“I will rejoice over them to do them good.”-Jeremiah 32:41
How heart-cheering to the believer is the delight which God has in his saints! We cannot see any rea...
“In the evening withhold not thy hand.” -Ecclesiastes 11:6
In the evening of the day opportunities are plentiful: men return from their labour, and the zealous...
"Five years, two children later and a lot of life in between, I am putting my heart to paper and letting it peek into the open air once again. These years have ...
“The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.” -Judges 7:20
Gideon ordered his men to do two things: covering up a torch in an earthen pitcher, he bade them, at an ap...
“For this child I prayed.” -1 Samuel 1:27
Devout souls delight to look upon those mercies which they have obtained in answer to supplication, for they can see ...
“The liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.” -Galatians 5:1
This “liberty” makes us free to heaven’s charter—the Bible. Here is a choice passage, believer...
“And they follow me.”-John 10:27
We should follow our Lord as unhesitatingly as sheep follow their shepherd, for he has a right to lead us wherever he pleases....
“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”-Galatians 5:25
The two most important things in our holy religion are the life of faith and the wal...
“Encourage him.”-Deuteronomy 1:38
God employs his people to encourage one another. He did not say to an angel, “Gabriel, my servant Joshua is about to lead my ...
“Bring him unto me.”-Mark 9:19
Despairingly the poor disappointed father turned away from the disciples to their Master. His son was in the worst possible cond...
“Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?” -Job 7:12
This was a strange question for Job to ask of the Lord. He felt himself to be too insign...
“A people near unto him.”-Psalm 148:14
The dispensation of the old covenant was that of distance. When God appeared even to his servant Moses, he said, “Draw n...
