WHAT it is for Christ to manifest Himself. Christ manifests Himself—when He makes a clearer revelation unto His disciples of the excellency of His person; when He further unveils Himself and lets forth some beams and rays with greater luster and brightness, to reveal more of the radiance and transcendence of His soul-ravishing beauty unto […]

“God is the Lord, who has showed us light.” Psalm 118:27 The Psalmist was clearly possessed of light, for he says, “God is the Lord, who has showed us light.” He was evidently, then, possessed of light; and this light was in him as “the light of life.” This light had shone into his heart; […]

PROVIDENTIAL OVERRULING “All things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” —Romans 8:28 My soul! Be still! You are in the hands of your Covenant God. Were all the strange circumstances in your history the result of accident, or chance, you might well […]

And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose for them.” Romans 8:28 (adapted from Octavius Winslow’s, “All Things Working for Good”) It is palpably clear and emphatically true that all that occurs in the Lord’s government of His […]

(extract from) Jesus the Great Prophet to His people  by J.C. Philpot One of the four promises of the New Covenant is, “I will put my laws into their minds, and write them in their hearts.” (Heb. 8:10.) This putting of his laws into their minds, and writing them in their hearts, is the fulfillment […]

PEACE IN BELIEVING “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you; not as the world gives.” —John 14:27 “You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You.” “Perfect peace!”—what a blessed attainment! My soul! is it yours? I am sure it is not, if you are seeking it […]

SOVEREIGNTY “How precious also are Your thoughts unto me, O God!” I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. Isaiah 45:7What a sad world this would be, were it governed by Fate. Were its blended lights and shadows, its joys and sorrows, the […]

THE LORD MY TEACHER “The Lord is my portion, says my soul.” “You are a teacher come from God.”–John 3:2 We cannot dispense with any one mediatorial office of Christ, least of all with His office as a PROPHET, or, TEACHER. He came to make known Salvation. Before He could officiate at His altar as Priest, […]

Alone Do you ever feel alone? Seemingly walking another direction from everyone else? Isolated? On your own? This is not uncommon for the Lord’s people. Sooner or later they will know what it is to walk this path – to be alone. The One they follow, and the Message they bring, is not welcome here, […]

….But whether we can clearly discern the difference between natural and spiritual light or not, or whether we can or cannot clearly describe it, the fact, the grand, the all-important fact still remains the same; that there is in the regenerated family of God a light, a life, a teaching, a power, an unction, a […]