Let us bless God, not only for revealing His will in His Word, but for revealing it by writing Before the time of Moses, God disclosed His will by immediate revelations from heaven. But we have a surer word of prophecy (2 Pet 1:19). Surer than […]
In heaven there is perfect obedience There is no failing, not in the least circumstance. “Now I know in part,” said the apostle, “but then (that is, when he should come to heaven) shall I know even as also I am known” (1 Cor 13:12). Peter […]
The way to destroy ill weeds is to plant good herbs that are contrary. We have all heard of weeds choking the wheat; if we were wise we should learn from our enemy, and endeavor to choke the weeds by the wheat. Preoccupation of mind is […]
It should be the Christian’s chief care to obtain from God the choicest mercies The worldly are indeed easily put off with the meanest, because their inquiry is only who will show them any good. But O Christian! Let nothing please or satisfy you, but the […]
Keep at the greatest distance from sin, and from playing with the golden bait that Satan holds forth to catch you Anselm used to say, ‘That if he should see the shame of sin on the one hand, and the pains of hell on the other, […]