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 […]
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 […]
The BROTHERLY Spirit of the Lord’s Prayer (extract) “Our Father.” Matthew 6:6 But the Lord Jesus came to gather together His people of all nations and tongues around one mercy-seat, teaching them to say–”OUR Father;” thus uniting in the one “household of faith” Jew and Gentile, male and female, bond and free–all one in Christ, and […]
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 […]
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, […]
“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 soul, upon this […]