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

It is hard for us who have been shown mercy to believe there are people who show no mercy. I don’t mean to say that they never show any mercy, but they pick and choose when and to whom they will show mercy. When someone is offended by someone, becomes angry with someone for whatever reason, instead of “remembering mercy,” they often get vindictive, hard, malicious. This is in their reasoning how they show their disapproval, when they have been offended, or someone has done something they don’t agree with. For reasons only known to them, they feel like they are wise and this is the way to “get even” with the soul who was unfortunate enough to have crossed them, or did something that didn’t meet their approval. What if our God treated us this way when we acted contrary to His word and will? What if our Lord Jesus Christ “showed no mercy”, and manifested an angry, vindictive, hard, and cold attitude toward us when we displeased Him? What if He had the attitude “I w...

"But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead ." - II CORINTHIANS 1:9 [KJV] What is life naturally and what is death naturally? Is not that life in which there is breath, energy, movement, activity? And what is death but the utter cessation of all this moving activity and vital energy? To die is to lose life, and by losing life to lose all the movements of life. Thus, when the Lord takes, as it were, out of our heart and hands everything in which we once had life, in which we lived and moved and seemed to have our earthly, natural, and enjoyed being, and condemns it by His holy word, so as to record therein, and in our conscience as an echo to His voice, a continual sentence of death against it, He delivers us over unto death. And you will observe that none but the living family of God are so delivered: "For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake" ...

“ … Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.” -M ATTHEW 6:32 [KJV] What a rest is this for weary, burdened wayfarers! It is the assurance not only of a 'needs be' in whatever befalls them; but that all are the appointments of their heavenly Father. “Your heavenly Father!” With tender care for the minute and lowly, He makes grass to grow for the cattle, pencils the flower, sculptures the snow wreath, watches the sparrows fall, and feeds the young ravens. The unslumbering Shepherd keeps watch and ward continually, whether under the infinite blue of day, or under night with its starry galaxies. Though mysteries and perplexities are on every side, yet we can rely on the assurance that His are no arbitrary dealings, swayed by caprice, marked and misdirected by human blindness and ignorance; but the dictates of unerring wisdom and of unchanging everlasting love. Mark the Savior’s words. They are not “My heavenly Father;” but “your heave...