“Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death.” Psalm 107:10 God’s people are here represented not as sitting in death; were they sitting there, they would be dead altogether; but they are sitting in the shadow of death. Observe, death has lost its reality to them; it now can only cast a … Read more
“For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance.” 1 Thessalonians 1:5 The Holy Ghost never comes into any poor sinner’s soul, except through the medium of the gospel of the grace of God. Have you ever considered that point? You … Read more
“A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.” Proverbs 22:3 Noah, warned of God, prepared an ark to the saving of his house. Lot, admonished by the angels, fled out of Sodom. So there is a fleeing from the wrath to come. How careless, how secure, … Read more
“I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.” Isaiah 44:3 In pouring out his Spirit upon Zion’s seed, God pours out therewith every spiritual blessing that there is in his heart or hands to bestow. Whatever earthly good you may enjoy, without the blessing of God it will but … Read more
“And floods upon the dry ground.” Isaiah 44:3 How often does the soul, born and taught of God, feel that it is this “dry ground!” It would fain be fruitful in every good word and work; it would be adorned with every grace of the Spirit within, and with every good and godly fruit without. … Read more
“For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty.” Isaiah 44:3 Thirst, as a feeling of the soul, in a spiritual sense, is certainly indicative of divine life. It is as impossible, spiritually viewed, for a man dead in sin to thirst after a living God, as for a corpse in the graveyard to … Read more
“For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.” Hebrews 2:10 When, with believing eyes, we can view God the Son as the eternal salvation of all whom the Father gave unto him; … Read more
“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.” Philemon 25 It is the regenerating breath of the Lord Jesus Christ which makes the soul alive unto himself. This is manifest from his own language: “It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they … Read more
“Exercise thyself unto godliness.” 1 Timothy 4:7 “The Lord trieth the righteous” (Ps. 11:5). In fact, a righteous life is for the most part a tried life. There is not a child of God, whose graces are lively and active, that is not tried in his soul. I have no more belief that the soul … Read more
“Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me: for I am poor and needy.” Psalm 86:1 Whatever deliverance a man may have experienced, let him have been delivered from the lowest hell, and have had his feet placed upon a rock, yet all his life long he will have this experience wrought in him by … Read more