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

" How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against GOD?" -Genesis 39:9 [KJV] Look now at young Joseph, and say, Is not this the noblest reasoning against a fierce temptation? Here is a youth in the bloom of life, in the vigour of nature, passions ran high, affections strong, a violent temptation presents, a fair seducer solicits. Yet, amidst all this, with the coolness of age, with the grace of faith he reasons, and with a holy fortitude of soul he withstands and overcomes the sin. Here is a blessed lesson for you, ye youth! nor less instructive to me, and to you, ye aged! Every period of life has its peculiar temptations. Ye children of special grace, ye contenders for its glorious doctrines, consider,  (1st.) What is implied in this, sin against God? Would not Joseph have sinned against the best of masters: against the wife of his master: against his own soul? Doubtless: but his God is above and beyond all other objects. The love of his gracious God wa...

" Prophecy is proof of God's infinite knowledge . If He did not know future things, there would have been a time when He was ignorant.  But every prophet's candle, in our way of thinking, was lighted by the torch of God's foreknowledge. But better still, the prophet's candle was lighted by the torch of God's infinite knowledge ." -copied

"Thus saith the L ORD , Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches; but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me." -Jeremiah 9:23, 24 [KJV] So we are allowed to glory. But in what and in whom? Not in ourselves; that is for ever disannulled. The Lord has purposed to pour contempt upon all human glory, that none should glory in himself, whatever he be or whatever he have. But when a man has a view of the Son of God in His beauty, in His suitability, in His heavenly grace and divine glory, then he can and may glory in the Lord. He can say, "O what a Lord there is above! How glorious is He in His excellency, in His suitability, and in His blessedness; how glorious His wisdom, His righteousness, His sanctification, and His redemption. Let my whole glory be there; let me not take to myself a single atom of it. If I am wise, let me give Him the...

"In that day, saith the L ORD , will I assemble her that halteth." - Micah 4:6 [KJV] Mark, my soul, the graciousness of thy God! Jesus is not only blessing His people when they follow Him, but He will bless them by recovering them when they halt. And of all the tokens of grace, that is the most endearing which is manifested over the aboundings of transgression. We have a passage similar to this in the writings of Isaiah, in which the Lord complains of the baseness of His people: "But thou hast not called upon Me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of Me, O Israel. Thou hast made Me to serve with thy sins, and thou hast wearied Me with thine iniquities."   One might suppose, after such a charge, and such instances of ingratitude, that the next account would be, that the Lord had given up Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches: but, no! what saith the Lord? "I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions, for Mine own sake, and will not ...