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

"They made me keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept."   -Song of Solomon 1:6 [KJV] My soul, now the day is over, sit down, and look back on the employments of it. What a day hath it been? What portion of it hath been engaged in the service of thy Lord, and the improvement of thy soul? How wholly occupied in the busy and imperious demands of the world, the care of the body, and in procuring the bread that perisheth! Surely the complaint of the church is thine also. Keeper of the vineyards of others, thine own goeth to waste! And of what avail, in the path of grace, if though occupied by a thousand things in the aid of others, thou art making no progress in the heavenly road by thine own soul?   Are not the peace of thy life, and the glorious expectation of a better, to be advanced in the knowledge and enjoyment of Jesus? If I lose sight of Thee, Thou dear Immanuel; if the lively actings of faith upon Thee be remitted, will the recollection of attention

"And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment "   (margin,   sense ). -Philippians 1:9 [KJV] Love is especially the effect of knowledge; and love we know is a fruit of the blessed Spirit. As then the Lord the Spirit is pleased to open up the precious truth of God to the soul, love embraces what the Holy Ghost reveals. Thus there is a knowledge of the only true God by the teaching of the Spirit. But our love is to abound not only in knowledge, which is the foundation of it, because if there is no knowledge of the Lord there can be no love to the Lord or His people, but also in all feeling, in all sense, in all experience.   Spiritual knowledge, therefore, and experimental feeling are the two feeders of Christian love; the two streams, as it were, that run side by side out of the very throne of the most High, and meet and melt into that boundless river, love. And it is by this union of knowledge and experience, of divine light an

  Jesus Himself by D.G. Miles McKee                       The Bible is a book about Jesus. He is everywhere in the Scriptures. He is; The Alpha and Omega (Revelation 1:8) The Anointed One (Psalm 2:2) The Lord of Lords (Revelation 19:16) The Author of Life (Acts 3:15) The Mighty God (Isaiah 9:6) The Branch (Zechariah 6:12) The Bright and Morning Star (Revelation 22:16) The Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6) The Christ (Matthew 1:16) The Teacher (John 13:13) Everlasting Father (Isaiah 9:6) The Door (John 10:9) The Good Shepherd (John 10:14) Holy and Righteous One (Acts 3:14) The I Am (John 8:58) The True Vine (John 15:1) Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14) The King of Kings (Revelation 19:16) The Eternal Word (John 1:1) The Word of God (Revelation 19:13) The Lamb of God (John 1:29).   Jesus by Himself created everything. We read,  “ For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all t