Lifted Up Be their shepherd and carry them forever.Psalm 28:9 God’s people need to be carried. They are very heavy by nature. They have no wings, or if they have, they are like the dove of old that lay among the pots; and they need divine grace to make them rise up on wings covered…

Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them.Isaiah 3:10 It is well with the righteous ALWAYS. If it had said, “Tell the righteous that it is well with them in their prosperity,” we would be thankful for so great a blessing, for prosperity is an hour of peril. It is a gift from…

He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.Leviticus 1:4 Our Lord’s being “made … sin”1 for us is pictured here by the very significant transfer of sin to the bullock, which was done by the elders of the people….

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.Psalm 51:14 In this solemn confession, it is helpful to observe that David plainly names his sin. He does not call it manslaughter or speak of it as an imprudence by which an unfortunate accident occurred…

In the name of the Lord I cut them off!Psalm 118:12 Our Lord Jesus, by His death, did not purchase a right to just a part of us, but to all of us. He pondered in His passion our complete sanctification—spirit, soul, and body, that in every area He Himself might reign supreme without a…

Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LordIsaiah 2:3 It is exceedingly beneficial to our souls to rise above this present evil world to something nobler and better. The cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches are apt to choke everything good within us, and we grow fretful, desponding, perhaps…

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.Isaiah 53:6 Here a confession of sin is shared by all the elect people of God. They have all fallen, and therefore, in one voice, from the first…

It is the time to seek the Lord.Hosea 10:12 The month of April is said to derive its name from the Latin verb aperio, which means to open, because all the buds and blossoms are now opening, and we have arrived at the gates of the flowery season. Reader, if you are not yet saved,…

Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens. And she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.2 Samuel 21:10…

Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!Lamentations 3:40 The wife who fondly loves her absent husband longs for his return; a long protracted separation from him is a semi-death to her spirit. And so it is with souls who love the Savior much; they need to see His face; they…