Category Archives: Bible

August 29th Sublime intimacy Said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? John 11:40. Every time you venture out in the life of faith, you will find something in your commonsense circumstances that flatly contradicts your faith. Common sense is not faith, and faith is notContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

August 29 “And he went out carrying his own cross.” (John 19:17.) THERE is a poem called “The Changed Cross.” It represents a weary onewho thought that her cross was surely heavier than those of others whom she saw about her, and she wished that she might choose another instead of her own. She slept,Continue reading “Streams in the Desert”

29 AUGUST Children of unbelieving parents ‘Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long on the earth.’ Ephesians 6:1–3SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 2 Kings 5:1–14 Let me addContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

August 28th What’s the good of prayer? Lord, teach us to pray. Luke 11:1. It is not part of the life of a natural man to pray. We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life if he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of theContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

August 28 “There he proved them.” (Exod. 15:25.) ISTOOD once in the test room of a great steel mill. All around me were little partitions and compartments. Steel had been tested to the limit, and marked with figures that showed its breaking point. Some pieces had been twisted until they broke, and the strength ofContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”