Category Archives: Bible

March 29th Our Lord’s surprise visits Be ye therefore ready also. Luke 12:40. The great need for the Christian worker is to be ready to face Jesus Christ at any and every turn. This is not easy, no matter what our experience is. The battle is not against sin or difficulties or circumstances, but againstContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

March 28th Isn’t there some misunderstanding? Let us go into Judea. His disciples say unto Him … Goest Thou thither again? John 11:7–8 . I may not understand what Jesus Christ says, but it is dangerous to say that therefore He was mistaken in what He said. It is never right to think that myContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

March 27th Vision by personal character Come up hither, and I will shew thee things. Rev. 4:1. An elevated mood can only come out of an elevated habit of personal character. If in the externals of your life you live up to the highest you know, God will continually say—‘Friend, go up higher.’ The goldenContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

March 26th Vision by personal purity Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God. Matthew 5:8. Purity is not innocence, it is much more. Purity is the outcome of sustained spiritual sympathy with God. We have to grow in purity. The life with God may be right and the inner purity remainContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

March 31 “ ‘The wind was contrary.” (Matt. 14:24) RUDE and blustering the winds of March often are. Do they not typify the tempestuous seasons of my life? But, indeed, I ought to be glad that I make acquaintance with these seasons. Better it is that the rains descend and the floods come than that IContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”