Archive | March 2012
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The One Thing Needful
“One thing is needful; and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.” Luke 10:42 We must not pretend to serve God with only going to church, and doing other acts of outward devotion; while we are dead and cold, our religion is vain. Who first, by faith, seeks […]
The Whole Christ
“Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 1 Corinthians 9:25 He that overcometh shall inherit all things. Revelation 21:7 To be only an almost Christian is a very hard thing; but to be a Christian altogether makes […]
Spiritual Worshippers
“The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities; for we know not what we should pray for as we ought; but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us.” Romans 8:26 God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. God hath many worshippers on particular occasions who cannot be […]
Enamored of Christ
“Thy Maker is thy husband; the Lord of hosts is his name. The ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion, with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads.” Isaiah 54:5, 35:10 When Cyrus took the king of Armenia and his son Tigranes, and their wives and children, prisoners, and upon their humble […]
Transforming Light
“In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” John 1:4 “Whatever rational knowledge men may have of divine truths as they are doctrinally proposed in the Scripture, yet if they know them not in their respect unto the person of Christ as the foundation of the counsels of God, if they […]
The Most Powerful Love
“The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead; and that he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them, and rose again. 2 Corinthians 5:14, 15. If the love and power […]
Grace Crowned with Glory
“By the grace of God I am what I am.” 1 Corinthians 15:10 Be this my motto, both as to my natural and spiritual life: how else could I have existed at all. Had not foreknowledge planned, and wisdom contrived, and power put every atom together, and fixed my scene of action, I had never […]
Adorned with Grace
“Upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. The King’s daughter is all glorious within—her clothing is of wrought gold. Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house; so shall the King greatly desire thy beauty; for he is thy Lord, […]
Questions for the Heart
“Unto you, therefore, which believe, he is precious.” 1 Peter 2:7. Reader, put these few following questions to thine own heart, as in the presence of God: if thou canst answer them affirmatively, doubt not thy real interest in him, and in his great salvation. Is the Lord Jesus Christ precious to me, as he […]
The Narrow Way That Leads to Life
“Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat; but narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Matthew 7:13,14. This sounds too harsh in the ears of the old man, who would not have the law made use of in […]
