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

"Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace." -Romans 14:19 [KJV] What a sweetness is contained in the word "peace." Bunyan well represents this in his Pilgrim's Progress, where he speaks of Christian, after having been entertained in the "house Beautiful," going to sleep in the chamber called "Peace." And what blessed sensations are couched in that word "Peace!" It was the legacy that Jesus left to His Church. "Peace I leave with you, M y peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you;" and the Apostle says of it that it "passeth all understanding."   Now many even of the Lord's people seem as if they wanted and were expecting raptures. There is, I believe, a vast deal of enthusiasm in the natural mind of man, as is evident from what I may call its religious history in all ages; and this leads many who, in other points, seem rightly taught to look for wonderful vis

  The Wonderful Cross   by D. G. Miles McKee (see Romans 3:23-28 ). “When I survey the wondrous cross, On which the young prince of glory died; My richest gain I count but loss And pour contempt on all my pride.” -Watts   Christ in His death opened the way into God's presence for us. Thank God for the Wonderful Cross! When Jesus said, “I am the way” (John 14:6) He meant, He was and is the only way to God.  If you are looking for God anywhere else other than the Lord Jesus, you, according to the Master, are going the wrong way. To look for another way is a subtle attack on the Lord Jesus.  Why? Because Jesus is not one of many ways, He is the way! He didn’t even say His teachings led to the way. No indeed, He boldly declared “I am the way.”   ‘The way’ was a particularly important idea to Israelites. Moses had instructed them, “You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you" (Deuteron