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…

I called him, but he gave no answer.Song of Songs 5:6 Prayer sometimes lingers, like a petitioner at the gate, until the King comes with the blessings that she seeks. The Lord, when He has given great faith, has been known to test it by long delays. He has allowed His servants’ voices to echo…

In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit.Luke 10:21 The Savior was “a man of sorrows,”1 but every thoughtful mind has discovered the fact that down deep in His innermost soul He carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy. Of all the human race, there was never a man who had…

Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am.John 17:24 O death! Why do you touch the tree beneath whose spreading branches weariness finds rest? Why do you snatch away the excellent of the earth, in whom is all our delight? If you must use your…