‘Knowing that tribulation worketh patience’ Romans 5:3 This is a promise in essence if not in form. We have need of patience, and here we see the way of getting it. It is only by enduring that we learn to endure, even as by swimming men learn to swim. You could not...
‘But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you’ Matthew 6:33 See how the Bible opens: ‘In the beginning God.’ Let you life open in the same way. Seek with your whole soul, first and foremost, the kingdom of...
‘He shall save his people from their sins’ Matthew 1:21 Lord, save me from my sins. By the name of Jesus I am encouraged thus to pray. Save me from my past sins, that the habit of them may not hold me captive. Save me from my constitutional sins, that I may not be the...
‘I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not’ Isaiah 42:16 Think of the infinitely glorious Jehovah acting as a Guide to the blind! What boundless condescension does this imply! A blind man cannot find a way which he does not know. Even when he nows the road,...
‘The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished’ 2 Peter 2:9 The godly are tempted and tried. That is not true faith which is never put to the test. But the godly are delivered out of...
‘He will be our guide even unto death’ Psalm 48:14 We need a guide. Sometimes we would give all that we have to be told exactly what to do, and where to turn. We are willing to do right, but we do not know which out of two roads we are to follow. Oh, for a guide! The...
