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“We will be glad and rejoice in Thee.” ~ Song of Solomon 1:4 ~ We will be glad and rejoice in Thee. We will not open the gates of the year to the dolorous notes of the sackbut, but to the sweet strains of the harp of joy, and the high sounding cymbals of gladness. “O come, let us sing… (more…)

“Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end?”~ 2 Samuel 2:26 ~ O my reader! thou art merely a professor, and not a possessor of the faith that is in Christ Jesus, the following lines are a true ketch of thine end. You are a respectable attendant at a place of worship; you go because others… (more…)

“What think ye of Christ?”~ Matthew 22:42 ~ The great test of your soul’s health is, What think you of Christ? Is He to you “fairer than the children of men “the chief among ten thousand” the “altogether lovely”? Wherever Christ is thus esteemed, all the faculties of the spiritual man exercise themselves with energy. I will judge of your… (more…)

“I came not to send peace on earth, but a sword.”~  Matthew 10:34 ~ The Christian will be sure to make enemies. It will be one of his objects to make none; but if to do the right, and to believe the I true, should cause him to lose every earthly friend, he will count it but a small loss,… (more…)

“And the LORD shall guide thee continually.”~ Isaiah 58:11 ~ The Lord shall guide thee.” Not an angel, but JEHOVAH shall guide thee. He said He would not go through the wilderness before His people, an angel should go before them to lead them in the way; but Moses said, “If Thy presence go not with me, carry us not… (more…)

“Lo, I am with you alway.”~ Matthew 28:20 ~ The Lord Jesus is in the midst of His church; He walketh among the golden candlesticks; His promise is, “Lo, I am with you alway.” He is as surely with us now as He was with the disciples at the lake, when they saw coals of fire, and fish laid thereon… (more…)

“And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.”~ Job 1:5… (more…)

“The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.”~ Isaiah 40:5 ~ We anticipate the happy day when the whole world shall be converted to Christ; when the gods of the heathen shall be cast to the moles and the bats; when Romanism shall be exploded, and the crescent of Mohammed shall wane, never… (more…)

“The night also is Thine.”~ Psalm 74:16 ~ Yes, Lord, Thou dost not abdicate Thy throne when the sun goeth down, nor dost Thou leave the world all through these long wintry nights to be the prey of evil; Thine eyes watch us as the stars, and Thine arms surround us as the zodiac belts the sky. The dews of… (more…)

“The spot of His children.”~ Deuteronomy 32:5 ~ What is the secret spot which infallibly betokens the child of God? It were vain presumption to decide this upon our own judgment; but God’s word reveals it to us, and we may tread surely where we have revelation to be our guide. Now, we are told concerning our Lord, “to as… (more…)

“I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.”~ Ezekiel 16:10 ~ See with what matchless generosity the Lord provides for His people’s apparel. They are so arrayed that the divine skill is seen producing an unrivalled broidered work, in which every… (more…)

“Call thy labourers, and give them their hire.”~ Matthew 20:8 ~ God is a good paymaster; He pays His servants while at work as well as when they have done it; and one of His payments is this: an easy conscience. If you have spoken faithfully of Jesus to one person, when you go to bed at night you feel… (more…)

“And there was no more sea.”~ Revelation 21:1 ~ Scarcely could we rejoice at the thought of losing the glorious old ocean: the new heavens and the new earth are none the fairer to our imagination, if, indeed, literally there is to be no great and wide sea, with its gleaming waves and shelly shores. Is not the text to… (more…)

“Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.”~ Proverbs 27:23 ~ Every wise merchant will occasionally hold a stock-taking, when he will cast up his accounts, examine what he has on hand, and ascertain decisively whether his trade is prosperous or declining. Every man who is wise in the kingdom of heaven,… (more…)

“I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”~ John 10:9 ~ Jesus, the great I AM, is the entrance into the true church, and the way of access to God Himself. He gives to the man who comes to God by Him four choice… (more…)

“Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened.” It is painful to remember that, in a certain degree, this accusation may be laid at the door of believers, who too often are in a measure spiritually insensible. We may well bewail ourselves that we do not hear the voice of… (more…)

“And lay thy foundations with sapphires.”~ Isaiah 54:11 ~ Not only that which is seen of the church of God, but that which is unseen, is fair and precious. Foundations are out of sight, and so long as they are firm it is not expected that they should be valuable; but in Jehovah’s work everything is of a piece, nothing… (more…)

“I am crucified with Christ.”~ Galatians 2:20 ~ The Lord Jesus Christ acted in what He did as a great public representative person, and His dying upon the cross was the virtual dying of all His people. Then all His saints rendered unto justice what was due, and made an expiation to divine vengeance for all their sins. The apostle… (more…)

  “I will make thy windows of agates.”~ Isaiah 54:12 ~ The church is most instructively symbolized by a building erected by heavenly power, and designed by divine skill. Such a spiritual house must not be dark, for the Israelites had light in their dwellings; there must therefore be windows to let the light in and to allow the inhabitants… (more…)

