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

“ Comfort ye, comfort ye M y people, saith your God.” - ISAIAH 40:1 [KJV]   This is a true description of God's living people when feelingly destitute of the witness and seal of the Blessed Spirit, and left longing for the gracious attention and comforting communications of the Loving Head and Husband. But in this state she is not, cannot be left. Does she mourn her barrenness? He will fill her with fruits of righteousness. Is she straitened? He will enlarge her coast. Does she fear shame and confusion? He will sweetly persuade her that He has borne the same for her. Is she grieved in spirit? He will abundantly comfort her. Does she feel herself forsaken? With great mercies will He gather her to Himself. Does she dread His wrath? She shall be lost in His love. Does she bewail her ignorance? She shall be taught of the LORD, allured to His sacred feet by the persuasive power of the Holy Spirit, brought by Himself to the enjoyment of obedience to His own covenant

"For we which have believed do enter into rest." -H EBREWS 4:3 [KJV] To rest is to lean upon something. Is it not? So spiritually. We want to lean upon something. The Lord H imself has given us this figure. "Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her Beloved?" The figure of "a rock" on which the Church is built, "the foundation" which God has laid in Zion, points to the same idea, that of leaning or dependence. Now when the soul comes to lean upon Jesus, and depend wholly and solely on H im, it enters into the sweetness of the invitation. Have we not leant upon a thousand things? And what have they proved? Broken reeds that have run into our hands, and pierced us. Our own strength and resolutions, the world and the church, sinners and saints, friends and enemies, have they not all proved, more or less, broken reeds? The more we have leant upon them, like a man leaning upon a sword, the more have they pierced o

The Son of God very specifically tells us that He gave His life "a ransom for many" (MATTHEW 20:28) . It is nowhere suggested or implied in the Word of God that Christ made atonement for, redeemed, or ransomed the entire human race, many of which were already in hell when He died. Those for whom Christ died are described as "many," not all, because these many are a distinct and peculiar people. They are the "many" who are ordained unto eternal life (A CTS 13:48) , The "many" the Father has given to the Son (J OHN 6:37-39) , The "many" whose sins He bore on the cross ( I PETER 2:24) , The "many" for whom His blood was shed for the remission of their sins (M ATTHEW 26:28) , The "many" who are made righteous by His obedience (R OMANS 5:19) , The "many" sons, He, THE C APTAIN OF THEIR SALVATION , brings to glory (H EBREWS 2:10) . -Copied

With blinded eyes I thought I saw A way to God for me. And long I stumbled on that path, Unable God to see. C HORUS : But, God in mercy came to me And gave me sight that I might see. There in His word revealed to me, Christ is the Way, Christ is the Way! I thought at first that I must go To Moses and his law; And in them find a starting place But never one I saw. I looked within my troubled heart While searching in my care; But all I found was sin and shame, No way to God was there. Then, all at once, before His W ord; I heard a herald say, “Behold the Lamb, the bloody Lamb This Jesus is God’s Way!” And even now, in unbelief, My eyes too often stray And wander to some earthly means And I would fall away. Chorus for last verse: But, God in mercy comes to me And gives me sight that I might see. There in His Word reveals to me. Christ is the Way, Christ is the Way! -Words by preacher Gary Shepard Hymn

"I am God, and not man." -H OSEA 11:9 b [KJV] We speak sometimes of the attributes of God, and we use the words to help our conception. But God, strictly speaking, has no attributes. His attributes are H imself. We speak, for instance, of the love of God, but God is love; of the justice of God, but God is just; of the holiness of God, but God is holy; of the purity of God, but God is pure. As H e is all love, so H e is all justice, all purity, all holiness. Love, then, is infinite, because God is infinite; H is very name, H is very character, H is very nature, H is very essence is infinite love. He would cease to be God if H e did not love, and if that love were not as large as H imself, as infinite as H is own self-existent, incomprehensible essence. The love of the Son of God, as God the Son, is co-equal and co-eternal with the love of the Father; for the holy Trinity has not three distinct loves, either in date or degree. The Father loves from all eternit