My ruling desire! (James Smith, “Christ Exalted, Saints Comforted, and Sinners Directed” 1855) My ruling desire is to be wholly given up to the Lord and to His work, and to show forth His praises from day to day. But when I aim at this most — I am baffled, opposed, and always hindered! I […]
5:1. “I am come into My garden, My sister, My spouse–I have gathered My myrrh with My spice; I have eaten My honeycomb with My honey; I have drunk My wine and My milk. Eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved.” Scarcely is the invitation uttered, when acceptance sweetly comes. The echo of […]
GARDEN It would be wholly unnecessary to notice the name of garden (taken from the Hebrew word Gan), being so generally understood, were it not that the church of Christ is so frequently represented under the similitude. Indeed, the church is sometimes called gardens, to denote both their number and variety; by which is meant, […]
Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard, nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices.” Our attention is still fixed on the fertility of the garden. It is portrayed as abounding in all plants and […]
Christ first PRAISES HIS PEOPLE’S LOVE. Do you love God, my Hearer? Do you love Jesus? If not, stand back! These things have nothing to do with you—if you love not Christ, you have neither part nor lot in the matter. You are in the gall of bitter- ness and in the bond of iniquity. […]
Is Grace common? Do you believe in common grace? To answer this question one needs to be able to define what common grace is. Unfortunately, the term means different things to different people. For some common grace describes God’s good gifts or common provisions in nature such as sunshine and rain. Some see it in […]
THE PROMISE And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. Isaiah 46:4 The friends of your youth are gone, death or distance has stripped you of them. But your God […]
Psalm 121 True safety is from God alone. His protecting care is portrayed in attractive colors. May they win us to place all confidence in Him! 1-2. “I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from where comes my help. My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” The pious child […]
Union with Christ- J.C.Philpot (extract from A spiritual death and a hidden life.) How Christ is “our life.” Union with Christ is the grand truth revealed in the Scripture, and the fountain head out of which every blessing springs. But to understand this we must carry our thoughts upward and backward, to look at the […]
Christ’s garden (Charles Spurgeon) “I have come into My garden—My sister, My bride!” Song of Solomon 5:1 The heart of the believer is Christ’s garden. He bought it with His precious blood, and He enters it and claims it as His own. A garden implies separation. It is not the open common; it is not […]