“For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.” Psalm 66:10 The Lord’s dealings with his people in the wilderness are very much to this purpose and to this end—to prove them, and to know what is in their hearts. Has the Lord implanted life in your soul? Has … Read more
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” Hebrews 12:1 Every fervent desire of your soul after the Lord Jesus Christ; … Read more
“For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews … Read more
“Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.” 2 Corinthians 3:16 The blessed Spirit, as a needful preparation for his own divine instruction, convinces us of our ignorance, of the veil of unbelief that is by nature spread over our heart, and of our utter inability to take it … Read more
“But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city.” Hebrews 11:16 In desiring a better country these ancient pilgrims wanted something heavenly, something that tasted of God, savoured of God, smelt of God, and was … Read more
“But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?” Job 19:28 In almost every plant it is at the root that disease begins. If ever you see even a plant in a flower-pot unhealthy, depend upon it there is something wrong at the root. It is … Read more
“To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.” Luke 1:79 What was it that moved the divine Father to send his own Son into the world? Was it not the free mercy of God flowing forth from his bosom … Read more
“Through the tender mercies of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us.” Luke 1:78 By “day-spring” is meant the day-dawn, the herald of the rising sun, the change from darkness to light, the first approach of morn, in a word, the spring of the day. But what is this “day-spring” spiritually? … Read more
“Abide in me, and I in you.” John 15:4 The Lord did not use these words as though there were any power in the creature to abide in him. But he was pleased to use them, that they might be blessed to his people when the Holy Spirit applied them to the heart; for he … Read more
“I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.” Revelation 1:18 O what a mercy that he who was dead lives at God’s right hand! that he lives as a risen head; that he is not a dead Saviour; … Read more
“The kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.” 1 Corinthians 4:20 It is through the word of God in the hands of the Spirit, that this kingdom is set up in the soul. All God’s people are agreed on this point, that they have no more religion than they have inward power. … Read more
“For we are strangers before thee and sojourners, as were all our fathers; our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” 1 Chronicles 29:15 If you possess the faith of Abraham, Isaac, and, Jacob, you, like them, confess that you are a stranger; and your confession springs out of … Read more