‘He giveth grace unto the humble’James 4:6. Humble hearts seek grace, and therefore they get it. Humble hearts yield to the sweet influences of grace, and so it is bestowed on them more and more largely. Humble hearts lie in the valleys where streams of grace are...
‘Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall we with you’Philippians 4:9. It is well when a man can with advantage be so minutely copied as Paul might have been. Oh, for grace to imitate him this...
‘For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance’Matthew 13:12. When the Lord has given to a man much grace he will give him more. A little faith is a nest egg; more faith will come to it. But then it must not be seeming faith, but real and...
‘In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength’Isaiah 30:15. It is always weakness to be fretting and worrying, questioning and mistrusting. What can we do if we wear ourselves to skin and bone? Can we gain anything by fearing and fuming? Do we not unfit...
‘The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace’Psalm 29:11. David had just heard the voice of the Lord in a thunderstorm, and had seen his power in the hurricane whose path he had described; and now, in the cool calm after the...
‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods’Ezekiel 34:25. It is the height of grace that Jehovah should be in covenant with man, a feeble,...
