…no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous… “Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous; nevertheless afterward” (Heb. 12 vs 11). God seems to love to work by paradoxes and contraries. In the transformations of grace, the bitter is the base of the sweet, night is the…
The Undeviating Question “Lovest thou Me?” John 21:17 Peter declares nothing now (cf. Matthew 26:33-35). Natural individuality professes and declares; the love of the personality is only discovered by the hurt of the question of Jesus Christ. Peter loved Jesus in the way in which any natural man loves a good man. That is temperamental…
Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked? (Ecclesiastes 7:13) God often seems to place His children in places of deep difficulty,leading them into a corner from which there is no escape. He creates situations that human…
Reasonable Service Romans 12:1. The Christian life as ordained by God is meant to be a practical religion rather than tradition or systemic following of a preacher. A Christian is identified and verified by His practice of the tenets of God’s words. This word of God in conjunction with prayer is the laid down…
That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost “That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost” (II. Tim. I vs 14). God gives to us a power within which will hold our hearts in victory and purity. “That good thing which was committed unto thee,…
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him. Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him. (Psalm 37:7)Have you prayed and prayed, and waited and waited, and still you see no evidence of an answer? Are you tired of seeing no movement? Are you at the point of giving up? Then…
Wait on the Lord “Wait on the Lord” (Ps. 27 vs 14). How often this is said in the Bible, how little understood! It is what the old monk calls the “practice of the presence of God.” It is the habit of prayer. It is the continued communion that not only asks, but receives. People…
The Falling Away “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax-cold”. Matt. 24:12 In Christ’s prophecies of the signs of the last age, the Master gave this as one of the major signs of his arrival, but that this will happen is not the biggest head-ache, the greatest pain is this happening…
Nothing will be impossible for you. Nothing will be impossible for you. (Matthew 17:20) It is possible for believers who are completely willing to trust the power of the Lord for their safekeeping and victory to lead a life of readily taking His promises exactly as they are and finding them to be true. It…
