To Be Like Christ
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Colossians 3:3. Jesus wants you to be happy, but you cannot be happy in having your own way and following the impulses of your own heart…. Our notions, our peculiarities, are wholly human and must not be humored or indulged. Self is […]
Never Absent From the Mind of God
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 1 Peter 5:7. To enlarge our views of God’s goodness, Christ calls upon us to behold the works of His hands. “Behold the fowls of the air,” He says, “they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father […]
Hope for the Hopeless
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. Isaiah 55:7, 8. It […]
Light or Shadow?
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20. God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If there were no light, there would be no shade. But while the shade […]
Our Only Safety
The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. Proverbs 29:25. You are safe only as you trust in God. We have a vigilant foe to contend against…. He [Christ] saw that it was not possible for man to overcome the powerful foe in his own […]
Promises to those Who Obey
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine. Exodus 19:5. This pledge was given not only to Israel but to all who are obedient to God’s Word. Those who live amid the […]
