Category Archives: Bible

February 11th Is your hope in God faint and dying? Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose imagination is stayed on Thee. Isaiah 26:3 (R.V. marg.). Is your imagination stayed on God or is it starved? The starvation of the imagination is one of the most fruitful sources of exhaustion and sapping in aContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

February 10th Is your imagination of God starved? Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things. Isaiah 40:26. The people of God in Isaiah’s day had starved their imagination by looking on the face of idols, and Isaiah made them look up at the heavens; that is, he made themContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

February 9th Are you exhausted spiritually? The everlasting God … fainteth not, neither is weary. Isaiah 40:28. Exhaustion means that the vital forces are worn right out. Spiritual exhaustion never comes through sin but only through service, and whether or not you are exhausted will depend upon where you get your supplies. Jesus said toContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

February 8th Instantaneous and insistent sanctification And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly. 1 Thess. 5:23–24 . When we pray to be sanctified, are we prepared to face the standard of these verses? We take the term sanctification much too lightly. Are we prepared for what sanctification will cost? It will cost anContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

February 7th The discipline of dejection But we trusted … and beside all this, to-day is the third day … Luke 24:21. Every fact that the disciples stated was right; but the inferences they drew from those facts were wrong. Anything that savours of dejection spiritually is always wrong. If depression and oppression visit me,Continue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”