The FaithFul of God
“A bruised reed shall He not break, and smoking flax shall He not quench.” —Matthew 12:20 Will Jesus accept such a heart as mine?—this erring, treacherous, traitor heart? The past!—how many forgotten vows—broken covenants—prayerless days! How often have I made new resolutions, and as often has the reed succumbed to the first blast of temptation, […]
“If need be.”—1 Peter 1:6 Three gracious words! Not one of all my tears has been shed for nothing! Not one stroke of the rod has been unneeded, or that might have been spared! Your heavenly Father loves you too much, and too tenderly, to bestow harsher correction than your case requires! Is it loss […]
“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.” —Revelation 3:19 Sorrowing Believer! what could you wish more than this? Your furnace is severe; but look at this assurance of Him who lit it. Love is the fuel that feeds its flames! Its every spark is love! Kindled by a Father’s hand, and designed as […]
“All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, unto such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.” —Psalm 25:10 The paths of the Lord! My soul! never follow your own paths. If you do, you will be in danger often of following sight rather than faith—choosing the evil, and refusing the good. But […]
“All things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” —Romans 8:28 My soul! be still! you are in the hands of your Covenant God. Were all the strange circumstances in your history the result of accident, or chance, you might well be overwhelmed. […]
“I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever.”—John 14:16 Blessed Spirit of all grace! how often have I grieved You! resisted Your dealings, quenched Your strivings; and yet You are still pleading with me! Oh! let me realize more than I do the need […]
“The Lord will give grace and glory.” —Psalm 84:11 Oh! happy day, when this toilsome warfare will all be ended, Jordan crossed—Canaan entered—the multitude of enemies of the wilderness no longer dreaded—sorrow, sighing, death, and, worst of all, sin, no more either to be felt or feared! Here is the terminating link in the golden […]
“I have the keys of hell and of death.” —Revelation 1:18 And from whom could dying grace come so welcome, as from You, O blessed Jesus? Not only is Your name, “The Abolisher of Death;” but You Yourself have died! You have sanctified the grave by Your own presence, and divested it of all its […]
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“The righteous shall hold on his way.” —Job 17:9 Reader! How comforting to you amid the ebbings and flowings of your changing history, to know that the change is all with you, and not with your God! Your spiritual vessel may be tossed on waves of temptation, in many a dark midnight. You may think […]
“Those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.” —Isaiah 40:31 “Will You not revive us, O Lord?” My soul! are you conscious of your declining state? Is your walk less with God, […]
“I am sure that God, who began the good work within you, will continue His work until it is finally finished on that day when Christ Jesus comes back again.” —Philippians 1:6 Reader! Is the good work begun in you? Are you holy? Is sin being crucified? Are your heart’s idols, one by one abolished? […]
“I will heal your backslidings.” —Hosea 14:4 Wandering again! And has He not left me to perish? Stumbling and straying on the dark mountains, away from the Shepherd’s eye and the Shepherd’s fold, shall He not leave the erring wanderer to the fruit of his own ways, and his truant heart to go hopelessly onward […]
“I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you.” —John 14:18 Blessed Jesus! How Your presence sanctifies trial, takes loneliness from the chamber of sickness, and the sting from the chamber of death! Bright and Morning Star! precious at all times, You are never so precious as in “the dark and cloudy day!” […]
“As your days, so shall your strength be.” —Deuteronomy 33:25 God does not give grace until the hour of trial comes. But when it does come the amount of grace, and the nature of the special grace required is granted. My soul! do not dwell with painful apprehension on the future. Do not anticipate coming […]