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

Is Jesus Enough to Keep  You from Worrying? Part I by D.G. Miles McKee   “Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel."   -Isaiah 41:14 [KJV] This scripture gives us two wonderful grace words. They are, “ Fear Not.” In the Middle East there is an ancient fable that Pestilence met a caravan on the way to Baghdad. “Why must you travel to Baghdad?” asked the Caravan Master. “To take five thousand lives,” Pestilence answered.  On the way back Pestilence again met the caravan. “You deceived me,” said the caravan master. “You took 50,000 lives.” “No,’ insisted Pestilence. ‘I only took 5,000 lives. Worry killed the rest.” That was only a fable. But, here’s the fact … worry kills. At one time or another, most of us have been gripped with fear and worry. It’s no wonder then that these two words, ‘ Fear Not ’ are found frequently throughout the scriptures.  In fact, it has been said tha...

"Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow." - Psalm 51:7 [KJV] Here is majesty in misery: a king in penitence: a monarch of the earth at the footstool of mercy. David as a miserable sinner, polluted with the complicated crimes of adultery and murder, is here ascribing honour to the blood of the Lamb, by the pleading of faith. Had you now asked David, what he thought of the pleasures of sin? He would have read the most affecting lecture on its exceeding sinfulness, and that almost insupportable distress, terror, and horror it brought upon his soul.  Though invested with the government of a kingdom, yet he could not command away its terrors from his mind, its burden from his conscience, nor its pollution from his soul. He now found the words of his son fully verified, “Whoso breaketh through a hedge, a serpent shall bite him” (Ecclesiastes 10:8.) He had broken through the hedge of God’s law, and that old serpent who tempted him, now stings and torments him.  But w...

"And thou shalt not be for another man; so will I also be for thee." -Hosea 3:3 [KJV] My soul, was not God the Holy Ghost representing, by the similitude of His servant the prophet's marriage with an adulteress, the astonishing marriage of Jesus with our nature, and His personal-union with every individual of His church and people? Look at this scripture, and see how sweetly it points to Jesus. The prophet was commanded to love this woman beloved of her friend, and yet an adulteress. He was to buy her also to himself: and he was to charge her to abide with him, and not to play the harlot any more, saying unto her: "And thou shalt not be for another man, so will I also be for thee." Precious Jesus, do I not behold Thee in all this? Can any thing more strikingly shadow forth Thy grace, Thy mercy, Thy love, to Thy people? Was not our whole nature estranged from Thee, when Thou camest down from heaven to seek and save that which was lost? Were not all...

"For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness." -I Corinthians 1:22, 23 [KJV] The mystery of the cross can be received only by faith. To the Jews it was a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, it is the power of God and the wisdom of God . When, then, we can believe that the Son of God took part of our flesh and blood out of love and compassion for our souls; that there being no other way which even heaven itself could devise, no other means that the wisdom of God could contrive whereby sinners could be saved, but by the death of the cross, then the mystery shines forth with unspeakable lustre and glory. The shame, the ignominy, what the apostle calls the "weakness" and "foolishness" of the cross disappear, swallowed up in a flood of surpassing grace; and faith views ...