It Is Good

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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Raised from the Dead

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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All Ours

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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Partial Knowledge

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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Then and Now

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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Without Price

“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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The Lord’s Portion

“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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Our Royal Nature

MAY 4 You have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable. (1 Peter 1:23) Peter earnestly exhorted the scattered saints to love each other “earnestly from a pure heart” (verse 22), and he did so not on the basis of the law or human nature or philosophy, but from that high and…

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Expect Trouble

MAY 3 In the world you will have tribulation. (John 16:33) Are you asking why this should be, believer? Look upward to your heavenly Father, and behold Him pure and holy. Do you know that you are one day to be like Him? Will you easily be conformed to His image? Will you not require…

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A Selfish Wish?

MAY 2 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. (John 17:15) In God’s own time every believer will experience the sweet and blessed occasion of going home to be with Jesus. In a few more years the Lord’s soldiers, who are…

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