March 06, 2025 You must be born again. - John 3:7 Regeneration is a subject that lies at the very basis of salvation, and we should be very diligent to make sure that we really are "born again," for there are many who imagine they are, who are not. Be assured that to...

March 05, 2025 Let us not sleep, as others do. - 1 Thessalonians 5:6 There are many ways of encouraging the Christian to stay awake. First, let me strongly advise Christians to talk to each other about the ways of the Lord. In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Christian...

March 04, 2025 My grace is sufficient for you. - 2 Corinthians 12:9 If none of God's saints were poor and tried, we should not know half so well the consolations of divine grace. When we find the wanderer who has nowhere to lay his head who still can say, "I will...

March 03, 2025 I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. - Isaiah 48:10 Comfort yourself, tried believer, with this thought: God says, "I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction" [KJV]. Does not the Word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the...

March 02, 2025 But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle. - 1 Samuel 13:20 We are engaged in a great war with the Philistines of evil. Every weapon within our reach must be used....

March 01, 2025 Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its spices flow. - Song of Songs 4:16 Anything is better than the dead calm of indifference. Our souls may wisely desire the north wind of trouble if that is to become the means of...

February 28, 2025 My hope is from him. - Psalms 62:5 It is the believer's privilege to use this language. If he is looking for anything from the world, it is a poor hope indeed. But if he looks to God for the supply of his needs, whether temporal or spiritual...

February 27, 2025 You have made the Lord your dwelling place—the Most High, who is my refuge. - Psalms 91:9 The Israelites in the wilderness were continually exposed to change. Whenever the pillar of cloud stopped, the tents were pitched; but the next day the...

February 26, 2025 Salvation belongs to the Lord! - Jonah 2:9 Salvation is the work of God. It is He alone who quickens the soul "dead in...trespasses and sins,"1 and He it is who maintains the soul in its spiritual life. He is both "Alpha and Omega." "Salvation...

February 25, 2025 … The wrath to come. - Matthew 3:7 It is pleasant to pass over a country after a storm has spent itself—to smell the freshness of the herbs after the rain has passed away, and to note the drops while they glisten like purest diamonds in the sunlight....