The Individual Believer Eternal life is by the Seed being sown within us–Christ in you the hope of glory.  We begin as babes. And children grow up.  The Lord compared faith to a grain of mustard seed, we grow in faith.  Believers are complete in Christ–it is not the measure of our faith that makes […]

CHRIST IS ALL, AND IN ALL  “The Lord is my portion, says my soul.” “Christ is all, and in all.”–Col. 3:11 We close these devout meditations with a magnificent Doxology–Christ all, and Christ in all! It is an epitome, the substance, the consummation and crown of the whole. Each theme has been a wider opening […]

“For we who have believed enter into rest.” Hebrews 4:3 To rest is to ‘lean’ upon something. Is it not so spiritually? We need to lean upon something. The Lord himself has given us this figure. “Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her Beloved?” The figure of “a rock” on which […]

You might as soon yoke a gnat with an archangel as think of your going in to help Christ save you. To join a filthy rag from off a dunghill with the golden garments of a king or a queen cannot be permitted. Christ will be everything, or else he will be nothing. You must […]

I believe that Christ came into the world not to put men into a salvable state, but into a saved state. Not to put them where they could save themselves, but to do the work in them and for them, from first to last. If I did not believe that there was might going forth […]

THE PROMISES OF GOD “For all of God’s promises have been fulfilled in him.” 2 Cor. 1:20 God has made a Will, or Testament, in behalf of His people! It is signed and sealed. It cannot be altered- nothing can divest us of our inheritance. The bequest is His own “exceeding great and precious promises.” What a […]

Your way, not mine, O Lord, However dark it be, Lead me by Your own hand Choose out the path for me. “Smooth let it be, or rough, It will be still the best; Winding or straight, it leads Right onward to Your rest. “I dare not choose my lot I would not, if I […]

A question for streetlights. Isaiah 13: 10: For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. When I was a teenager growing up in the country I almost always had a million-candlepower […]

“Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but unto those who are outside, all these things are said in parables.” Mark 4:11 By “the kingdom of God” is meant the same thing as “the kingdom of heaven,” that is, the internal kingdom set up in the heart by the […]

“BEHOLD, A SOWER WENT FORTH TO SOW.” Matthew 13:1 The man who preaches the gospel is compared to a farmer who sows his fields with seed. As a farmer broadcasts the seed, some falls upon the hard, beaten path, some falls upon stony ground, and some falls among thorns. Of course, seed falling in such […]