Jeremiah’s Declaration of Thanksgiving
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22, 23. The faithful prophet was daily strengthened to endure. “The Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one,” he declared in faith; “therefore my persecutors shall stumble, […]
Paul’s Shout of Victory
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? … Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. Romans 8:35-37. Paul suffered for the truth’s sake, and yet we hear no complaints from his […]
Christians in All Ages Have Overcome
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 1 John 5:4. The apostles built upon a sure foundation, even the Rock of Ages. To this foundation they brought the stones that they quarried from the world. Not without hindrance did the builders […]
Christ Overcame the World
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33. When the last steps of Christ’s humiliation were to be taken, when the deepest sorrow was closing about His soul, He said […]
Christ’s Victory as Complete as Adam’s Failure
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Romans 5:19. Christ is called the second Adam. In purity and holiness, connected with God and beloved by God, He began where the first Adam began. Willingly He passed over the ground where Adam […]
Hold Fast
Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Revelation 3:11. Decisions may be made in a moment that fix one’s condition forever…. But remember, it would take the work of a lifetime to recover what a moment of yielding to temptation and thoughtlessness throws away…. By a momentary act of will […]
