MAY 16 God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. (1 Timothy 6:17) Our Lord Jesus is always giving and does not for a single moment withdraw His hand. As long as there is a vessel of grace not yet full to the brim, the oil shall not be withheld. He is an ever-shining…
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MAY 15 Everyone who believes is freed from everything [justified, kjv]. (Acts 13:39) The believer in Christ receives a present justification. Faith does not produce this fruit later on, but now. So far as justification is the result of faith, it is given to the soul in the moment when it closes with Christ and…
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MAY 12 I will love him and manifest myself to him. (John 14:21) The Lord Jesus gives special revelations of Himself to His people. Even if Scripture did not declare this, many of the children of God could testify to the truth of it from their own experience. They have had manifestations of their Lord…
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MAY 11 I am with you always. (Matthew 28:20) It is good that there is One who is always the same and who is always with us. It is good that there is one stable rock amidst the billows of the sea of life. Let us not set our soul’s affections upon rusting, moth-eaten, decaying…
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MAY 10 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead. (1 Corinthians 15:20) The whole system of Christianity rests upon the fact that “Christ has been raised from the dead;” for “If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain” (verse 14)1. The divinity…
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MAY 9 … Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing. (Ephesians 1:3) Christ bestows all the goodness of the past, the present, and the future upon His people. In the mysterious ages of the past the Lord Jesus was His Father’s first elect, and in His election He gave us an interest,…
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MAY 8 The man who had been healed did not know who it was. (John 5:13) Years pass quickly for the happy and the healthy; but thirty-eight years of disease must have seemed like forever in the life of the poor impotent man. When Jesus, therefore, healed him by a word while he lay at…
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MAY 7 Many followed him, and he healed them all. (Matthew 12:15) What a variety of sickness must have been presented to the gaze of Jesus! Yet we do not read that He was disgusted but patiently waited on every case. What a combination of evils must have met at His feet! What sickening ulcers…
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“We dwell in him.“(1 John 4:13) Do you want a house for your soul? Do you ask, “What is the purchase?” It is something less than proud human nature will like to give. It is without money and without price. Ah! You would like to pay a respectable rent! Would you love to do something…
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“I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”2 Corinthians 6:16 What a sweet title: “My people!” What a cheering revelation: “Their God!” How much meaning is couched in those two words, “My people!” Here is speciality. The whole world is God’s; the heaven, even the heaven of heavens, is the Lord’s, and…
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