Category Archives: Bible

June 16th What do you make of this Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend … I have called you friends. John 15:13, 15. Jesus does not ask me to die for Him, but to lay down my life for Him. Peter said—“I will layContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

June 16 “My expectation is from him.” (Psalm 62:5.) OUR too general neglect of looking for answers to what we ask, shows how little we are in earnest in our, Petitions. A husbandman is not content without the harvest; a marksman will observe whether the ball hits the target; a physician watches the effect ofContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

16 JUNE The wilderness becomes a garden of the Lord ‘The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall beContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

June 15th Get a move on In the Matter of Drudgery. And beside this, … add. 2 Peter 1:5. You have inherited the Divine nature, says Peter (v. 4), now screw your attention down and form habits, give diligence, concentrate. “Add” means all that character means. No man is born either naturally or supernaturally withContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

June 15 “For God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.” (Gen. 41:52.) THE summer showers are falling. The poet stands by the window watching them. They are beating and buffeting the earth with their fierce downpour. But the poet sees in his imaginings more than the showers which are falling beforeContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”