Do you desire God? Stir up and enlarge your desires Let those narrow hearts open their mouths wide. Say with the psalmist, “This one thing I desire; nothing but God, nothing but grace. Take corn and wine who will, take the gold and the silver who […]
Life is the Porch of Eternity Here the believer dresses himself that he may be fit to enter in with the Bridegroom. We cannot say of a wicked man that life is his Though he lives, yet life is not his; he is dead while he […]
A sound belief in things unseen will cause practical estimation of them, and that above all earthly things. A glimpse of the heavenly glory as in a glass will cause the soul deliberately to say, “This is the chief desirable felicity; this is the crown, the […]
There is yet a redemption to come, which is called the redemption of our body (Rom 8:23). Of this redemption we have both the deposit and the seal, to wit, the Spirit of God (Eph 1:14, 4:30). And because the time to it is long, therefore […]
A contented Christian carries heaven about him For, what is heaven, but that sweet repose and full contentment that the soul shall have in God? In contentment there are the first fruits of heaven. There are two things in a contented spirit, which make it like […]