Reading: “My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies”—Song of Solomon 6:2 Just as we have that favourite place to walk, Jesus is indeed come down into His garden, the church, for He loves the sacred walks in a spot so [...]
Reading: “That will by no means clear the guilty,”—Exodus 34:7 Pause over these solemn words! Will Jehovah clear the guilty? And are you not guilty? How then will you come before God, either now or hereafter? Hear what God has also said: “Deliver him from going down to the pit. I have found a ransom” (Job [...]
Reading: “One pearl of great price”—Matthew 13:46 Great price indeed, and only one!—for salvation is in no other; neither is there any other name under heaven given among men whereby we can be saved. Christian, have you considered Jesus from this point of view? Have you beheld him both in His divine and human nature, [...]
Reading: “When my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock that is higher than I.”—Psalm 61:2 Yes, Lord! I would make this my morning, noon, and evening petition, that the great glorifier of Jesus—the Holy Spirit—would gently lead me to Him who is my rock. I know, dearest Lord, in theory, and can even [...]
Reading: “For verily he took not on him the nature of angels.”—Hebrews 2:16 Contemplate the peculiar sweetness of that grace which was in Jesus, when, for the accomplishment of your salvation He passed by the nature of angels to take on Him your nature. There were but two sorts of transgressors in the creation of [...]
Reading: “I am my beloved's, and his desire is towards me.”—Song of Solomon 7:10 Yes, dearest Jesus! I am truly yours, by every tie which can make me yours. I am yours by the gift of God the FATHER; by your own betrothing me to yourself; by the HOLY GHOST anointing me and making me [...]
Reading: “And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.” —Genesis 17:1 Our old Bibles, in their margin, have retained the original El Shaddai, which we now read God Almighty, and marked it also God [...]
Reading: “The year of my redeemed is come.”—Isaiah 63:4 Yes!—from everlasting, the precise period of redemption was determined, and the appointed time of the vision could not tarry. Every intermediate event ministered to this one glorious era: redemption by Jesus. The church was in Egypt four hundred and thirty years and in Babylon seventy. But [...]
Reading: “That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus.”—Ephesians 2:7 Gather in all the powers o£ arithmetic and try if you are able to count what the exceeding riches of God’s grace amount to. Think how great, how free, how sovereign, [...]
Reading: “And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.”— Luke 13:8–9 Do we not see the Lord Jesus here represented in His glorious office [...]