“My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God.” Psalm 42:2 Has your heart ever panted after the Lord Jesus as the hart panteth after the water brooks? Do you ever lie in the dust mourning over your sins against such bleeding, dying love? Do you ever ask God to kindle in your soul an … Read more
“He that overcometh shall inherit all things.” Revelation 21:7 “He shall inherit all things.” When? In eternity? Yes. But only in eternity? O no! In time also. There is a twofold inheritance, though one and the same; one in time, another in eternity; one the firstfruits, the other the harvest; one the earnest, the other … Read more
“O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.” Psalm 84:12 Trust in God implies total self-renunciation. The moment that I trust in myself, I cease to trust in God. The moment I take any portion of my confidence away from the Lord and put a grain of it in myself, that … Read more
“Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” Hebrews 12:6 Does not James say, “Blessed is the man that endureth temptation?” And again, “Count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations?” Why? Is there any joy in trials, any pleasure in sorrow? No, none. But in the deliverance … Read more
“For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.” Psalm 109:22 The needy is a character who is not merely poor, empty, and naked before God, but who is feelingly in want of spiritual blessings applied to his soul. Some persons can rest on temptations, and take temptations as evidences. Others … Read more
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9 “He is faithful and just.” Oh, what a word is that! There is scarcely to my mind such a word in the Bible as that; so great, so glorious, so … Read more
“That he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.” Romans 3:26 Every created thing, every finite intelligence, must sooner be annihilated, than Jehovah can sacrifice, or suffer the slightest tarnish to come over any one of his eternal attributes. Yet God can be just, infinitely just, scrupulously just, unchangeably just,—and … Read more
“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.” Ephesians 1:4, 5 It is a very solemn … 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 There is one then to come, “whose right it is;” there is a King who has a right to the throne, and to the allegiance of his subjects; … Read more
“This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck.” 1 Timothy 1:18, 19 This “good warfare” is carried on against three principal … Read more
“But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.” Psalm 3:3 If your soul has ever been favoured with a taste of mercy, with a sip of the brook by the way; if ever your conscience has felt the application of atoning blood, or the love … Read more
“And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.” Romans 8:10 We want two things in lively operation; a spiritual death and a spiritual life. We want death put upon the flesh, upon sin, upon everything which is ungodly, that it may not … Read more