John MacDuff “I will heal your backslidings.” —Hosea 14:4 Wandering again! And has He not left me to perish? Stumbling and straying on the dark mountains, away from the Shepherd’s eye and the Shepherd’s fold, shall He not leave the erring wanderer to the fruit of his own ways, and his truant heart to go […]
Does God Love Everyone? In answering this question many go straight to John 3:16 for the answer. The verse reads “ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Many will answer this question based on the verse […]
“We love him because he first loved us.” -1 John 4:19 There is no light in the planet but that which proceeds from the sun; and there is no true love to Jesus in the heart but that which comes from the Lord Jesus himself. From this overflowing fountain of the infinite love of God, […]
A Father’s hand! (Octavius Winslow) “My times are in Your hand!” Psalm 31:15 Our times of adversity are also in God’s hand. As every sunbeam that brightens, so every cloud that darkens, comes from God. We are subject to great and sudden reverses in our earthly condition. Joy is often followed by grief; prosperity is […]
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will not slumber… (Psalms 121:3) Your warfare, it seems, still continues; and it will continue while you remain here. But He is faithful that promised to make us more than conquerors in the last conflict, then we shall hear the voice of […]
The infinite ocean of Christ’s love! (Octavius Winslow, “The Emotion of Love in Christ”) The mind has often been sensible of a feeling of awe as we have stood upon the shore, and gazed upon the vast expanse of the ocean. With a similar, yet far transcending emotion, we approach the infinite ocean of Christ’s […]
A dead dog sinner! (David Eddmenson) Upon arriving to services one Wednesday evening to my surprise there was an old, mangy, rejected, and forsaken dog sitting on the front porch of the church building. I was appalled and repulsed at the dog’s sad appearance and horrible condition. This poor creature was in bad shape, yet all I can remember […]
“It shall be well with the righteous” – Isaiah 3:10In spiritual things, all your temptation, all your darkness, all your wandering: God will overrule. It shall be well with you. There shall never be a night, but that morning shall come; there shall never be a day of trouble, but a day of prosperity shall follow; there shall […]
“But God commendeth his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”—Romans v. 8. It is a very blessed heightening of divine mercies, when we behold them as not only bestowed upon those that deserved them not, but upon those that deserved the reverse of them. It is not […]
The Love Of God Tom Harding “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God” (1John 3:1). There is a great deal said in religious circles about the love of God, but few have a real scriptural concept of the truth of God’s love […]