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 […]
‘The Justice of God in the damnation of sinners’ (extract from Jonathon Edwards) It would have been most Just with God for ever to have cast you off; But He has had Mercy upon you; He hath made His Glorious Grace appear in your “EVERLASTING SALVATION” You had no love to God; But yet He […]
REST IN THE CRUCIFIED “Come unto Me all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” “Peace be unto you. And when He had so said, He showed them His hands and His side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.” John 20:19, 20 That was a […]
THE BELIEVER SEEKING JESUS Spurgeon, “Lions Lacking– But the Children Satisfied” Once a man is saved, he seeks Jesus that he may praise him and put a crown on his head. His desire is– Oh, that my heart could find you! that all its strings might sing sweet music to you. Oh that my mouth […]