Ps 22:16. “For dogs have compassed me.” Here he marks the more ignoble crowd, who, while less strong than their brutal leaders, were not less ferocious, for there they were howling and barking like unclean and hungry dogs! Hunters frequently surround their game with a circle, and gradually encompass them with an ever-narrowing ring of dogs […]
“CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY!” (Romans 5:6) To redeem poor sinners, Jesus came down from heaven, put on the rags of our morality, agonised, bled and died. Jesus is made His people’s substitute, burden-bearer, sin-remover, guilt-sustainer. Their debt is placed to His account. His riches pay the full amount. […]
ONE ANSWER TO TEN THOUSAND HOW’S Faith brings God unto the scene. Therefore, it knows absolutely nothing of difficulty; it laughs at impossibilities. In the judgment of faith, God is the answer to every question; He is the salvation to every difficulty….Unbelief says, how can such things be? Unbelief is full of flaws; but faith […]
ONE ANSWER TO TEN THOUSAND HOW’S Faith brings God unto the scene. Therefore, it knows absolutely nothing of difficulty; it laughs at impossibilities. In the judgment of faith, God is the answer to every question; He is the salvation to every difficulty….Unbelief says, how can such things be? Unbelief is full of flaws; but faith […]
EXCEPT YE BELIEVE John 8:24 Our Lord Jesus plainly declared, “Except ye believe that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.” These are sobering words. Our Lord did not say, “Except ye try harder,” “Except ye become religious,” or “Except ye do enough good.” He said, “Except ye believe.” But believe what? We must believe […]
Take our sins to God!Spurgeon, “A Troubled Prayer” No. 741. Ps. 25:18 We must take our sins to God!The Christian, when he sins, thinks that he must fight this battle for himself,wrestle with his own evil temper himself, and he himself must enter into conflictwith his lusts and his besetting sins. But when he comes into […]
We need You to bring us to You! (C.H.Spurgeon) “When my heart is overwhelmed—lead me to the Rock that is higher than I!” Psalm 61:2 Most of us know what it is to be overwhelmed in heart—sinking like a vessel deluged by the storm!Discoveries of inward corruption will do this—if the Lord permits the great deep of our depraved […]
GOD’S WOUNDING AND HEALING “I wound and I heal.”–Deut. 32:39 It is no little comfort to the afflicted child of God to be thus divinely assured that both the wounding and the healing flow from one Hand–that Hand a Father’s. The sword that wounds–“bathed in heaven”–bears upon its point the balm that heals. Meditate awhile, my […]
O WHAT A WRETCHED THING THIS FLESH IS! O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 7:24, 25) For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one […]
The flaming sword of justice quenched in the holy, loving bosom of Jesus! (Octavius Winslow) “Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree!” 1 Peter 2:24 The most significant and appalling demonstration of God’s holiness that the universe ever beheld, infinitely distancing and transcending every other — is the […]