“Rise up, be our help, and redeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.”Psalm 44:26 It was not primarily or mainly on their own account that the psalmist urges this prayer; it was that the character of God might be made known, or that it might […]
Such is the wicked ambition which belongs to our nature, that when the question relates to the origin of our salvation, we quickly form diabolical imaginations about our own merits. Accordingly, we imagine that God is reconciled to us, because He has reckoned us worthy that […]
God loves you in eternity with that love with which He loves the Lord Jesus, for He beholds you in the light of the same loveliness in which He beholds Jesus Christ. Then He brings down the treasure of this love and loveliness, which is His […]
The following events took place on the day of this holy week that we call Thursday: Our Lord instructs His disciples to prepare for the Passover (Matt 26:17-19; Mark 14:12-16; Luke 22:7-113) Our Lord presides over the final Passover and forever transforms its illustrative commemorating power […]
It is the folly of the children of God to question his love because of the greatness of their afflictions, as if their interest did change with their condition, and God were not the God of the valleys as well as the God of the hills. […]