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Thought for the Day ~ 24 August, 2026 A.D.

My dear sir, I could write a long note indeed, upon your very great mistake in considering me as a great man . If we could have a personal interview--I think you would be quickly undeceived! Ah! how different I am--from what perhaps I appear to be to others when in the pulpit. Your mistake, however, has done me good . A whole quire of invective from an enemy could hardly have given me so keen a sense of shame. The Scriptures assure us that our hearts by nature, like coins from the same mint--are all alike. I hear my fellow-Christians complain of evils similar to what I feel. Otherwise I would have reason to conclude that there could not be one believer upon earth--so inconsistent, so evil, so vile beyond expression--as myself! Ah, dear sir! what would you have thought of me--had you seen me when I lived among the slaves? The sight of me would have been offensive to your eyes, and my vile speech would have struck you with horror! I was miserable and despicable in every vi...
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When the Good LORD Tries our Faith...

"Is the LORD among us or not?"   -Exodus 17:7 [KJV] A very awful question to proceed from the lips of any child of God. What was the cause of it? Why, the Lord tried their faith. That fails them: nature murmurs: the flesh wants gratification: they are athirst: they tempt the Lord: they chide Moses: he is in distress: he cries to the Lord, “What shall I do unto this people? they be ready to stone me.” Mr. Henry judiciously observes here, “They do in effect suppose, that Moses was an impostor: Aaron a deceiver: the pillar of cloud and fire a mere sham and illusion, which had imposed on their senses; that long series of miracles, which had saved, rescued, and fed them, a chain of cheats; and the promise of Canaan, a banter upon them. It was all so, if the Lord was not among them.  Observe, it is a great provocation to God for us to question His presence, providence, or promise; especially for His people to do it, who are so much obliged to trust Him.”    ...
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Come to Christ JESUS as an Empty, Poor Beggar...

"And God said, Ask what I shall give thee? " -I Kings 3:5 [KJV]   My honoured Lord! may I not, with all humbleness of soul, apply what was here said to Solomon, in the old testament dispensation, as said to all Thy redeemed under the new testament grace? Didst Thou not say, Lord! "Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My name, He will give it you. Hitherto ye have asked nothing in My name; ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full?"  -John 16:23, 24   I feel encouraged by this saying of my Lord; and I am come up, this evening, to my Lord, to get large supplies of grace, mercy, pardon, peace; yea, Christ Himself, with all His gifts, with all His fulness, and all His blessings. And sure I am, if my Lord will give me as large a hand to receive, as my Lord's hand is to give, I shall have a blessed time of it this evening. My soul, look to it, that thou take with thee all thy wants; yea, come as empty as the poorest beggar that ever appeared i...
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Spiritual Life ~ The Gift of God

"If thou knewest the gift of God, and Who it is that saith to thee, Give Me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water." -John 4:10 [KJV] We cannot know the nature, though we may know the necessity, of the gift of God, till we experience its power as revealed and shed abroad in our soul. Then we know some measure of the gift of God when we feel eternal life flowing through our spiritual veins. How do I know I live naturally? Is not my participation of natural life known to me by an internal consciousness that I possess it? I know I live, because I feel that I live. And so, if we have spiritual life, there will be, at times and seasons, an internal consciousness that we have it; we shall feel the spiritual heart beat, and the spiritual lungs breathe, and the spiritual eyes see, and the spiritual ears hear: in a word, we shall be internally conscious of those emotions and sensations which are peculiar to the life of God ...
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THE SOVEREIGN CURE OF DEATH, THE ETERNAL SOURCE OF LIFE

"They crucified Him."   - Matthew 27:35 [KJV]   A short sentence, replete with the greatest importance to a world of sinners: each word in it contains matter of sorrow, wonder, and joy. Here is a fund for meditation. O Christian, time can never explore its depths. It will be the glory of eternity to sing of, wonder, and adore a once crucified Jesus. Let us consider the agents—the work—and the subject.    (1st.) The agents—they. Who? Angels? No: they gaze and wonder at the cruel, awful deed; but share not in it. Devils? No: they instigate to it; they shout and applaud the deed, but effect it not. No, the work is done by beings, little lower than the angels; yet not devils, but men. Men of devilish natures, cursed passions, and wicked hands. With these they seize the innocent victim, doomed to direful agonies, and an ignominious death.    (2d.) The work. They crucified. O the bloody deed! Heaven that hour let fall a tear. There hangs— who? A man ...
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Audio Gospel Sermon ~ "Christ Fulfilled, Repent Therefore"

Christ Fulfilled, Repent Therefore (Acts 3:18-21). Message from preacher Clay Curtis (32 minutes).   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogCOKXZu5ZE
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The Christian Builder is Building for Eternity

"For which of you intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost?" -Luke 14:28 [KJV] Ponder, my soul, over this very striking similitude of thy Lord's, respecting the divine life. The figure of a builder is most aptly chosen; for the christian builder is building for eternity. And the figure of a warrior, which our Lord also joins to it, is no less so, for the battle is for life, and that life is eternal. Hast thou counted the cost? Hast thou entered upon the work? Is the foundation-stone, which God hath laid in Zion, the rock on which thou art building? Pause and examine. Be the cost what it may; the loss of earthly friends; the parting with every worldly pursuit; the scorn, contempt, and derision of all mankind; yea, the loss of life itself: if these come in the way of competition, art thou ready to give them all up?—   When thou hast answered these inquiries, go on, and see that thy foundation be really fixed on Christ. If so, it...
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