An Excerpt from The Sympathy of Christ by Octavius Winslow Does Christ thus sympathize with us? does the Lord know our weak frames and remember that we are dust? Then let us go forth in perfect sympathy with Christ in everything, that relates to His truth, His kingdom, His people…Embraced by such a love, [...]
The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. Psalm 34:22 Amid the many changes and vicissitudes of time, how precious becomes this truth! Out of God, "nothing is fixed but change." "Passing away" is inscribed upon all earth's fairest scenes. How the heart [...]
But without a parable spake he not unto them: and 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 [...]
What is the place of prayer in your life? What prominence does it have in our lives? It is a question that I address to all. It is as necessary that it should reach the man who is well versed in the Scripture, and who has a knowledge of its doctrine and its theology, [...]
“Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.” Psalm 33:3 This is the first of nine references in the Bible to a “new song.” Appropriately, the song of Psalm 33 deals with the primeval event of creation, and it is the first psalm that does so. The new song is to [...]
For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your reward. Isaiah 52:12 Security from Yesterday. “God requireth that which is past.” At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has [...]
And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:10 Rightly so! We have the angelic warrant for rejoicing because Christ is born. It is a truth so full of joy that it caused the angel who came [...]
Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. Psalm 143:10 In the kingdom of God what we will is accepted as what we are. If any man will, said our Lord, let him. God does not desire to destroy our [...]
The same lesson is taught in a very striking way in the second passage in Luke to which I have already referred, Luke 18:1-8: “And He spake a parable unto them to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint; saying, There was in a city a judge, who feared [...]
And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? And he said unto them, this kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting. Mark 9:28-29 The church is so constituted that every member matters, and matters in a very vital sense. [...]
Why is it that God does not give to us the very first time we ask Him, the things that we ask of Him? The answer is plain: God would do more for us, and better for us, than to merely give us that thing. He would do us the far greater good of [...]
“And 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 In his early life Paul must have been keen on sport! He uses the phrases for the gymnast, the boxer, and the racer. He had [...]
