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

"There they made Him a supper." -John 12:2 [KJV] We are very apt to suppose the blessedness of those hallowed seasons in which the Lord Jesus ate and drank familiarly with His disciples, as peculiarly given to the followers of our Lord in the days of His flesh. And, no doubt, there was a precious savour which Jesus manifested upon those occasions. He that laid aside His garments, and condescended to wash His disciples' feet, may well be supposed to have said and shewn a thousand gracious things in those seasons, which are not recorded. But, my soul, depend upon it, if we make Jesus a supper, or if Jesus invites us to His own, which is the same thing, there will be always a blessed savour of His person, work, and righteousness, when His person is the subject of discourse, and His work and righteousness the rich food of the soul.   Our ordinary meals would be truly sanctified, if the love, and grace, and favour of the bountiful giver of them, became the chief conversation ...

  "Nevertheless My lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer My faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips." - Psalm 89:33-34 [KJV] We live in a changeable, ever-changing world. All without us is stamped with mutation, death, and decay; and as regards ourselves everything within us tells us how frail, weak, and mutable we are. Thus, as viewed by the eye of sense and reason, uncertainty and changeability are ever seen to be deeply stamped, not only on every event of time, but on all we are and have in body and soul; and this experience of what we feel in ourselves and see in all around us often wonderfully tries both our faith and hope, for we are apt to measure God by ourselves, and judge of our state before Him, not according to His word, but according to the varying thoughts and exercises of our mind.   But when we can look by faith through all these mists and fogs which, as resting on the lower gro...