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

"For he endured, as seeing Him who is invisible." -Hebrews 11:27 [KJV] What a paradox! “Seeing Him who is invisible.” Is not this deemed the very height of enthusiasm? I dearly love that word. It signifies, being in God . And I love it, in the very sense carnal men use it too, for they mean, one who evidences the zeal and fire of godliness in his soul. Give me that man for my companion, who is cast off by the world, as an enthusiast. Is it any marvel that scriptural, experimental truths, are foolishness to the spiritually blind, and that they can neither endure the persons, nor the language of the children of faith?  Consider, (1st.) What did Moses endure? What you and I, and every enlightened soul is called to endure, “the reproach of Christ, and suffering affliction with the people of God.” Now this is opposed, by “enjoying the pleasures of sin for a season.” So that if you will but enjoy the pleasures of sin with the men of the world, you may escape the r...

"My Father is the husbandman."   -John 15:1 [KJV] Blessed truth, and blessed assurance, to the true followers of Jesus. Yes, Almighty Father! I would pray for Thy continual teaching, to behold Thee as the Husbandman of Thy vineyard, the church, in which Thou hast raised up the Plant of Renown, the Man whose name is the Branch, the true Vine, in whom, and upon whom, and through whom, all Thy redeemed, taken from the olive-tree that is wild by nature, are grafted, and bring forth fruit unto God. Yes, Almighty Father! I would desire grace to behold Thee, and while I behold, to love, to praise, to adore Thee, that from everlasting Thou hast graciously been the Husbandman of Thy church.  It was in Thee, and from Thee, as the contriver and appointer of all that concerned redemption, we trace the fountain and source of all that grace, mercy, peace, and favour here, with all the unknown treasures of glory hereafter, which Thou hast placed in His most blessed hands, who ...

"Underneath are the everlasting arms." -Deuteronomy 33:27 [KJV] How Moses brought before the people the eternity of God! He will have nothing to do with time. What is time? A fragment, merely like the foam of the sea compared with the mighty ocean. The ocean is eternity; time is merely the foam upon the wave. "Underneath are the everlasting arms." And depend upon it, if the everlasting arms are underneath the saints of God, for it is of and to them that the words are spoken, they are there for some purpose. God puts affliction upon affliction to bring the soul down, that it may fall into and upon the everlasting arms, and find how firm and strong they are. And have you not often found it so? Do not lie against your right. How many trials in providence you have been brought through. How conspicuously the Lord has appeared in this and that instance, so that your unbelief and infidelity were, for the time at least, thoroughly silenced, and faith saw the h...