But when it pleased God . . . to reveal His son in me . . . Gal. 1:15-16. The call of God is not a call to any particular service; my interpretation of it may be, because contact with…

I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send? Isaiah 6:8. When we speak of the call of God, we are apt to forget the most important feature, viz., the nature of the One Who calls. There…

Buried with Him . . . : that . . . even so we also should walk in newness of life. Romans 6:4. No one enters into the experience of entire sanctification without going through a ‘white funeral’—the burial of…

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…

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…

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…

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…

To open their eyes, . . . . that they may receive . . . Acts 26:18. This verse is the grandest condensation of the propaganda of a disciple of Jesus Christ in the whole of the New Testament. The…

And I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless. 1 Thess. 5:23. “Your whole spirit . . .” The great mystical work of the Holy Spirit is in the dim regions of our personality which…

And Abraham built an altar . . . and bound Isaac his son. Genesis 22:9. This incident is a picture of the blunder we make in thinking that the final thing God wants of us is the sacrifice of death.…