“For to you is the promise, and to your children.” Acts "2":39 The biblical view of children is always that they are God’s gift to us. They are ours on trust from Him. You cannot say, “This child is mine,” as if he were exclusively yours, giving you unlimited rights over him until he becomes […]
“And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah.” Genesis "5":22 We do not know anything about Enoch before he was sixty-five years old, but after he begat Methuselah, we discover something "special": we learn that he walked with God for 300 years before he was taken up. This is very significant. When the burden
“But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.” John "4":14 The Lord Jesus gives people permanent satisfaction. Why then are we so often unsatisfied? Why is there yet a craving within us for something else? We are attentive enough to the promise of this verse, but have we overlooked
“Let all bitterness and wrath and anger … be put away from you.” Ephesians "4":31 I am a Christian, and I feel an outburst of temper rising within me. I cannot repress it by merely repeating such Scriptures as “My old man was crucified with Christ” “I have died to sin,” for afterwards I have
“Surely the justice due to me is with Jehovah, and my recompense with my God.” Isaiah "49":4 Our Lord Jesus is never discouraged. He was sent here to bring Jacob again to God, to gather Israel to Him; but with what result? He did not appear to have been successful. Indeed by man’s estimate, He
“They washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” Revelation "7":14 We can only be made righteous by being cleansed through the blood. God offers us this way and no other. Not only our sins but our behavior also must be cleansed. Not a single deed of any Christian is
“And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go … and Jehovah will be my God …” Genesis "28":20-21 Now, is it not true that you vowed a vow when you were first saved? Although you may have bargained with God while
“Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” 2 Corinthians "12":9 In this experience, the discipline of the Holy Spirit leads Paul to a new discovery. He has gone through a lot already, and he is not one to fear danger or sickness; yet
“For where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.” Matthew "6":21 A brother once said to me, “My treasure is on earth, but my heart is in heaven.” Such a brother should be exhibited in a Christian museum as a rarity! This is greater than a miracle, for it is something which the
“Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee.” Psalm "141":2 True prayer comes from the desire of the heart, not from the imagination of the mind. It arises from a deep inner longing for the will of God. For this reason, the psalmist asked that his prayer might be offered to God as
