WHICH WAY ARE YOU GOING? Genesis 4:1-5 Tom Harding We live in a most religious world. In every county, country and culture; among all people, without exception there is some form of religion. Did you know that all religions can be summed into two groups. The way of Cain or the way of Abel. Cain […]
EVERLASTING LOVE “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you!”Jeremiah 31:3 Believer! are you tempted now to doubt His love? Are His footsteps lost amid the night shadows through which He is now conducting you? Remember He had His eye upon you before the birth of time; […]
If God had not helped us! “I was pushed back and about to fall — but the Lord helped me!” Psalm 118:13 The psalmist had been reviewing his toils, his trials, and his dangers; he commemorates his deliverances, his conquests, and his triumphs; and he ascribes the whole, to the help of God!If God had not helped him — his faith […]
The Alluring James Smith, 1860 The Lord having chosen his people for himself — will bring them to know him, confide in him, and love him. So, when they have backslidden and wandered from him — he will employ means, that his banished ones be not expelled from him. Thus he brought Israel out of […]
It was not the nails! (J. C. Philpot) “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” Mark 15:34 It was not the nails driven through His hands and feet; it was not the crown of thorns placed upon His brow; it was not the stripes which mangled His back; it was not the languor and […]
“For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to support those who are tempted.” Hebrews 2:18 DO YOU THINK, my reader, was it no humiliation for the Son of God to be thus assailed by the prince of darkness? Was it no degradation, that His dignity should be questioned, His authority […]
Not Orphans! by James Smith, 1860 How exquisitely tender is the heart of Jesus! It always was so. He could never break the bruised reed, or quench the smoking flax. His heart overflows with love to poor sinners. How finely he displayed this, just as he was going to suffer for our sins. He exhorts […]
BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US… -Spurgeon, “Love” “We love God, because he first loved us.” Christian, he loved you before time began, and when in eternity he dwelt alone. He thought of you before you had a being. When as yet the sun and the moon were not– when the sun, the moon, and the stars […]
The Love of God James Smith, 1860 What subject can be compared to the love of God? What subject is so sweet, so profitable, so full of wonders! God, loving his people. The infinite, loving the finite. The Creator, loving his creature. The Most High God, loving a worm. The Holy One, loving the unholy. […]
Because he first loved us by Spurgeon “We love him because he first loved us.” -1 John 4:19 There is no light in the planet but that which proceeds from the sun; and there is no true love to Jesus in the heart but that which comes from the Lord Jesus himself. From this overflowing […]