“If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all these thing.” Judges 13:23. This is a sort of promise deduced by logic. It is an inference fairly drawn from ascertained facts. It was not…
Read More“Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live.” Ezekiel 47:9. The living waters, in the prophet’s vision, flowed into the Dead Sea and carried life with them,…
Read More“For I will give the command, and I will shake the people of Israel among all the nations as grain is shaken in a sieve, and not a pebble will reach the ground.” Amos 9:9. The sifting process is going on still. Wherever we go, we are still being winnowed and sifted. In all countries…
Read More“Now be pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever in your sight; for you, Sovereign Lord, have spoken, and with your blessing the house of your servant will be blessed forever.” 2 Samuel 7:29. This is a promise pleaded, and so it yields double instruction to us. Anything which…
Read More“Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;” Romans 5:3. This is a promise in essence if not in form. We have need of patience, and here we see the way of getting it. It is only by enduring that we learn to endure, even as…
Read More“Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, your young men will come to you like dew from the morning’s womb.” Psalm 110:3. Blessed be the God of grace that it is so! He has a people whom He has chosen from of old to be His peculiar portion.…
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