DELGIHT If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. Psalm 119:92 Trials, tribulations and persecutions are part and parcel of the Christian life. We are lights in a fallen and corrupted world (Matt 5:14). Our...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
DISGRACE “I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting.” Isaiah 50:6 What paid for our sins, trespasses and offenses against almighty God were the wrath...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
HUMBLE GRACE He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; Psalm 91:4 In his excellent Treasury of David, Mr. Spurgeon comments upon this portion of the verse, “Had it been invented by an uninspired man it...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
HEARD PRAYERS IN CHRIST If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. Psalm 66:18 Surely, the psalmist could not have penned this verse except he had a gracious eye upon grace. There are moments in the heart’s...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
RANSOMED WITH PRICELESS TREASURE knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 1 Peter 1:18 Gold and silver have long been symbols of value. On earth, to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
CHILDREN OF GOD IN CHRIST The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.Isaiah 11:8 In a sermon he preached from the text of Isaiah 11:10 in 1884, we recognize that Mr....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
BREVITY AND FRAILTY OF LIFE yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.James 4:14 It seems as if it were only yesterday that the Lord revealed Himself to me...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
DEPRAVED FROM BIRTH The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.Psalm 58:3 Although I’ve read this verse at least twice per year for the past three and a half decades, and though I’ve quoted it...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
IN HIS WINGS …in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge.. Psalm 57:1 No one has ever experienced the “storms of destruction” like our Lord, Jesus Christ. As the perfect Man hanging upon Calvary’s tree, His soul,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THE INCARNATION AND PRESENCE “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” Isaiah 7:14 The virgin birth is the incredible and glorious sign given...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
