that even when we are at our darkest hour (or minutes), the Cross is what will bring us back into the Light. No matter what is causing your darkness, look to Christ. We have a God that loves us and died on the Cross to show us. Turn to the only One who can turn darkness into Light, Jesus Christ. I love it when God sends us visual reminders of His Love for us.
of the existence of evil, but it does not take it into account as a factor in planning. When we were apart from God, we did take evil into account, doing all of our planning with it in mind, and we tried to reason out all of our work from its standpoint.
My Utmost for His Highest: An Updated Edition in Today’s Language.
of unreserved surrender to God, and of God’s complete possession of a child of His for His own highest end.
God’s purpose for our life is to bring Him glory. The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever. This is not man’s goal, but God’s goal for man. This is best accomplished when we unreservedly surrender to God. This surrender doesn’t happen until we realize the unconditional love Jesus demonstrated on the cross and continues to pour into to our lives. Do you realize that God’s possession of you is unconditional and eternal?
that you are drawing on the grace of God is that you can be totally humiliated before others without displaying even the slightest trace of anything but His grace.
My Utmost for His Highest: An Updated Edition in Today’s Language.
And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. — Job 42:10
There is a great deal of prayer that comes from actual disbelief in the atonement. Jesus is not just beginning to save us—He has already saved us completely. It is an accomplished fact, and it is an insult to Him for us to ask Him to do what He has already done.
My Utmost for His Highest: An Updated Edition in Today’s Language.
Remember the line from the song by Janis Joplin, Me and Bobby McGee? “Freedom is just another word for nothing else to lose.” It amazes me how the world can get it right, but have a totally different meaning behind why they said it.
Here is what the world means by ‘nothing else to lose’ or freedom. Freedom to them is that none of their ideas can be challenged. Their behavior, beliefs, or lifestyle are beyond reproach. They can behave like they want, and it is someone else’s problem if they don’t agree. It is not that they have nothing to lose, but that they don’t want to be put in a position to lose something. They have created their own pseudo-freedom.
So, what is true freedom? Freedom truly is when you have nothing else to lose! Christ gave everything, including His Life, so we may know the One True God. The Bible says we have been bought with a price and we truly are not our own. It is only when you give up everything, that you have the freedom to know the God that gave up everything to make that possible. It is only when we die to self that we truly know freedom made possible by Jesus and not the pseudo-freedom created by the world.
You can never give another person that which you have found, but you can make him homesick for what you have. today’s devotional from My Utmost for His Highest
By a 15-year-old school kid who got an A+ for this entry
(TOTALLY AWESOME)!
The Lord’s Prayer is not allowed in most
U.S. Public schools any more.
A kid in Minnesota, wrote the following
NEW School Prayer:-
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