VISION AND REALITY And the parched ground shall become a pool. – Isaiah 35:7 We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then…
My Utmost for His Highest
Don’t Calculate Without God Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass. – Psalm 37:5 Don’t calculate without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we…
My Utmost for His Highest
One Of God’s Great Don’ts Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil doing. – Psalm 37:8 Fretting means getting out at elbows mentally or spiritually. It is one thing to say “Fret not,” but a very different thing to…
My Utmost for His Highest
The Concentration Of Personal Sin Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips.. – Isaiah 6:5 When I get into the presence of God, I do not realize that I am a sinner…
My Utmost for His Highest
The Conditions Of Discipleship If any man come to Me, and hate not … he cannot be My disciple. – Luke 14:26,27,33 If the closest relationships of life clash with the claims of Jesus Christ, He says it must be…
My Utmost for His Highest
THE INEVITABLE PENALTY Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the uttermost farthing. – Matthew 5:26 There is no heaven with a little corner of hell in it. God is…
My Utmost for His Highest
DO IT NOW Agree with thine adversary quickly. – Matthew 5:25 Jesus Christ is laying down this principle – Do what you know you must do, now, and do it quickly; if you do not, the inevitable process will begin…
My Utmost for His Highest
DIRECTION OF DISCIPLINE And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast…
Trash Translation
While I am very eager for the return of my Lord, I don’t look forward to having to give account of the decisions I’ve made in life. I am glad, however, that I don’t have to give account of other…
Heinous Murder
From: Living Waters.com Mother Hires Killer to HACK CHILD TO PIECES Houston, TX Recently, a mother paid a man to kill her young boy, who was hacked to death with a sharp instrument, cutting off his right arm and severing…
My Utmost for His Highest
THE UNCRITICAL TEMPER Judge not, that ye be not judged. – Matthew 7:1 Jesus says regarding judging – Don’t. The average Christian is the most penetratingly critical individual. Criticism is a part of the ordinary faculty of man; but in…
A Request to My Fellow Christian
I’m trying to put together a list of great Bible verses for a little project I’m doing. Just wondering if all the Christians who read this could leave your favorite verse (or verses) in the comments. For consistency, I need…
My Utmost for His Highest
THE SECRET OF THE LORD The secret (friendship R.V.) of the Lord is with them that fear Him. – Psalms 25:14 What is the sign of a friend? That he tells you secret Sorrows? No, that he tells you secret…
Religion Defined
The Evangelical Outpost asks “what constitutes a valid religion?”. Since becoming a born-again Christian about 5 years ago, I have come up with my own definitions of religion. I have two. The first is the broadest, and simplest to explain.…
My Utmost for His Highest
As someone who started the day out in a bad mood (which caused me to lose track of what I was doing and lock my keys in my car, making my mood worse), this was especially good for me today.…