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

When Jesus drank the cup of divine wrath in the place of the believer and all who will ever believe on Him, He drank that cup dry ....  If you belong to Him then there is nothing left in that cup of indignation for you dearly beloved, because your Lord drank every drop in your place.  It was not only an efficacious offering but vicarious as well.   “ For He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him ” (II Corinthians 5:21) . “ Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree" (Galatians 3:13) . -Lucien LeSage

" Thy loving kindness is before mine eyes." -Psalm 26:3 [KJV] This causes a peaceful conscience, a happy heart, and a holy life. What is meant by loving kindness? it is love expressed by action: the affection of the heart, manifested by acts of kindness. Thus the Lord speaks of His church in general, and of every individual member of it in particular, “I have loved thee with an everlasting love.” What then? This love manifests itself in time thus, “Therefore, with loving kindness have I drawn thee” (Jeremiah 31:3.) “I will betroth thee unto Me for ever in loving kindness” (Hosea 2:19.)   Being thus betrothed and drawn to the Lord, our souls have a sight and sense of His loving kindness. What is meant by its being “before our eyes?” Its engaging the attention of our mind, captivating the affection of our heart, seeing our interest in it, feeling the refreshments of it, and rejoicing on account of it; knowing there is no separation from it. Thus, everlasting ...

"I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in One." -John 17:23 [KJV] Think, my soul, to what a transcendant honour, to what a state of unspeakable happiness, the truly regenerated believer in Jesus is begotten. Who shall declare it; what heart shall fully conceive it? Mark, my soul, how graciously thy Redeemer hath pointed it out, in those sweet words. Observe the foundation of the whole, in that glorious mystery of union between the Father and the Son. This is at the bottom of all our mercies, and becomes the source and spring of every other. "Thou in Me," saith Jesus; not only as One in the nature and essence of the Godhead, in a sameness of nature, of design, of will, of perfections, and in all the attributes which constitute the distinguishing properties of Jehovah; but peculiarly as Mediator, the Head of the church and people, in communicating all the fulness of the Godhead to dwell bodily in Jesus, as the Glory-man, the God-man, t...