
Dagboeknotities bij het oude jaar
31 december 1697‘Ik heb dit jaar voleindigd. Ik klaag niet over de Heere, maar over mijzelf en over mijn ellendig hart. En wat mijn klachten nog doet toenemen, is het feit dat ik al zo dikwijls over mijn zonden heb geklaagd en niet verbeterd ben. Mijn toevlu ...

Useful Knowledge
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge, it is most necessary that we fear God. We are not qualified to profit by the instructions that are given us unless our minds be possessed with a holy reverence of God and every thought within us be brought in obedience to Him.… As all ...

Is There No Balm in Gilead?
We have here the prophet himself bewailing the calamity and ruin of his people, for there were more of the lamentations of Jeremiah than those we find in the book which bears that title.Observe here (1) how great his griefs were. He was an eyewitness of the desolation ...

„Blijf met ons”
„En zij dwongen Hem, zeggende: Blijf met ons...”Lukas 24:29aChristus hield Zich alsof Hij verder gaan zou. Hij zei niet dat Hij verder gaan wilde, maar hun scheen het alsof Hij verder ging en niet bereid was om met hen in het huis van hun vriend te gaan, daar dit voor een vreemdelin ...

Vluchtelingen
De Bijbel over vluchtelingenIn de Bijbel komen we, sinds de eerste mens, veel verschillende soorten vluchtelingen tegen. We ko-men ze ook tegen in het Bijbelrooster. Het rooster begint al met de vlucht van Lot uit Sodom. We lezen ook wat God van ons vraagt in de zorg voor vluchtelingen. Ko ...

Zie je mij?
Zie je mij? Hoor je mij? Denk je aan mij?Over deze en nog meer vragen en antwoorden kun je lezen in het Bijbelrooster.En na het lezen kunnen we er over nadenken. Na het nadenken de hulp van de Heere vragen om ook te doen wat de Bijbel ons leert over hulp naar anderen toe, naar je na ...

Mercies Received
1. That I am endued with a rational, immortal soul, capable of serving God here and enjoying Him hereafter, and was not made as the beasts that perish.2. That having powers and faculties, the exercise of them has been no wise obstructed by frenzies, lunacy, etc., but happily continued in t ...

A Weighty Question
Here a weighty question is asked. It is: By what means may the next generation be made better than this? “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?” Cleansing implies that it is polluted. Besides the original corruption we all brought into the world with us (from which we are not cleansed un ...

God's Provision
He waters the earth and makes it fruitful. On this instance of God's power and goodness the psalmist enlarges very much, the psalm being probably penned upon occasion either of a more than ordinarily plentiful harvest or of a seasonable rain after long drought. How much the fruitfulness of this l ...

The End of Summer
We have here the prophet himself bewailing the calamity and ruin of his people; for there were more of the lamentations of Jeremiah than those we find in the book which bears that title.Observe here, (1) how great his griefs were. He was an eyewitness of the desolations of his country, and ...