As for me, I will be vindicated and will see your face; when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness. Psalm 17:15. The portion of other men fills their bodies and enriches their children, but the portion of the believer is of another sort. Men of the world have their treasure in this world, but…
Read MoreThen Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” Genesis 50:24. Joseph had been an incarnate providence to his brethren. All our Josephs die, and a thousand comforts die with them.…
Read MoreHe provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever. Psalm 111:5. Those who fear God need not fear want. Through all these long years the Lord has always found meat for His own children, whether they have been in the wilderness, or by the brook Cherith, or in captivity, or in the midst of famine.…
Read MoreI am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it. Psalm 81:10. What an encouragement to pray! Our human notions would lead us to ask small things because our deservings are so small; but the Lord would have us request great blessings. Prayer should be as simple a matter as…
Read MoreHe will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. John 16:14. The Holy Ghost Himself cannot better glorify the Lord Jesus than by showing to us Christ’s own things. Jesus is His own best commendation. There is no adorning Him except with his own gold.…
Read MoreThere remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; Hebrews 4:9. God has provided a Sabbath, and some must enter into it. Those to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief; therefore, that Sabbath remains for the people of God. David sang of it; but he had to touch the minor…
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