Christian Watch “In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” Romans 8:37 Those who know nothing of their own heart, of their own infirmities, of their own frailties, of their own inward or outward slips and backslidings, know nothing of the secret of superabounding grace, nothing of the secret of atoning … Read more
“But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God.” Hebrews 10:12 It is a fundamental article of our most holy faith, that the man Christ Jesus is now at God’s right hand, a very man, not a shadowy, aerial substance. “There is one … Read more
“Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.” Isaiah 40:4 If in your road heavenward, no valley ever sank before you; if no mountain and hill ever rose up in sight; if you encountered no crooked path … Read more
“I will give thee the treasures of darkness.” Isaiah 45:3 Is not this a strange expression? “Treasures of darkness!” How can there be darkness in the City of Salvation of which the Lord the Lamb is the eternal light? The expression does not mean that the treasures themselves are darkness, but that they were hidden … Read more
“To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.” Psalm 63:2 Every place is “a sanctuary” where God manifests himself in power and glory to the soul. Moses, doubtless, had often passed by the bush which grew in Horeb; it was but a common hawthorn bush, in no … Read more
“In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” Colossians 2:3 What poor, blind fools are we by nature! How insufficient is all our earthly wisdom and all our natural knowledge, to guide us into the truth! When the soul really is under divine teaching, how ignorant it feels as to every single … Read more
“God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” 1 John 4:16 Love is communicative. This is a part of its very nature and essence. Its delight is to give, and especially to give itself; and all it wants or asks is a return. To love and to … Read more
“God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:9 Nothing distinguishes the divine religion of the saint of God, not only from the dead profanity of the openly ungodly, but from the formal lip-service of the lifeless professor, so much as communion with … Read more
“Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.” Malachi 4:2 Oh, what a mercy for the Church of Christ that the God and Father of the Lord Jesus has not left her as he might justly have left her, to perish in her sins, but has … Read more
“But now we see not yet all things put under him.” Hebrews 2:8 It is God’s special prerogative to bring good out of evil, and order out of confusion. If you were to watch carefully from an astronomical observatory the movements of the planets, you would see them all in the greatest apparent disorder. Sometimes … Read more
“He giveth power to the faint.” Isaiah 40:29 The Lord often gives his people power to take a longing, languishing look at the blood and righteousness of Jesus; to come to the Lord, as “mighty to save,” with the same feelings with which Esther went into the presence of the king: “I will go in, … Read more
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.” Revelation 12:11 It is not “the blood of the Lamb” as revealed in the word of God, but as applied to and sprinkled on the conscience, which answers the accusations of Satan. But we may observe that there … Read more