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

   Grace finds us beggars—and leaves us debtors. Nothing in my hand I bring—simply to Your cross I cling! When Christ entered into Jerusalem—the people spread garments in the way. When He enters into our hearts, we pull off our own righteousness, and not only lay it under Christ's feet but even trample upon it ourselves. Grace alone, makes the elect gracious. Grace alone, keeps them gracious. Grace alone, will render them everlastingly glorious in the Heaven of heavens. The church of the elect, which is partly militant on earth, and partly triumphant in Heaven—resembles a city built on both sides of a river. There is but the stream of death between grace and glory! The greatest judgment which God Himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man—is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted free-will. -preacher Augustus Toplady (1740–1778 A.D.)

  "Thus saith the L ORD , Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches; but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth M e ." -Jeremiah 9:23, 24 [KJV] So we are allowed to glory. But in what and in whom? Not in ourselves; that is for ever disannulled. The Lord has purposed to pour contempt upon all human glory, that none should glory in himself, whatever he be or whatever he have. But when a man has a view of the Son of God in His beauty, in His suitability, in His heavenly grace and divine glory, then he can and may glory in the Lord. He can say, "O what a Lord there is above! How glorious is He in His excellency, in His suitability, and in His blessedness; how glorious His wisdom, His righteousness, His sanctification, and His redemption. Let my whole glory be there; let me not take to myself a single atom of it. If I am wise, let me give Him the glory of...