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

Christ as our Mediator stands Between our souls and God Upon both parties lays His hands Presenting His precious blood.   Christ is my Rock, on Him I build My life, my hope, my All His promise shall be fulfilled He will not let me fall.                     - Isaac Watts   *****   "It is to me always sufficient if I find a truth taught in Scripture: I ask no more.   If I do not understand it, I am not particularly anxious to understand it: if it be in the Scriptures, I believe it.   I like those grand, rock truths of the Bible which I cannot break with the hammer of my understanding, for on these I lay the foundations of my soul’s confidence."             - C. H. Spurgeon     REDEMPTION WORTHY OF PRAISE Revelation 5:9   When the saints in Heaven sing of the redemption which Christ accomplished by His death, they do not sing of the redemption of all men. Not ...

"Having food and raiment, let us be therewith content."   -I Timothy 6:8 [KJV] Man wants but little: that little not long. But unbelief multiplies our wants, and magnifies our discontent. God rains down manna. The people are delighted with it; but are not content to trust God for the morrow’s supply. They gathered more than would serve for one day. What was the consequence? “It bred worms and stank” (Exodus 16:20.) Here distrust and unbelief prevailed, and abundance begot discontent. O ye rich and great, is it not so with you? And thou, O my soul, thy pittance is more than St. Paul here requires. Art thou content? No riches, without Christ, and the riches of His grace, can bring content to the mind.    But when Christ vouchsafes to fulfil that precious word, (Revelation 2:17,) “I will give to eat of the hidden manna , ” then we shall have heart content, though we have no more coats than backs, and but just food enough to satisfy our hunger. For faith suppl...

"Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips." - Isaiah 6:5 [KJV]   My soul! Thy last evening was deeply exercised on that glorious subject, the holiness of Jehovah. Let this evening's meditation call thee to what ought immediately to follow; thy unholiness and corruption. What a transition! And yet what more suited for meditation? The prophet Isaiah, who had been admitted to the view of a vision, like that which John the apostle saw in the after ages, beheld the glory of Christ, and heard those who cried, "Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of Hosts!” and the effect was as is here related. His consternation was so great, concluding that he should be struck dead (agreeably to what holy men of old had conceived, that the sight of God would produce death), that he cried out, "Woe is me, I am undone."   Pause, my soul! thou art also "a man of unclean lips!...

"At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel." -Isaiah 17:7 [KJV] In the very name "the Holy One of Israel," there is something the sweetness of which melts the heart of a poor sensible sinner. For what is he in himself as a fallen child of Adam? A filthy, defiled, polluted wretch, unfit for the presence of God. And what can fit such an unclean, unworthy, deformed sinner for the eternal presence and enjoyment of the Triune Jehovah, but such a Saviour as the Holy One of Israel, whose blood, as a holy fountain, cleanseth from all sin?  The soul that stands in Him, stands complete, without spot or blemish. And must not his heart leap and dance when with a measure of faith he is able to lay hold of this Holy One of Israel? But this living faith in and spiritual reception of the only Mediator between God and man cannot exist until a man is brought into circumstances in which he needs the Holy One of ...