“Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will fear you.” Deuteronomy 28:10. Then we can have no reason to be afraid of them. This would show a mean spirit and be a token of unbelief rather than of faith. God can make…
Read More“Remember these things, Jacob, for you, Israel, are my servant. I have made you, you are my servant; Israel, I will not forget you.” Isaiah 44:21. Our Jehovah cannot so forget His servants as to cease to love them. He chose them not for a time but forever. He knew what they would be when…
Read More“As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.” Isaiah 66:13. A mother’s comfort! Ah, this is tenderness itself. How she enters into her child’s grief! How she presses him to her bosom and tries to take all his sorrow into her own heart! He can…
Read More“Alas, Sovereign Lord,” I said, “I do not know how to speak; I am too young.”7 But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am too young.’ You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you.” Jeremiah 1:6-7. Jeremiah was young and felt a natural shrinking when…
Read More“I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.” John 12:46. Whosoever is a very wide term: it means you and me. If we trust in Jesus we shall no more sit in the dark shadow of death but shall enter into the…
Read More“You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.” Hebrews 10:34. This is well. Our substance here is very unsubstantial; there is no substance in it. But God has given us a promise of real estate in the…
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