All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God: “You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.” Deuteronomy 28:2-3. The city is full of care, and he who has to go there from day to day finds it to be a place of…
Read More“When I see the blood, I will pass over you.” Exodus 12:13. My own sight of the precious blood is for my comfort; but it is the Lord’s sight of it which secures my safety. Even when I am unable to behold it, the Lord looks at it and passes over me because of it.…
Read More“I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.” John 14:18. He left us, and yet we are not left orphans. He is our comfort, and He is gone; but we are not comfortless. Our comfort is that He will come to us, and this is consolation enough to sustain us through His…
Read More“He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” Romans 8:32. If this is not a promise in form, it is in fact. Indeed, it is more than one promise, it is a conglomerate of promises. It is…
Read More“But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.” Malachi 4:2. Yes, when the sun shines, the sick quit their chambers and walk abroad to breathe the fresh air. When the sun brings spring and summer,…
Read More“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.” Malachi 4.2. Fulfilled once in the first advent of our glorious Lord, and yet to have a fuller accomplishment in His second advent, this gracious word is also for daily use. Is it dark with the reader?…
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