But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa.Jonah 1:3 Instead of going to Nineveh to preach the Word, as God told him, Jonah disliked the work and went down to Joppa to escape from it. There are occasions when God’s servants shrink from duty. But…
Read More ShareO Lord of Hosts, how long will you have no mercy on Jerusalem? … And the Lord answered gracious and comforting words to the angel.Zechariah 1:12-13 What a sweet answer to an anxious inquiry! This night let us rejoice in it. O Zion, there are good things in store for you; your time of travail…
Read More ShareTake up his cross daily and follow me.Luke 9:23 You do not make your own cross, although unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making; neither are you permitted to choose your own cross, although self-will wants to be lord and master. But your cross is prepared and appointed for you by divine love, and you…
Read More ShareThe Lord is slow to anger and great in power.Nahum 1:3 Jehovah “is slow to anger.” When mercy comes into the world, she drives winged horses; the axles of her chariot-wheels are red-hot with speed. But when wrath goes forth, it toils on with tardy footsteps, for God takes no pleasure in the sinner’s death….
Read More ShareDo you understand what you are reading?Acts 8:30 We would be more able teachers, and not so easily carried away by every wind of doctrine, if we sought to have a more intelligent understanding of the Word of God. As the Holy Spirit, the Author of the Scriptures, is the only one who can enlighten…
Read More ShareThen Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.Matthew 4:1 A holy character does not prevent temptation—Jesus was tempted. When Satan tempts us, his sparks fall upon tinder; but in Christ’s case, it was like striking sparks on water; yet the enemy continued his evil work. Now,…
Read More ShareThus says the Lord God: this also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them.Ezekiel 36:37 Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarcely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication. You have found this true in…
Read More Share“He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom.” Isaiah 40:11 Who is He of whom such gracious words are spoken? He is THE GOOD SHEPHERD. Why doth He carry the lambs in His bosom? Because He hath a tender heart, and any weakness at once melts His heart. The…
Read More Share“Joint heirs with Christ.” Romans 8:17 The boundless realms of His Father’s universe are Christ’s by prescriptive right. As “heir of all things,” He is the sole proprietor of the vast creation of God, and He has admitted us to claim the whole as ours, by virtue of that deed of joint-heir-ship which the Lord…
Read More Share“How precious also are Thy thoughts unto me, O God.” Psalm 139:17 Divine omniscience affords no comfort to the ungodly mind, but to the child of God it overflows with consolation. God is always thinking upon us, never turns aside His mind from us, has us always before His eyes; and this is precisely as…
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