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Gentleness
The text for this meditation is also recorded in 2 Samuel 22:36b. There it is history. In the Psalms it is, as it were, prepared for the chief musician and recorded for an even larger audience. Matthew Henry notes that others may make use of it to thank God for their deliverances. Now ...
Fruitful Death
Verily, verily, I say unto you.” “Verily, verily!” Here Christ would instruct His disciples, but the matter is hard. The mind does not understand it when the heart does not receive it. However, the truth does not change. “Verily, verily, I say unto you.”“Except a corn ...
Weepers in the Way
Weep not for MeWhat a distressing scene! A great procession is walking through the streets of Jerusalem. Jesus of Nazareth has been condemned to die the most painful and shameful death the heathen Romans could invent. Bloodied and weak, He crumbles under the ...
Commencement of Passion
The time of Passion is commencing. The Passion is the suffering and death of Christ. Since Genesis 3 this world has become the place of suffering, but in the Passion the center place of suffering is directed to Christ—He suffered— the just for the unjust. He placed Himself under the in ...
A Serious Admonishment at the End of the Year
Again, a year lies behind us—a year filled with blessings and sorrow but also full of God’s mercy and goodness. Is it not His goodness that we—compared to so many others who have been taken away by the cold hand of death— may still be in the day of grace? What a labor of love the Lord ...
God’s Gracious Provision—Thanksgiving Day 2023
This is the question of the Lord Jesus after He has healed the ten lepers who had met Him near the end of His prophetic ministry as He traveled to Jerusalem. In accordance with God’s command, because of their leprosy, these ten were separated from other people. Yet, they had a common n ...
Be Not Proud
Now, as Christian went on his way, he came to a little ascent, which was cast up on purpose that pilgrims might see before them. Up there, therefore, Christian went, and looking forward, he saw Faithful before him upon his journey. Then said Christian aloud, ‘Ho! ho! So-ho! Stay, and I ...
Confessing One to Another
One to another! James uses this expression four times in his epistle, and he refers by this to the brethren, to the church. We are a church and let us talk about that. What does it mean that we are a church? What is a church for and do we really need a church? We come to church on Sund ...
No Rest
No intermission—that is what Jeremiah testified after Jerusalem had been destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar. There, on Jerusalem’s ruins, Jeremiah wept because of the sad consequences of sin. He wept especially about the cause of Jerusalem’s destruction, namely, Israel’s sins. No, the pr ...
The Way of Thy Statutes
June is the month when many graduations take place. We wish to congratulate all our graduates on their achievements. May the Lord graciously fulfill the many good wishes that are extended to you. Our wish for you is spelled out in the words of a psalm in which there is not a trace of h ...
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