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

"Trust in Him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before Him. God is a refuge for us. Selah." Psalm 62:8     My soul, the Holy Ghost hath marked this verse with Selah; therefore, pray observe it. You see the argument for trust, because God, that is, the Elohim, is a refuge. Yes, God the Father is a refuge, in his covenant engagements, word, oath, promises. God the Son is a refuge, in his suretyship engagements, in his perfect righteousness, in his blood-cleansing, sin-atoning death and salvation, and in all his securities of grace here, and glory hereafter. God the Holy Ghost is a refuge, in all his blessed offices, characters, and relations; by which he undertakes and fulfils all the purposes of salvation, in the glorifying of the Father and the Son, to every poor believer's joy and comfort.     And wilt thou not, my soul, then trust in this glorious Elohim? Wilt thou not pour out thyself before him, and trust in him at all times, at any time, at every tim...

A Splendid Little Scripture. D.G. Miles McKee   Romans 4:5,  'To him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth   (declares not guilty)   the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. '   What a strange yet splendid little verse. It flies in the face of every religious, man-made idea of how to get right with God. It tells us that God justifies the ungodly. And there´s wisdom here for if God exclusively justified the godly, nobody would ever be justified at all. Our predicament was simple … we could not save ourselves.  The  reason for this is that our best efforts were like us …  sinful!  But it gets worse.  God goes so far as to call our works ‘filthy (see Isaiah 64:6).  So the reality is that we were lost and without hope.  We had neither the ability nor the inclination to save ourselves. But at just the right time ( Ecclesiastes 3:1 ), the Lord Jesus came to this earth and performed the only work that coul...