspiration of spiritual initiative Arise from the dead. Eph. 5:14. All initiative is not inspired. A man may say to you—‘Buck up, take your disinclination by the throat, throw it overboard, and walk out into the thing!’ That is ordinary human initiative. But when the Spirit of God comes in and says,Continue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”