He has done all things well. I’ll sing of Jesus crucified, The Lamb of God who bled and died, A healing balm, a crimson tide, Flowed from His head, His feet, His side! Above the rest this note shall swell, ‘My Jesus has done all things well.’ He sought me in the wilderness, And found […]
“He has done all things well!” Mark 7:37 By Octavius Winslow, “The sigh of Christ” Yes, from first to last, from our cradle to our grave, from the earliest pang of sin’s conviction, to the last thrill of sin’s forgiveness, from earth to heaven — this will be our testimony in all the way the […]
“He hath done all things well.” Mark 7:37 If these men and women who had seen our Savior’s miracles were astonished and cried out, “He hath done all things well,” how much more astonished we ought to be who have tasted and experienced his grace! How much more we ought to confess to God our […]
Is My God The God? Isaiah 41: 21-29 An idol is an image made to represent God (Deuteronomy 4: 15-19). But idolatry is man worshipping himself (Romans 1: 22-25). Just as an image is the work of man’s hand, every man whose salvation is in some aspect dependent upon what he has done is worshipping […]
Paying for admittance into heaven (Horatius Bonar, “Bible Thoughts and Themes”) “He saved us–not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy.” Titus 3:5 Ritualism, or externalism, or traditionalism are all different forms of self-righteousness; man’s self-invented ways of pleasing or appeasing God, or paying for admittance into heaven. These forms of […]
Nothing can tame savage hearts! (John MacDuff) Oh, the human heart is deep in its corruptions, deep in its self-deceptions. “The human heart is most deceitful and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” Jeremiah 17:9 Nothing can tame savage hearts, but the regenerating power of the blessed Gospel. “I will cleanse you from […]
THE LORD’S JEWELS by Spurgeon- Goldsmiths make exquisite forms from ‘precious materials’. They fashion the bracelet and the ring from gold. But God makes His precious things out of ‘base materials’. From the black pebbles of the defiling brooks He has taken up stones which He has set in the golden ring of His immutable […]
One continued dream and delusion (Thomas Boston, “Human Nature in its Fourfold State“) “There is no one who understands.” Romans 3:11 “They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.” Ephes. 4:18 The natural man’s apprehension of divine […]
The “illuminated” Bible? You may read the Bible continuously and yet never learn anything by it, unless it is illuminated by the Spirit. Then the words shine forth like stars. Then the book seems made of gold leaf; every single letter glitters like a diamond. Oh! it is a blessed thing to read an “illuminated Bible” […]
“The Gospel of God’s grace in Christ Jesus is not a thing to be proved, but truth to be believed. It is not submitted to our reasoning powers as a subject for critical examination. The gospel is a MESSAGE FROM GOD, addressed to the conscience, feelings, and affections. For this reason, men fond of argument […]