My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. John 5:17. O my poor soul, is not the blessed Trinity, thy God in three persons, able to destroy the works of the devil, and fulfil his good will in thee? O yes, he works both to will and to do: and the very thing which is...
What doest thou here, Elijah? 1 Kings 19:13 Let this question be supposed as addressed to us: What dost thou here in this world into which thou art sent? Art thou working “the work of Him that sent thee,” or standing all the day idle? How dost thou acquit thyself...
Prayer shall be made for him continually, and daily shall he be praised. Psa. 7:15 O what a condescending King we have, who may always be approached. Who would not pray? You say, O that my coldness and indifference would permit me to do it. But are you not...
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. Rom. 12:21. Who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? 1 Pet. 3:13. THE Christian life is a warfare, and the conflict between sin and holiness, and between sorrow and comfort, is...
"I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake. I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one." 1 John, 2:12,13. God...
"And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto a people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees; of fat things full of marrow, of wines in the lees well refined." Isaiah 25:6. A feast bespeaks of plenty, harmony, and joy. Many feasts were...
"Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy." Exodus 20:8. "I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day." Revelation 1:10. Reader, I know not who or what thou art; but may the God of all grace bless this meditation to thy soul. Perhaps thou art a careless sinner, who to...
"Thou shalt not be afraid of them; but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharoah, and unto all Egypt. Deut. 7:18. Be ye not terrified because of them; for the Lord your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save...
"Lead us not into temptation." Matthew 6:13. DIVINE ANSWER. "God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will, with the temptation, also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." 1 Corinthians 10:13. The nearer...