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

“BEHOLD, I AM VILE” -Job 40:4 [KJV]               This was Job’s reply after listening to Almighty God describe the Majesty of His Glorious character.  This is good ground to be placed upon.  Because it is only when we hear God speak as God and reveal Himself to us as God that we know something of our own sinful character (Isaiah 6:1-5) .   However, according to the statement of Scripture in Job 1:1  God said, “That Job was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and hated evil.”  How can Job be perfect and vile at the same time?  Job was a believer like Abraham, David and all other believers who are made righteous and considered perfect only by receiving a justifying righteousness through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ (I Corinthians 1:30).   There is in every believer two natures.  That spiritual nature when we are made new creatures in Christ (II Corinthi...

“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.”   -Colossians 3:1 [KJV] There are a lot of things going on on the earth. Wars, natural disasters, disease, economic trials, and the list goes on!  All of these things have a great effect on those living on the earth.  Tell a dead man about these things and it has no effect.  Flatter him, and he is not affected. Threaten him and he is not affected.  The dead have no concern over the affairs of this life!      The believer is dead, and his life is hid with Christ in God. That being the case, we should not be affected by the things going on on earth any more than the dead in their graves are.  We are   “Risen with Christ”  therefore we are to “Seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God” (Colossians 3:1) .   -unknown preacher of righteousness

  Glory be to God the Father Glory to th’ Eternal Son Sound aloud the Spirit’s praises Hail the glorious Three-in-One!   May the grace of Christ our Saviour And the Father’s boundless love With the Holy Spirit’s favor Rest upon us from above.   Thus may we abide in union With each other in the Lord And posses in sweet communion Joys which earth cannot afford.   Thanks we give and adoration For the Gospel’s joyful sound Let the fruits of Thy salvation In our hearts and lives abound!  

Do you trust the Lord Jesus for the salvation of your soul?  Do you rest upon Him and His perfect obedience unto death for your salvation?   Do you believe He will grant to you what He has promised to everyone who believes Him, everlasting salvation and a heavenly inheritance that will never fade away?    By the grace of God and the witness of the Spirit, I trust you can answer “Yes I do” to these questions.  Well then, if you can rely upon Him for these great things, is it not reasonable to trust Him for the other things of this life, His constant presence and the daily necessities of life?     Remember the words of Romans 8:32; “He that spared not His Own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?”   The Lord provides for the birds of the air and the beasts of the field; He even pours out daily supplies of temporal mercies upon those who despise and blaspheme His holy nam...

" Beloved, if our hearts condemn us not, then have we confidence towards God." -I John 3:21 [KJV] A text misapplied, is like a bone out of joint, which puts the body to pain. This text may have such an effect upon the soul. For what poor sinner is there upon earth, but his heart must condemn him for coming short of God’s glory, and perfect obedience of His holy law? Must he therefore give up his confidence towards God? Yes, if we so understand the text. But surely this was not the apostle’s design: for this would effectually destroy love to God, and distress His poor children’s souls, by taking away the comfort of faith, that, “there is no condemnation to them in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1.)   What meaneth he then? Plainly to establish our hearts in the faith of God’s love to us in Christ, and from this love experienced in the heart, in love to our brethren in Christ. This is an experienced truth—if faith and love abate, our hearts condemn us, and our confidence...

"And Israel strengthened himself, and sat up on the bed." -Genesis 48:2 [KJV] This was an interesting moment in the life, or rather the death, of the patriarch, and may serve, my soul, to shew what ought to be the conduct of the believer in his last expiring hours. The imagination can hardly conceive any situation equally momentous, in every point of view, both as it concerns a faithful God, a man's own heart, and the church the dying saint is going to leave behind. What can form a more lovely sight than a dying saint, sitting up in the bed, (if the Lord permits the opportunity) and recounting, as Jacob did, the gracious dealings of the Lord, all the way along the path of pilgrimage - "The God which fed me," said Jacob, "all my life long unto this day: the angel (and who was this but Jesus?) which redeemed me from all evil." Pause, my soul. Anticipate such a day. Figure to thyself thy friends around thee, and thou thyself strengthened, ...

"We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts." -II Peter 1:19 [KJV] The "sure word of prophecy" is the mind of God revealed in the Scripture of truth. This is compared to "a light shining in a dark place." This "dark place" is the heart of man, and a dark place it is; and the light shining in the dark place is when the Spirit of God pours His own heavenly light into the dark heart. The Spirit of God works by the word of God. He makes use of the Scriptures of truth, by means of these blessed Scriptures to communicate light. There is no light in the Scriptures themselves; they cannot teach a man to profit, that being God's prerogative. They are a dead letter, nothing but a collection of words and syllables; there is no light in them, no, not a particle, but what the Spirit of God throw...