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

Finished For Us by  D.G. Miles McKee For the believer, salvation has been accomplished by the doing and dying of the Lord Jesus Christ alone (see Isaiah 63:3; Hebrews 1:3).   No man or angel can add anything to Him and His finished work (see Ecclesiastes 3:14). For this truth we are eternally grateful.   By the way, did you know that all that Christ did was done for us?   He was born for us  (Isaiah 9:6). For unto  us  a Child is born, Unto  us  a Son is given;  …    He was made a curse for us  (Galatians 3:13), Christ has redeemed  us  from the curse of the law, having become a curse  for us  (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree ").   He died for us  (2 Corinthians 5:14). For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;   He was wounded and bruised for us  (Isaiah 53:5). “But He was wounded  for our  ...

" Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the health of my countenance, and my God." — Psalm 42:11 [KJV]  We are not to expect the sunshine of joy all the way through this vale of tears. Comfortable frames and joyful feelings, though sweet and delightful, are not always so profitable to the soul. Were we always on the mount of joy, alas, we should forget we are strangers and pilgrims on the earth; but should be for building tabernacles of rest in a polluted place; and cry out with the highly-favored disciples, "It is good for us to be here; but they knew not what they said." — Luke 9:33 . It is the glory of a Christian to live by faith on Jesus; to judge of His Saviour's love from the word of truth, more than by sense and feeling; yea under dejection and disquiet of soul, then to hope and trust in God, to check and rebuke one's self for doubts and diffidence; this is trul...