How wonderful is this love that it manifested in giving Christ to die for us. For this is love to enemies… How wonderful was the love of the Father, in giving such a gift to those who not only could not be profitable to Him, but […]
The duty of believers is “to present their bodies to God as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to him,” and in this consists the lawful worship of him (Rom 12:1). From this is derived the basis of the exhortation that “they be not conformed to […]
Keep God’s covenant in your trials. Hold you by His blessed word, and sin not. Flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting. Forgive an hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents. For I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries […]
Humility is a loadstone that draws both the heart of God and man to it In Isa. 57:15, ‘Thus saith the high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of […]
The humility and lowliness of Christ is propounded by himself as a pattern for his people’s imitation. Matthew 11:29: “Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly.” He could abase and empty himself of all his glory (Phil 2:5-7). He could stoop to the meanest […]