The PROMISE OF LIFE
"Having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." - I Timothy 4:8 [KJV] True religion lies deep; it is not a balloon hovering over us miles up in the air. It is like truth—it lies at the bottom of the well. We must go down, then, into religion, if we are to have it really in our hearts. The Lord Jesus Christ was "a Man of Sorrows, and acquainted with grief." He took the lowest, last, and least place. He was always down; so that if we are to be companions with the Lord Jesus Christ, we must go down with Him—down into the valley, down into suffering, down into humiliation, down into trial, down into sorrow. When we get puffed up by worldly joy, or elated by carnal excitement, we do not sympathise with the Lord Jesus Christ in His suffering manhood; we do not go with Him then into the garden of Gethsemane, nor behold Him as "the Lamb of God" on the accursed tree. We can do without Jesus very well when the world smiles, and carnal...