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The Harvest is Plenteous, But the Laborers Are Few
Looking to the great need in our congregations on this side of the ocean and in the Netherlands, I thought it fit to write about this need and the command of the King of His dearly-bought Church. The Lord Jesus went about all the cities and villages. Everywhere He saw throngs of people, also beyo ...
The Lesson of the Ant
“The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer.” —Proverbs 30:25We live in a time in which only that which is great is considered. Great things, great people, great words — all these prevail. Thus we are in danger of having no thought f ...
Come and See
The woman left her waterpot and went her way into the city.What a blessing it is if we are enabled to give a rich and alluring testimony of the Lord Jesus, of His service and of His ways, and if we may show forth the praises of Him who hath called us out of darkness into His marvelous ligh ...
A Divine Thirst
In this text the Lord uses a very natural and simple animal, the hart, to bring out the real experience of a child of God. Here we find in the life of David that the thirsting of his soul is compared to the thirsting of the hart. Psalm 42 is a psalm of David when he was in deep distress. In it he ...
The Birth of Obed
A few weeks ago we commemorated the birth of the promised Seed of the woman, the Son of God, the Bread of Life, who was laid in the manger of Bethlehem. The Lord had fulfilled His word of promise, “Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His Name Immanuel.” There was gladn ...
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
In this chapter you find several parables which belong together; what one does not tell us, we can find in the other. So it is with the parable of the mustard seed and also of the leaven. In both the Lord speaks about the kingdom of heaven, of which John the Baptist already had spoken, that it ha ...
The Harvest Is Ripe
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” God has made the seasons and the time. The coming and going of the seasons remind us of the frailty of our lives. In Ecclesiastes 3 we find written that there is a time to be born and a time to die. Between birth an ...
Pure Gratitude
Many are the reasons to be thankful; the more so where the sins of land and people reach unto the heavens! In the words of the apostle in the above text, he says, “In everything give thanks,” and then he wants this to take place, as it is required, in the proper manner, at the proper place, and w ...
The Waiting Church Encouraged
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.” —Habakkuk 2:3It is advent again and we may hear of the promises given unto a people lon ...
Christmas: The Love of God Manifested
“In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.” —1 John 4:9The apostle of love, John, has written this epistle. He emphasizes what is seen in the context, that is, what d ...
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