My Utmost for His Highest Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. – John 13:13 To have a master and to be mastered is not the same thing. To have a master means…
Missionary Predestinations
My Utmost for His Highest And now, saith the Lord, that formed me from the womb to be His servant. – Isaiah 49:5 The first thing that happens after we have realized our election to God in Christ Jesus is…
The Divine Rule of Life
My Utmost for His Highest Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect. – Matthew 5:48 Our Lord’s exhortation in these verses is to be generous in our behaviour to all men. In the spiritual life…
What’s the Good of Temptation?
My Utmost for His Highest There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man. – 1 Corinthians 10:13 The word ‘temptation’ has come down in the world; we are apt to use it wrongly: Temptation is…
The Divine Region of Religion
My Utmost for His Highest But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret. – Matthew 6:6 The main idea in the region of religion…
What to Renounce
My Utmost for His Highest But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. – 2 Corinthians 4:2 Have you “renounced the hidden things of dishonesty”-the things that your sense of honour will not allow to come to the light? You…
Imagination v. inspiration
My Utmost for His Highest The simplicity that is in Christ. – 2 Corinthians 11:3 Simplicity is the secret of seeing things clearly. A saint does not think clearly for a long while, but a saint ought to see clearly…
Forget Religion
Andrew, over at Philosophical Poetry, has an interesting post about his recent experience with the Rosary. I especially like how he concludes his story.