‘Be not afraid of their faces; for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord’ Jeremiah 1:8 Whenever fear comes in and makes us falter, we are in danger of falling into sin. Conceit is to be dreaded, but so is cowardice. ‘Dare to be a Daniel.’ Our great Captain...
‘Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself’ Isaiah 33:10 When the spoilers had made the land as waste as if devoured by locusts, and the warriors who had defended the country sat down and wept like women, then the Lord came to...
‘And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me’ Psalm 50:15 This is a promise indeed! Here is an urgent occasion– ‘the day of trouble.’ It is dark at noon on such a day, and every hour seems blacker than the one which came...
‘I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her’ Hosea 2:14 The goodness of God sees us allured by sin, and it resolves to try upon us the more powerful allurements of love. Do we not remember when the Lover of our souls first...
‘And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered’ Joel 2:32 Why do I not call on his name? Why do I run to this neighbor and that, when God is so near and will hear my faintest call? Why do I sit down, and devise...
‘Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out’ John 6:37 Is there any instance of our Lord’s casting out a coming one? If there be so, we would like to know of it; but there has been none, and there never will be. Among the lost souls in hell there is not one that...
