“For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 3:11 We are very eager to put our hands to work. Like Uzzah, we must needs prop up the ark when we see it stumbling; when faith totters, we must come to bear a helping hand. But this … Read more
“There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen.” Job 28:7 Growth in grace is not progressive sanctification and fleshly holiness on the one hand, nor a false and delusive establishment on the other. The narrow path lies between these two extremes. On the one side is Seneh, … Read more
“But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.” Hebrews 10:39 The Scriptures have brought certain marks not only to test, but also to comfort God’s people. But in order to keep them tremblingly alive to the fear of being deceived; in … Read more
“Who against hope believed in hope.” Romans 4:18 Hope is a fruit of the Spirit; and the absence of hope, the thorough, complete absence of hope, stamps death upon that nominal branch, in which the absence of all hope is found. But some will say, “Are not the children of God often plunged into despair?” … Read more
“But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel.” Luke 24:21 What a trial to their faith must the death of Jesus have been to his disciples and believing followers! When their Lord and Master died, their hopes, for the time at least, seem almost to have died with him. And … Read more
“Make me not the reproach of the foolish.” Psalm 39:8 Who are these “foolish?” I think the best answer to this question is given by our Lord himself, in the parable of the wise and foolish virgins. “The foolish” were those who had oil in their lamps, but none in their vessels. By “the foolish” … Read more
“For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.” Isaiah 54:5 As in the marriage union man and wife become one flesh, and, God having joined them together, no man may put them … Read more
“But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead.” 2 Corinthians 1:9 What is life naturally and what is death naturally? Is not that life in which there is breath, energy, movement, activity? And what is death but the utter cessation … Read more
“After the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.” Hebrews 7:15, 16 We may say of the life which the Lord Jesus lives in the courts of heavenly bliss that it is a threefold life. There … Read more
“Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us.” 2 Peter 1:1 What a thought it is, that if you and I possess one grain of living faith, the same precious grace is in our hearts that was in the hearts of all the … Read more
“Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” Philippians 4:6 What a word this is! “Everything!” You are privileged, saint of God, to go to the throne of God with everything. What, with every little occurrence? Yes. What, with things that people … Read more
“My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.” John 10:29 In that most sublime and touching prayer which the Lord Jesus Christ, as the great High Priest over the house of God, offered up to his heavenly Father before he … Read more