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

"Underneath   are the   EVERLASTING ARMS ." -D EUTERONOMY 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

An aged saint was critically ill. When a dear friend came to visit him, the child of God said, “Read to me out of the book.” His friend asked, “Which book do you mean?” “There is only one true and faithful book, the Word of God,” the dying man said. He was absolutely right. There is but one book that deserves to be called the book. Let each of us devote our lives to the book of books, the Holy Scripture. This is the book to live by and the book to die by. This is the book of HISTORY, HIS–STORY, the story of the Lord Jesus Christ. It tells of His glorious person, His life of perfection, His successful, justice-satisfying death on the cross to put away the sins of His people, His resurrection, His righteousness freely imputed to all of His people, His ascension back to heaven, His enthronement, His ongoing intercessory work, His continual providential rule over all creation and His second advent when He will come to judge the quick and the dead according to the standa

“ As we go to the cradle only in order to find a baby, so let us go to the Scriptures only to find Christ.” “ In the Bible we find the swaddling clothes and the manger in which Christ lies.” “ Every word in the Bible points to Christ.” “ I see nothing in Scripture except Christ and Him crucified.” “ Take Christ out of the Scripture and what will you find remaining in them?” - Martin Luther