“Although my house is not so with God, Yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things and secure. For this is all my salvation and all my desire; Will He not make it increase?” 2 Samuel 23:5. This is not so much one promise as an aggregate of promises —…
Read More“Their soul shall be as a watered garden.” Jeremiah 31:12. Oh, to have one’s soul under heavenly cultivation; no longer a wilderness but a garden of the Lord! Enclosed from the waste, walled around by grace, planted by instruction, visited by love, weeded by heavenly discipline, and guarded by divine power, one’s favored soul is…
Read More“As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.” Psalm 55:16. Yes, I must and will pray. What else can I do! What better can I do? Betrayed, forsaken, grieved, baffled, O my Lord, I will call upon Thee. My Ziklag is in ashes, and men speak of stoning me;…
Read MoreBehold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. Isaiah 48:10. This has long been the motto fixed before our eye upon the wall of our bedroom, and in many ways it has also been written on our heart. It is no mean thing to be…
Read More“I will judge between cattle and cattle.” Ezekiel 34:22. Some are fat and flourishing, and therefore they are unkind to the feeble. This is a grievous sin and causes much sorrow. Those thrustings with side and with shoulder, those pushings of the diseased with the horn, are a sad means of offense in the assemblies…
Read More“I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God.” Ezekiel 34:15. Under the divine shepherdry saints are fed to the full. Theirs is not a windy, unsatisfying mess of mere human “thought,” but the Lord feeds them upon the solid, substantial truth of divine revelation. There is…
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