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

"Try me, O God, and search the ground of my heart. Prove me and examine my thoughts. Look well if there be any wickedness in me, any root of bitterness yet undiscovered; and lead me in The Way Everlasting. Show me the true state of my soul. Bring me out from every false refuge. Strip off every deceitful covering, every covering that is not of Thy Spirit.  Forbid that the anchor of my hope should be cast, or the house of my dependence built, on any but Christ, the Rock of Ages. Forbid that I should rest short of that repentance which is Thy gift, and is connected with life eternal, and forbid, O forbid, that I should sit down without aspiring to that conformity unto Thee in righteousness and true holiness, abstracted from which repentance is false and faith is dead."  -preacher Augustus Toplady (1740-1778 A.D.)

"As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the LORD alone did lead them ." - Deuteronomy 32:11-12  [KJV] Here learn a lesson, to form some faint idea how the Lord is unceasingly engaged in taking care of His people. If thy God condescends to represent it by such a similitude, is it not both thy privilege and thy duty to mark the several particulars of such grace and tenderness? The eagle not only possesseth in common with other creatures, the greatest affection for her young, but manifests a vast superiority over every other of the winged tribe in her management of her brood. She provides for them and protects them, as other birds of the air do; but in educating them, and the method by which she shelters them from danger, here is displayed such superior wisdom and power, as far exceeds whatever we meet with in other creatures. "She stirreth up her nest:" by which we may unders...

High Noon! by D.G. Miles McKee I love the story of the ‘Woman at the Well’!  We find it in John 4:3-42 and it shows us, among other things, how Jesus loves to save lost sinners.  Here’s the story. In His mission of seeking and finding, the Good Shepherd leaves Judea to go to Galilee (v 3). He then diverts to Sychar, a city of Samaria (v 4).  Jacob's well was there and Jesus, upon arrival, being weary, sat down (v 6).  What a remarkable sight.  Jesus, God manifest in the flesh, the incarnate Word, the Creator and upholder of the universe; sits there, as a tired man, hungry, and thirsty. What astonishing things we see in the gospel! His disciples had gone into the city to buy food (v 8), and He is left alone.  He wanted to have a conversation with a poor helpless woman and in His sovereignty had chosen the exact time for this meeting … High Noon! She comes to the well at the appointed time (v7). Notice that Jesus was there before she arrived. Th...