Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent!” —Luke 23:47— We cannot always or even often control events, but we can control how we respond to them. When things happen which dismay or appall, we ought […]
God respects you as much in a low as in a high condition, and therefore it need not so much trouble you to be made low. Not only so but, to speak home, he manifests more of his love, grace, and tenderness in the time of […]
“The nurse lets the child get a knock sometimes, in order to make it more cautious.” Thus does the Lord in Providence allow his children to suffer by their sins, that they may be more thoughtful in future. He has no hand in their sin; but, […]
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 […]
That blessed communion which is between Christ and believers is reciprocal in nature; we do not only partake of what is his, but he partakes of what is ours. He hath fellowship with us in all our wants, sorrows, miseries and afflictions; and we have communion […]
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