“And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.” Genesis 5:24 You have heard that Enoch walked with God, and you know it is an expression of great praise. Let me give you a clear notion of its meaning because people often get a habit of using words without exactly [...]
“But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” Job 23:10 To say that God is omniscient is to say that He possesses perfect knowledge and therefore has no need to learn. But it is more: it is to say that God has never [...]
"...But prayer..." Acts 12:5 But prayer is the link that connects us with God. This is the bridge that spans every gulf and bears us over every abyss of danger or of need. How significant the picture of the Apostolic Church: Peter in prison, the Jews triumphant, Herod supreme, the arena of martyrdom awaiting [...]
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” Psalm 23:4 Now we shall consider how God's Providence will be of singular use to us in our dying hour: It will sweeten our [...]
“It came to pass ... that the brook dried up”. 1 Kings 17:7 The education of our faith is incomplete if we have not learned that there is a providence of loss, a ministry of failing and of fading things, a gift of emptiness. The material insecurities of life make for its spiritual establishment. The [...]
"But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen. 2 Peter 3:18 The subject of the text which heads this page is one which I dare not omit in this volume about holiness. It is one that ought to [...]
"If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth." - Eccl 11:3 Why, then, do we dread the clouds which now darken our sky? True, for a while they hide the sun, but the sun is not quenched; he will be out again before long. Meanwhile, those black clouds are [...]
" I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name." Revelation 3:8 Saints who remain faithful to the truth of God have an open door before them. [...]
“Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. But he answered her not a [...]
"Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren." I Peter 1:22 A major evidence of the grace of God in our lives is love of the brethren. Throughout the New Testament, it is presented as such. In John 13:35 the Lord singles it out as [...]
“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” Philippians 4:6 In Philippians 4:6 we are exhorted to be "careful" for nothing. We have here a word that has changed its meaning. Today it means to exercise caution. But when our [...]
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than [...]
