Our God’s tender love for his servants makes him concerned for the state of their inward feelings. He desires them to be of good courage. Some esteem it a small thing for a believer to be vexed with doubts and fears, but God thinks not so. From this text it is plain that our Master …
Evening, May 11 – “Only be thou strong and very courageous.” Joshua 1:7 Read More »
“Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.” Genesis 49:19 Some of us have been like the tribe of Gad. Our adversaries for a while were too many for us; they came upon us like a troop. Yes, and for the moment they overcame us; and they exulted greatly because …
It is well there is One who is ever the same, and who is ever with us. It is well there is one stable rock amidst the billows of the sea of life. O my soul, set not thine affections upon rusting, moth-eaten, decaying treasures, but set thine heart upon him who abides forever faithful …
Morning, May 11 – “I am with you alway.” Matthew 28:20 Read More »
Believer, you can bear your testimony that Christ is the only begotten of the Father, as well as the first begotten from the dead. You can say, “He is divine to me, if he be human to all the world beside. He has done that for me which none but a God could do. He …
Evening, May 10 – “The only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14 Read More »
“So that we may boldy say, The LORD is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me” (Hebrews 13:6). Because God will never leave nor forsake us, we may well be content with such things as we have. Since the LORD is ours, we cannot be left without a friend, …
The whole system of Christianity rests upon the fact that “Christ is risen from the dead;” for, “If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain: ye are yet in your sins.” The divinity of Christ finds its surest proof in his resurrection, since he was “Declared to …
Morning, May 10 – “But now is Christ risen from the dead.” 1 Corinthians 15:20 Read More »
The church was about to engage in earnest labour, and desired her Lord’s company in it. She does not say, “I will go,” but “let us go.” It is blessed working when Jesus is at our side! It is the business of God’s people to be trimmers of God’s vines. Like our first parents, we …
“For our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in His Holy Name” (Psalm 33:21). The root of faith produces the flower of heart-joy. We may not at the first rejoice, but it comes in due time. We trust the LORD when we are sad, and in due season He so answers our …
All the goodness of the past, the present, and the future, Christ bestows upon his people. In the mysterious ages of the past the Lord Jesus was his Father’s first elect, and in his election he gave us an interest, for we were chosen in him from before the foundation of the world. He had …
Morning, May 9 – “Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings.” Ephesians 1:3 Read More »
If we would rightly “acquaint ourselves with God, and be at peace,” we must know him as he has revealed himself, not only in the unity of his essence and subsistence, but also in the plurality of his persons. God said, “Let us make man in our own image”–let not man be content until he …
Evening, May 8 – “Acquaint now thyself with him.” Job 22:21 Read More »