“They have dealt treacherously against the Lord.”~ Hosea 5:7 ~ Believer, here is a sorrowful truth! Thou art the beloved of the Lord, redeemed by blood, called by grace, preserved in Christ Jesus, accepted in the Beloved, on thy way to heaven, and yet, “thou hast dealt treacherously” with God, thy best friend; treacherously with Jesus, whose thou art; treacherously… (more…)

“Ye serve the Lord Christ.” ~ Colossians 3:24 ~ To what choice order of officials was this word spoken? To kings who proudly boast a right divine? Ah, no! too often do they serve themselves or Satan, and forget the God whose sufferance permits them to wear their mimic majesty for their little hour. Speaks then the apostle to those… (more…)

“Whose heart the Lord opened.”~ Acts 16:14 ~ In Lydia’s conversion there are many points of interest. It was brought about by providential circumstances. She was a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, but just at the right time for hearing Paul we find her at Philippi; providence, which is the handmaid of grace, led her to the… (more…)

“My people shall dwell in quiet resting places.”~ Isaiah 32:18 ~ Peace and rest belong not to the unregenerate, they are the peculiar possession of the Lord’s people, and of them only. The God of Peace gives perfect peace to those whose hearts are stayed upon Him. When man was unfallen, his God gave him the flowery bowers of Eden… (more…)

“Thou, O God, hast prepared of Thy goodness for the poor.”~ Psalm 68:10 ~ All God’s gifts are prepared gifts laid up in store for wants foreseen. He anticipates our needs; and out of the fulness which He has treasured up in Christ Jesus, He provides of His goodness for the poor. You may trust Him for all the necessities… (more…)

“I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.”~ 1 Corinthians 9:22 ~ Paul’s great object was not merely to instruct and to improve, but to save. Anything short of this would have disappointed him; he would have men renewed in heart, forgiven, sanctified, in fact, saved. Have our Christian labours been aimed… (more…)

“Girt about the paps with a golden girdle.”~ Revelation 1:13 ~ One like unto the Son of Man” appeared to John in Patmos, and the beloved disciple marked that He wore a girdle of gold. A girdle, for Jesus never was ungirt while upon earth, but stood always ready for service, and now before the eternal throne He stays not… (more…)

“And the Lord shewed me four carpenters.”~ Zechariah 1:20 ~ In the vision described in this chapter, the prophet saw four terrible horns. They were pushing this way and that way, dashing down the strongest and the mightiest; and the prophet asked, “What are these?” The answer was, “These are the horns which have scattered Israel.” He saw before him… (more…)

“Even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”~ Romans 8:23 ~ This groaning is universal among the saints: to a greater or less extent we all feel it. It is not the groan of murmuring or complaint: it is rather the note of desire than of distress. Having received an earnest,… (more…)

“The Lord mighty in battle.”~ Psalm 24:8 ~ We may our God be glorious in the eyes of His people, seeing that He has wrought such wonders for them, in them, and by them. For them, the Lord Jesus upon Calvary routed every foe, breaking all the weapons of the enemy in pieces by His finished work of satisfactory obedience;… (more…)

“Behold, all is vanity.”~ Ecclesiastes 1:14 ~ Nothing can satisfy the entire man but the Lord’s love and the Lord’s own self. Saints have tried to anchor in other roadsteads, but they have been driven out of such fatal refuges. Solomon, the wisest of men, was permitted to make experiments for us all, and to do for us what we… (more…)

“O that men would praise the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men.”~ Psalm 107:8 ~ If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified. Let us daily praise God for common mercies common as we frequently call them, and yet so priceless, that when… (more…)

“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”~ Jeremiah 8:20 ~ Not saved! Dear reader, is this your mournful plight? Warned of the judgment to come, bidden to escape for your life, and yet at this moment not saved! You know the way of salvation, you read it in the Bible, you hear it from… (more…)

“Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels.”~ Revelation 12:7 ~ War always will rage between the two great sovereignties until one or other be crushed. Peace between good and evil is an impossibility; the very pretence of it would, in fact, be the triumph of the powers of darkness. Michael will always… (more…)

“Spices for anointing oil.”~ Exodus 35:8 ~ Much use was made of this anointing oil under the law, and that which it represents is of primary importance under the gospel. The Holy Spirit, who anoints us for all holy service, is indispensable to us if we would serve the Lord acceptably. Without His aid our religious services are but a… (more…)

“Seeking the wealth of his people.”~ Esther 10:3 ~ Mordecai was a true patriot, and therefore, being exalted to the highest position under Ahasuerus, he used his eminence to promote the prosperity of Israel. In this he was a type of Jesus, who, upon His throne of glory, seeks not His own, but spends His power for His people. It… (more…)