Devotionals

“Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.” Jeremiah 30:7 This “day of trouble” is when sin is laid as a heavy burden upon a man’s conscience; when guilt presses him down into the dust … Read more

“I lead in the way of righteousness.” Proverbs 8:20 How does the Lord Jesus—who speaks here under the name of Wisdom— lead his saints “in the way of righteousness?” By casting a mysterious light into their souls, whereby they see what the word of God has revealed, and shedding abroad a mysterious power in their … Read more

“Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.” Jonah 2:4 When poor Jonah spake these words he uttered them in the very bitterness of his heart; he felt that he was cast out of God’s gracious presence. But he must have known something experimentally … Read more

“Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.” 1 Peter 1:20 By “these last times” is meant this present dispensation, the dispensation of grace under which we live, and they are called the last times chiefly for two reasons: 1. Because Christ was manifested … Read more

“Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.” Psalm 81:10 When the Lord favours your soul with sweet access at a throne of grace, make the most of it. What should we think of the master of a vessel coming up the river, if, when the wind was favourable and the tide served, he … Read more

“That I may glory with thine inheritance.” Psalm 106:5 The Church is Christ’s inheritance. He purchased it by his own blood. He went into captivity for it, and he redeemed it by pouring out his precious blood for it. Now this inheritance glories: “That I may glory with thine inheritance.” And in whom does it … Read more

“That I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation.” Psalm 106:5 What is “the gladness of God’s nation?” To be saved “without money and without price;” to be saved by grace—free, rich, sovereign, distinguishing grace, without one atom of works, without one grain of creature merit, without anything of the flesh. This is “the … Read more

“That I may see the good of thy chosen.” Psalm 106:5 Did you ever see any good in God’s chosen? Oh! “how goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!” Did you ever see what good God has blessed his people with, and how good it is to be one of them? … Read more

“Remember me, O Lord, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation.” Psalm 106:4 How is a man brought and taught to want to be “visited with” God’s salvation? He must know something first of condemnation. Salvation only suits the condemned. “The Son of man came to seek … Read more

“If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:26, 27 There is no middle path … Read more

“I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.” Ezekiel 21:27 Are there not seasons in our experience when we can lay down our souls before God, and say, “Let Christ be precious to my soul, let him come … Read more

“As dying, and, behold, we live.” 2 Corinthians 6:9 Though we die, and die daily, yet, behold, we live; and in a sense, the more we die, the more we live. The more we die to self, the more we die to sin; the more we die to pride and self-righteousness, the more we die … Read more