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

"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." -Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 "It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes." -Psalm 118:8-9 "Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9c "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." -John 5:24 [KJV] ---Jesus Christ the LORD, sent by the Father to effectually & fully SAVE poor, needy, wretched sinners by His own sovereign free grace and by His perfect righteousness charged to our accounts!

"My B eloved... standeth behind our wall. He looketh forth at the windows, shewing H imself through the lattice." -Song of Solomon 2:9 [KJV] It might be truly said, that it was behind the wall of our nature the Lord Jesus stood, when, by taking a body of flesh, He veiled the glories of His Godhead, during the days of His humanity. And may it not be as truly said, that it is still, as from behind a wall, all the gracious discoveries He now makes of Himself are manifested to His people? For what from the dullness of our perception, the unbelief, and the sins and infirmities of our nature, the most we see of our Jesus is but as through a glass darkly. But yet, my soul, how sweet are even these visits of His love, when we can get though but a glimpse of the King in His beauty, through the windows of ordinances, or the lattices of His blessed word. Oh, precious Jesus! let Thy visits be frequent, increasingly lovely, and increasingly glorious, that the souls of Thy people may in...