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

Living in the Truth! by D. G. Miles McKee Speaking of one of his political opponents Winston Churchill said, “He occasionally stumbles across the truth but manages to pick himself up and hurries off as though nothing had happened.” Alas, some professing believers are also like that. For the gospel centred believer, however, truth is of utmost importance.  It´s neither optional nor the prisoner of subjective interpretation. In the Bible we encounter such expressions as,  "Those that know the  truth ;" (1 Timothy 4:3b), "Those that obey not the  truth ;" (Romans 2:8; Galatians 3:1; Galatians 5:7), "The  truth  as it is in Jesus;" (Ephesians 4:21), "Belief of the  truth ;" (2 Thessalonians 2:13), "Acknowledging of the  truth ;" (2 Timothy 2:25), "The way of  truth ;" (2 Peter 2:2), "We are of the  truth ;" (1 John 3:19),  "Destitute of the  truth ;" (1 Timothy 6:5), "Sanctify them through thy  trut...

" Thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the L ORD shall name." —Isaiah 62:2 [KJV] This is predicted of the church of God; which, according to covenant-transactions of the glorious Trinity, stands in the nearest and dearest relation to JESUS her Head. She is here spoken of as a single person, THOU : she is called "Christ's body," — Colossians 1:24, and "the bride, the Lamb's wife," —Revelation 21:9, of whom, saith God the Father, "I have loved thee with an everlasting love," —Jeremiah 31:3. Yea, saith the Son of God to His Father, of all His beloved members, "Thou hast loved them as Thou hast loved Me. . . .and Thou lovest Me before the foundation of the world , " —John 17:23, 24.  O most comforting truths of God's word! how ancient is the love of God to His church! That God should love us miserable sinners at all is amazing; but that He should love us with the very same everlasting unchang...

"Jesus Christ; the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever." -Hebrews 8:8 [KJV] Precious truth to open the year with, and to keep constantly in view amidst all the fluctuating and changeable circumstances arising both within and without, and all around! My soul, meditate upon it: fold it up in thy bosom to have recourse to as may be required. Contemplate thy Redeemer as He is here described. He is Jesus, thy Jesus; a Saviour, for He shall save His people from their sins. He is Christ also; God thy Father's Christ, and thy Christ: the Anointed, the Sent, the Sealed of Jehovah. He is the same in His glorious Person, the same in His great salvation:— "Yesterday;" looking back to everlasting: "Today;" equally so through all the periods of time: "For ever;" looking forward to the eternity to come.  And, blessed thought, He is the same in His love, in the efficacy of His redemption; His blood to cleanse, His righteousness to justif...

"Hold up my goings in Thy paths, that my footsteps slip not." -Psalm 17:5 [KJV] Without scrupulously or superstitiously observing "days, and months, and times, and years," few of us altogether pass by so marked an epoch as the dawning of another year upon our path without some acknowledgment of it both to God and man. When we open our eyes on the first morning of the year, we almost instinctively say, "This is New-year’s day." Nor is this, at least this should not be, all the notice we take, all the acknowledgment we make of that opening year of which we may not see the close.  When we bend our knees before the throne of grace, we mingle with thankful acknowledgment for the mercies of the past year, both in providence and in grace, earnest petitions for similar mercies to be experienced and enjoyed through the present. Last evening witnessed our confessions of the many, many grievous sins, wanderings, backslidings, and departings from the l...