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

Dangerous is the path we go, In this wilderness below, Savage beasts, of every kind, Aiming to distress the mind. Christ the Master, LORD of all, Bids His children watch and call; May it be our blessed case, Both to watch and seek His face. Scarce an hour but pilgrims see They from danger are not free; In some unexpected way, Something fills them with dismay. Thus beset, they daily feel They have neither strength nor skill Rightly to oppose the foe, Or to guard against the woe. When we watch, then may we pray, And in prayer watch every day; And with pleasure ever prove All our strength is from above. Thus supported, we shall be More than conquerors, LORD, through Thee; And when every danger's past, Live and reign with Thee at last!   -Tune: "Everlasting Love"

  “Moreover, the Law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded grace did much more abound.” -R OMANS 5:20 [KJV] “ Many there are who think that the Law is the Gospel and who teach that men by good works of benevolence, honesty, righteousness and sobriety, may be saved. Such men do err. On the other hand, many teach that the Gospel is a Law–that it has certain commands in it by obedience to which men are meritoriously saved. Such men err from the Truth and understand it not.” -C.H. Spurgeon: Law and Grace “Run, John, run, the law commands But gives us neither feet nor hands, Far better news the gospel brings: It bids us fly and gives us wings.” -John Bunyan (1628-1688 A.D. ) What a contrast there is between living under the Law and living in Gospel Grace. It can be best illustrated by the final words of the two covenants. The Old Testament ends with this somber and sober warning, “Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” The New...

"The entrance of T hy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple." -P SALM 119:130 [KJV] The word "simple" means literally something which is not folded or twisted together. But owing to the treacherous and desperately deceitful heart of man, all, without exception, in a state of nature are the reverse of this. All their plots and contrivances for worldly profit or fleshly pleasure are tangled and complicated; and they are continually twisting together some thread or other of carnal policy. But when God the Holy Ghost begins the work of grace upon the souls of the elect, He proceeds (if I may use the expression) to untwist them. He takes hold of that rope which Satan and their own hearts have been twisting together for years, and He untwists it throughout its whole length, so as to leave the strands not intertwined as before, but riven, separated, and torn from each other. The light that shines into the soul out of the fulne...