He Will Not Forsake
He Will Chasten in Love For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. Psalm 94:14. Let us remember that Jesus knows us individually, and is touched with the feeling of our infirmities. He knows the wants of each of His creatures, and reads the hidden, unspoken grief of every […]
He Careth for Me
He Will Chasten in Love Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 1 Peter 5:7. Let all who are afflicted or unjustly used, cry to God. Turn away from those whose hearts are as steel, and make your requests known to your Maker. Never is one repulsed who comes to Him with […]
He Rebukes
He Will Chasten in Love As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Revelation 3:19. The Master saw that you needed a fitness for His heavenly kingdom. He did not leave you in the furnace for the fire of affliction to consume. As a refiner and purifier of silver, he […]
He Will Purge Thy Dross
He Will Chasten in Love And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin. Isaiah 1:25. If received in faith, the trial that seems so bitter and hard to bear will prove a blessing. The cruel blow that blights the joys of earth will be […]
God’s Chastening a Blessing
He Will Chasten in Love Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law. Psalm 94:12. Of ourselves, we are not able to bring the purposes and desires and inclinations into harmony with the will of God; but if we are “willing to be made willing,” the Saviour will […]
He Chasteneth Whom He Loveth
He Will Chasten in Love For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Hebrews 12:6. The Lord can bring victory out of that which may seem to us discomfiture and defeat. We are in danger of forgetting God, of looking at the things which are seen, instead of beholding by […]
