"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

"Where a sincere love to Christ is in the heart, there will be obedience; " If a man love Me indeed, that love will be such a commanding and constraining principle in him, that, no question, he will keep My words ." Where there is true love to Christ, there is a value for His favor, a veneration for His authority, and an entire surrender of the whole man to his conduct and government. Where love is duty follows; it is easy and natural, and flows from a principle of gratitude."   -preacher Matthew Henry (1662-1714 A.D.)

" Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him." -Genesis 42:8 [KJV] How affecting is the history of Joseph! Who can read it without emotion of soul? What amazing scenes of Providence open to our view! Spiritual minds may see many things in it typical of our beloved Saviour. Here, Joseph’s brethren are introduced to him, as governor of Egypt. He knew them: they knew not him. How does he deal with them? Does he instantly make himself known to them?  No: though he had the most tender affections of heart to them, and wept tears of joy at the sight of them; yet he speaks roughly, and sends them to prison. Why this? to bring their sin to their mind, and to affect them for their cruelty towards him, with a deep sense of their guilt. See we not somewhat typical of the conduct of Christ, our Brother in the flesh, in all this?  (1st.) Christ knew us before we knew Him: He knew us from eternity, when we were chosen in Him, and given to Him.  (2d.) We never seek afte...

" The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the L ORD on the head of them." -Micah 2:13 [KJV] Pause, my soul, over this precious scripture, and ask thine own heart who this Almighty Breaker (- Breacher ) can be, except the Lord Jesus Christ; for He, and He alone, answers to such a divine character. Was it not He which came up as the Breaker from everlasting; when, in the council of peace, the divine decree was broken open, and the Son of God stood forth the sinner's Surety?  Was it not He Whom John saw by vision, Who alone was found worthy in heaven to open the book, and loose the seals thereof? Was it not the same precious Holy One, Who, when in the volume of the book it was found written of Him, that He should fulfil the law of Jehovah for sinful man, cried out, "Lo, I come?" And was it not Jesus, even thy JESUS, my soul, that i...

"Yet a little while, and the world seeth Me no more; but ye see Me: because I live, ye shall live also." -John 14:19 [KJV] Communion with Christ rests on three things—seeing Him by faith, living upon His life, and experiencing His manifested presence. But all these three things depend on His resurrection and a knowledge of its power. As risen from the dead, the saints see Him; as risen from the dead, they live a life of faith upon Him; as risen from the dead, He manifests Himself unto them; and as life and feeling spring up in their souls from sweet communion with Him, the power of His resurrection becomes manifest in them.  This communion, therefore, with the Lord Jesus as a risen Head all the reconciled and justified saints of God are pressing forward after, according to the measure of their grace and the life and power of God in their soul. It is indeed often sadly interrupted and grievously broken through by the sin that dwelleth in us. But the principle is ...