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....

February 24, 2025 I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing. - Ezekiel 34:26 Here is sovereign mercy—"I will send down the showers in their season." Is it not sovereign, divine mercy? For who can say, "I will send down...

February 23, 2025 I will never leave you. - Hebrews 13:5 No promise is for private application. Whatever God has said to one saint, He has said to all. When He opens a well for one, it is that all may drink. When He opens a granary-door to give out food, there may be...

February 22, 2025 His bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob. - Genesis 49:24 The strength that God gives to His Josephs is real strength; it is not a boasted valor, a fiction, a thing of which men talk but which ends in...

February 21, 2025 … For he has said … - Hebrews 13:5 If we can only grasp these words by faith, we have an all-conquering weapon in our hand. What doubt will not be slain by this two-edged sword? What fear is there that shall not fall smitten with a deadly wound...

February 20, 2025 God, who comforts the downcast. - 2 Corinthians 7:6 And who comforts like Him? Go to some poor, melancholy, distressed child of God; tell him sweet promises and whisper in his ear choice words of comfort; he is like the deaf adder that doesn't listen...