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

"A certain man made a great supper, and bade many." -Luke 14:16  [KJV] Is not this certain man designed to represent the Father of mercies, and God of all grace? And is not the great supper intended to set forth the full, generous, free, and plentiful feast made for poor sinners by Jesus Christ in His gospel? My soul! thou art invited, for the message of grace is to the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. Jesus keeps a noble house, and it is an open house. The evening is come -the hour of supper is arrived: arise then, and accept the invitation. Behold, Lord, I am come! And now what are the spiritual delicacies of Thy table?     First, methinks I hear the generous Lord proclaim a hearty welcome. And it is a sweet thought for my poor soul to cherish, that in whatever heart Jesus is welcome, that heart is welcome to Jesus; for as a poor hungry sinner needs a full Saviour, so a full Saviour needs a poor empty sinner to give out of His fulness upon, and grace ...

"Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone; in Whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord." - Ephesians 2:20, 21 [KJV] Christ is the Head of every member individually, as He is the Head of the whole body collectively. Growth of the body, from babyhood to manhood, is the growth of individual members in the body. If, then, I am a member of the mystical body of Christ Jesus, I shall grow. My growth may be so slow and gradual as to be scarcely perceptible; but it will be growth still. If I have union with Christ, I shall be supplied, at least in some measure, out of His fulness. He is my life, and He has promised, because He lives, I shall live also; and if I live by Him, I shall live upon and unto Him. Paul could say, "The life which I live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God ; " and also, "And that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which ...