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

"By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left."   -II Corinthians 6:7 [KJV]   What sign shewest thou? Shew us a miracle, and we will believe you are inspired, says an evil and adulterous generation. A sign and a miracle! Why, every regenerate soul is both a sign and a wonder to carnal men. They are born from above—They live above—their views, end, and aims are to things above. They study to approve themselves to God, who is above. These words, though peculiarly applicable to the ministers of Christ, yet are true also of every disciple of Christ.    He studies to approve himself, (1st.) by the Word of Truth . What is that? Where is that to be found? God’s book, the Bible. O the Bible! Say some weak heads, and deceived hearts, the letter of scripture is not God’s word. Find a surer testimony of God, and from God, if you can. We will be content to fix our faith upon this word of truth, for it tes...

"The wilderness of sin."     -Exodus 16:1 [KJV]   My soul! thou art still in a wilderness state, not yet arrived home to thy Father's house; and thou art frequently exercised with wilderness dispensations. Perhaps, under the Spirit's teaching, an evening's meditation on the wilderness of sin, where Israel sojourned, will be profitable to thee. Let faith lead thee thither, and see what subjects are there opened before thee. Was there ever an instance like Israel, which was brought out with a high hand, and stretched out arm, from the tyranny of Egypt?   Did the sea open a path for them to march through; and that memorable spot, which to them became the way of salvation, become to their enemies that pursued them, the pit of destruction? Did the Lord go before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and cover them from danger by the pillar of fire by night? After such miracles, yea, in the moment of receiving the same continuance of divine favour, while on th...

Faith’s Vision is not Foggy! by D G Miles McKee     Saving faith is not a quality within us that we rest upon. We are saved entirely by a finished work which is outside of and apart from us. Faith takes a hold of the fact that Christ has shed His blood and has gained our acceptance with God.  Faith takes hold of the good news that in our name and on our behalf, Jesus Christ has met and fulfilled every legal and righteous requirement needed to restore us to God. Faith declares that the Christ event is sufficient and complete and that nothing whatsoever can be added to or taken away from it.   That Jesus Christ alone saves is faith´s declaration. Christ Jesus is perfect and His work is complete (John 19:30) . Salvation, however, is not a matter of Christ plus faith. This is where so many depart from clear Gospel thinking. They believe their faith has made them accepted to God. But faith never makes us accepted before God. We are only accepted in the accep...

"Our fathers trusted in Thee: they trusted, and Thou didst deliver them. They cried unto Thee, and were delivered: they trusted in Thee, and were not confounded." -Psalm 22:4, 5 [KJV]   O what a blessed thing it is to have in one's own bosom a secret trust in Jesus —that whilst so many are looking to something in themselves or in one another, resting their eternal salvation on works that really are but the sports of a child, the saint of God is reposing upon the Lord of life and glory! On Him he hangs his hope, and in Him he puts his trust. These the Lord will honour; nor will He ever disappoint their hope or put their confidence to shame. Whoever trusted in the Lord and was confounded?    If you are enabled to trust in Him, to believe His faithful word, to discard all creature confidence and to hang the weight of your soul—and O what a weight is that!—upon a faithful, covenant-keeping God, He will never leave, fail, or forsake you. You may find it hard to...

"Kiss the Son."     - Psalm 2:12 [KJV]   A short command. For brevity, like the poesy of a ring: but comprehensive, like the book of God. For it compriseth all that the Scriptures require of us, and promise to us. It means, that we live in holy love, and walk in sweet friendship with the Son of God.    For, (1st.) a kiss is a token of reconciliation. Kiss and be friends, is a common proverb. “The kisses of an enemy are deceitful,” (Proverbs 27:6.) Christ has experienced this, by the kiss of Judas. Though sinners against Christ, yet He loved us: though enemies to Him, yet He died for us. The belief of this love destroys our enmity. The breach between God and us is made up. We are reconciled to God, and have peace with Him, through Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1.) How did reconciling grace operate upon the heart of that vile sinner, Mary? She kissed her Lord’s feet, while, with tears of penitential sorrow, she washed them (Luke 7:38.) O! give the recon...

"I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another." -Job 19:25-27 [KJV]   What sublimity is in these words! and what blessed glorious truths do they contain! Here is Job's creed. My soul, see if it be thine. Job did not say, that he had heard of a Redeemer, and that he hoped it was true, and he gave credit to it; but he saith, he knoweth it . And observe who this Redeemer is. Job calls him his Goel, his Kinsman-Redeemer . For the right of redemption belonged to the nearest of kin, and he might redeem; Leviticus 25:25. We have lost our inheritance, forfeited our possession, and are poor indeed, both in person and in substance.    Now as Christ, by virtue of His being our nearest of kin, is the one, the Blessed One, the only One to whom the right of redemption bel...