Scripture Concerning Damascus: Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard bad news; they melt in fear, they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet. — Jeremiah 49:23 (ESV) Devotional Little know we what sorrow may be upon the sea at this moment. We are safe in our quiet chamber, but far … Read more
Scripture And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. — Mark 2:4 (ESV) Devotional Faith is full of inventions. The house was full, a crowd blocked up the … Read more
Scripture But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. — Galatians 5:18 (ESV) Devotional He who looks at his own character and position from a legal point of view, will not only despair when he comes to the end of his reckoning, but if he be a wise man … Read more
Scripture That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, — Philippians 2:15 (ESV) Devotional We use lights to make manifest. A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could … Read more
Scripture Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep? — Job 38:16 (ESV) Devotional Some things in nature must remain a mystery to the most intelligent and enterprising investigators. Human knowledge has bounds beyond which it cannot pass. Universal knowledge is for God alone. If this … Read more
Scripture Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar! — Psalm 120:5 (ESV) Devotional As a Christian you have to live in the midst of an ungodly world, and it is of little use for you to cry “Woe is me.” Jesus did not pray that you … Read more
Scripture You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt. — Leviticus 19:36 (ESV) Devotional Weights, and scales, and measures were to be all according to the standard of justice. Surely no Christian man will … Read more
Scripture Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.” — Mark 1:41 (ESV) Devotional Primeval darkness heard the Almighty fiat, “light be,” and straightway light was, and the word of the Lord Jesus is equal in majesty to that ancient word of power. Redemption … Read more
Scripture The LORD tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence. — Psalm 11:5 (ESV) Devotional All events are under the control of Providence; consequently all the trials of our outward life are traceable at once to the great First Cause. Out of the golden gate of God’s … Read more
Scripture Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions? — Song of Solomon 1:7 (ESV) Devotional It is well to be able, without any “if” or “but,” … Read more
