THE PROMISE And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. Isaiah 46:4 The friends of your youth are gone, death or distance has stripped you of them. But your God […]
Psalm 121 True safety is from God alone. His protecting care is portrayed in attractive colors. May they win us to place all confidence in Him! 1-2. “I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from where comes my help. My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” The pious child […]
If we deny- Charles Pennington. If we deny that man is dead in sin; that he is nothing, has nothing and can do nothing to merit salvation then we make ‘man true and God a liar’! If we deny God’s eternal and unconditional election of a people unto salvation; make salvation to be by man’s […]
“Nevertheless, I am continually with You.” Psalm 73:23 “Nevertheless,” as if, notwithstanding all the foolishness and ignorance which David had just been confessing to God, not one atom the less was it true and certain that David was saved and accepted, and that the blessing of being constantly in God’s presence was undoubtedly his. Fully […]
Our refuge! (Joseph Philpot, “An Immutable God and a Strong Consolation” 1866) “The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.” Psalm 18:2 On every side are hosts of enemies ever invading […]
Union with Christ- J.C.Philpot (extract from A spiritual death and a hidden life.) How Christ is “our life.” Union with Christ is the grand truth revealed in the Scripture, and the fountain head out of which every blessing springs. But to understand this we must carry our thoughts upward and backward, to look at the […]
Union with Christ- J.C.Philpot (extract from A spiritual death and a hidden life.) How Christ is “our life.” Union with Christ is the grand truth revealed in the Scripture, and the fountain head out of which every blessing springs. But to understand this we must carry our thoughts upward and backward, to look at the […]
LOOKING UNTO JESUS Octavius Winslow “Looking unto Jesus” —Hebrews 12:2. It was no little kindness in our God that as one saving object, and one alone, was to engage the attention and fix the eye of the soul, through time and through eternity, that object should be of surpassing excellence and of peerless beauty. That […]
We are Christ’s Spurgeon, “Christ the Glory of His People” We are Christ’s by eternal choice. “You only have I known (or loved) of all the nations of the earth.” The eternal Father has selected us from among the ruins of the fall, and given us into the hands of Christ that we may be […]
The Glorious Bride – Horatius Bonar (18008 1889) “And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, come here, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.”—Revelation 21:9. These are two names for the church of God, […]