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

"Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." —John 1:29 [KJV] Nothing can make poor sinners truly happy, but that which taketh away the cause of all misery, sin. This is effected. The Lamb of God hath taken away all sin, by His sacrifice for us. When, by the eye of faith, we behold this Lamb, then all sin is taken away out of our conscience. When a soul thinks, 'Sin has condemned me before God; the law accuseth me daily; it works wrath in my conscience continually; and I am oft ready to cry out, O wretched that I am, who shall deliver me? '   Thanks be to God for a precious Redeemer. The Lamb, which God provided, hath done it for ever. All our iniquities were laid upon Him.  "He bare it in His own body on the tree , " the sin, the whole of sin, every sin of all that shall believe in Him, to the end of the world. By the sacrifice of Himself He put all away, out of the sight of God, as one puts away an offensive thing. He bore...

"Now when the even was come, He sat down with the twelve."   - Matthew 26:20 [KJV]   And now the even is again come, will Jesus graciously sit down with me? Wherefore, my soul, shouldest thou doubt the kindness of thy condescending Lord? It may be allowed, that in many of the tenderest incidents which passed between Jesus and His disciples while upon earth, there were some peculiarly suited, and designed to have a personal respect to them alone.  But in many things they were the representatives of Jesus' whole family; and hence every child of God may invite Jesus to sit down with him, and enjoy communion with him; that while Jesus speaks by His word to His people, and they to Him; as His whole heart and soul is theirs, so their whole hearts and souls may go forth, in all the sweet exercises of love and faith to Him, and a holy familiarity may take place between them. Come, then, Thou gracious Lord, and sit down with me, after all the toils of the day, a...

"Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps; set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest." -Jeremiah 31:21 [KJV]   To look at the past is often a blessed encouragement for the future. If we are travellers in the way Zionward, we shall have our various waymarks. A conspicuous call, or a signal deliverance, or a gracious manifestation of Christ; a promise applied here, or a marked answer to prayer there; a special blessing under the preached word; a soft and unexpected assurance of an interest in the blood of the Lamb; a breaking in of divine light when walking in great darkness; a sweet sip of consolation in a season of sorrow and trouble; a calming down of the winds and waves without and within by, "It is I, be not afraid" —such and similar waymarks it is most blessed to be able to set up as evidences that we are in the road. And if many who really fear God cannot set up these conspicuous waymarks, yet they are not without their ...