Vision and Darkness “An horror of great darkness fell upon him.” (Genesis 15:1) Whenever God gives a vision to a saint, He puts him, as it were, in the shadow of His hand, and the saint’s duty is to be still and listen. There is a darkness which comes from excess of light, and then…
Light! (Part 2) “And God saw the light, that it was good…” (Genesis 1:4) (Yesterday) we noticed the goodness of the light, and the Lord’s dividing it from the darkness. We now note the special eye that the Lord had for the light. “God saw the light”—He looked at it with complacency, gazed upon it…
Light! (Part 1) “And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.” (Genesis 1:4) Light might well be good since it sprang from that fiat of goodness, “Let there be light.” We who enjoy it should be more grateful for it than we are, and see more…
Have You Ever Been Alone With God? (Part 2) “When He was alone the twelve . . . asked of Him . . .” (Mark 4:10) His Solitude with Us. When God gets us alone by affliction, heartbreak, or temptation, by disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted affection, by a broken friendship, or by a new…
Have You Ever Been Alone With God? (Part 1) “When they were alone, He expounded all things to His disciples.” (Mark 4:34) Our Solitude with Him. Jesus does not take us alone and expound things to us all the time; He expounds things to us as we can understand them. Other lives are parables. God…
Divine Care Text: 1 Peter 5:6-7 Key Text: “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” (1 Peter 5:7, KJV) The nature of a man is created in such a way that he needs care. He walks about finding who will care for him in the things that he is short of,…
Prepare the Way of the Lord “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” — Luke 3 : 4 The voice crying in the wilderness demanded and a way for the Lord, a way prepared, and a way prepared in the wilderness. I would be…
Lay Aside Every Weight Text: Hebrews 12:1-2 Key Text: “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” (Hebrews 12:1, KJV) One…
Intimate With Jesus “Have I been so long with you, and yet hast thou not known Me?” (John 14:9) These words are not spoken as a rebuke, nor even with surprise; Jesus is leading Philip on. The last One with whom we get intimate is Jesus. Before Pentecost, the disciples knew Jesus as the One…
