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Weak Grace Victorious
True faith, though weak, shall be preserved, and in the end prove victorious.This doctrine of the preservation of grace is the crown of glory, and sweetness of all other privileges. We should in the midst of regeneration, justification, adoption, droop and be Magor-missabibs, tormented wit ...
Two Reasons For God’s Love
What is the deepest reason why the Lord looked in compassion on mankind? Paul says: “For His great love.” Why then does God love mankind? The reason can be twofold. God can love a person because He delights to be his Benefactor; or, in His good pleasure, the Lord looks upon the creature who serve ...
New Year’s Meditation
Beloved Friends:Another year has run its course, and together we have entered upon a new year. It is indeed true that we spend our years as a tale that is told. Everything here below seems like a fleeting thought; and the older we get, the faster time seems to fly. We live in a busy world, ...
The Ornament of a Meek and Quiet Spirit
My Soul! where is this to be had? Hast thou considered it in its importance, or in its attainment; whence it cometh, and on whose account it is given? Sit down, and ponder over it. What is a meek and quiet spirit, but grace, in all its blessed properties and saving effects, keeping the heart and ...
Good Tidings of Great Joy
There was reason for the shepherds to fear. An angel of God appeared to them. We read that the glory of the Lord shone round about them. Every revelation of God and His heavenly power and glory will always cause fear in the hearts of men. God is the Most High and who can stand before Him and live ...
Easter: The Benefits of Christ’s Resurrection
Next comes the resurrection from the dead. Without this what we have said so far would be incomplete. For since only weakness appears in the cross, death, and burial of Christ, faith must leap over all these things to attain its full strength. We have in His death the complete fulfillment of salv ...
Conversion & Patience
The person speaking here is the highest Wisdom. It is Jesus Christ, who is Wisdom Himself. In the Old Testament He was known as the highest Teacher. “Who teacheth like Him?” asked Elihu. In the Proverbs of Solomon He is called by this same name more than once. Of this Wisdom it is said that she i ...
Humbled Enough For Sin?
Ah (saith the doubting Christian), I fear I was never yet humbled enough for sin. Were my heart broken enough, had I felt such heart-breaking and rock-renting tempests in my bosom as some have done, then I might hope to be exalted. But would you have such a hard, flinty-hearted wretch as I, think ...
Christ's Ascension and Intercession
First, Christ is pleading now for His people in heaven, in His exalted state. When He had offered up Himself a sacrifice on the cross, He ascended into heaven, and entered into the most holy place, and there prosecutes the same suit that he had commenced on the earth. Henc ...
Privileges of Those Espoused to Christ
1. That they may call God Father, and that is of more value than a thousand worlds. The most profane wretch may call Him Lord; the hypocrite may call Him Master; but Father is a kindly name, which only believers may call Him. They may at all times cry unto Him, Abba, Father. ...
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