Category Archives: Bible

January 14th Called of God Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. Isaiah 6:8. God did not address the call to Isaiah; Isaiah overheard God saying—“Who will go for us?” The call of God is not for the special few, it is for everyone.Continue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

January 13th Have you ever been alone with God? When He was alone, the twelve … asked of Him … Mark 4:10. His Solitude with us. When God gets us alone by affliction, heartbreak, or temptation, by disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted affection, by a broken friendship, or by a new friendship—when He gets usContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

January 12th Have you ever been alone with God? When they were alone, He expounded all things to His disciples. Mark 4:34. Our Solitude with Him. Jesus does not take us alone and expound things to us all the time; He expounds things to us as we can understand them. Other lives are parables. GodContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

January 11th What my obedience to God costs other people They laid hold upon one Simon, … and on him they laid the cross Luke 23:26. If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in loveContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

January 31 “He giveth quietness.” (Job 34:29.) QUIETNESS amid the dash of the storm. We sail the lake with Him still; and as we reach its middle waters, far from land, under midnight skies, suddenly a great storm sweeps down. Earth and hell seem arrayed against us, and each billow threatens to overwhelm. Then HeContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”