My Utmost for his Highest by Oswald Chambers is a favorite of both my husband and myself. I keep coming back to it.
I also love the Spurgeon Morning by morning and evening by evening.
My parents and grandparents use Daily Light but I don't that is in print anymore.
I would also recommend finding a style of writing that speaks to you in a devotional. That can make a difference in what speaks to your heart at the same time. I often supplement the bible or formal devotional with shorter read like "the Pursuit of God" by A.W. Tozer because I love all the quotes and beautiful imagery he shares with readers from his favorite authors.
For example: A.W. Tozer gives credit to Fredrick Faber in this quote below:
"Fredrick Faber was one whose soul panted after God as the roe pants after the water brook, and
the measure in which God revealed Himself to his seeking heart set the good man’s whole life afire
with a burning adoration rivaling that of the seraphim before the throne. His love for God extended
to the three Persons of the Godhead equally, yet he seemed to feel for each One a special kind of love
reserved for Him alone. Of God the Father he sings:
Only to sit and think of God, Oh what a joy it is! To think the thought, to breathe the Name;
Earth has no higher bliss. Father of Jesus, love’s reward! What rapture will it be, Prostrate before Thy throne to lie,
And gaze and gaze on Thee!
His love for the Person of Christ was so intense that it threatened to consume him; it burned
within him as a sweet and holy madness and flowed from his lips like molten gold. In one of his
sermons he says, “Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle
and end of everything to us. ... There is nothing good, nothing holy, nothing beautiful, nothing joyous
which He is not to His servants. No one need be poor, because, if he chooses, he can have Jesus for
his own property and possession. No one need be downcast, for Jesus is the joy of heaven, and it is
His joy to enter into sorrowful hearts. We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never
exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. All
our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things
that might be said of Him. Eternity will not be long enough to learn all He is, or to praise Him for all
He has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with Him, and we desire nothing
more.” And addressing our Lord directly he says to Him:
“I love Thee so, I know not how My transports to control; Thy love is like a burning fire
Within my very soul.”
Faber’s blazing love extended also to the Holy Spirit. Not only in his theology did he acknowledge His deity and full equality with the Father and the Son, but he celebrated it constantly in his
songs and in his prayers. He literally pressed his forehead to the ground in his eager fervid worship
of the Third Person of the Godhead. In one of his great hymns to the Holy Spirit he sums up his
burning devotion thus:
“O Spirit, beautiful and dread! My heart is fit to break With love of all Thy tenderness For us
poor sinners’ sake."
Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did.
