"The Lord shut him in." — Gen 7:16 Noah was shut in away from all the world by the hand of divine love. The door of electing purpose...

"Received up into glory." — 1Ti 3:16 We have seen our well-beloved Lord in the days of his flesh, humiliated and sore vexed; for he was...

"The kindness and love of God our Saviour." — Tit 3:4 How sweet it is to behold the Saviour communing with his own beloved people! There...

"He humbled himself." — Php 2:8 Jesus is the great teacher of lowliness of heart. We need daily to learn of him. See the Master taking a...

"These were potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work." — 1Ch 4:23 Potters were...

"Good Master." — Mat 19:16 If the young man in the gospel used this title in speaking to our Lord, how much more fitly may I thus address...

"For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh." — Gal 5:17 In every believer's heart there is a constant...

"He will make her wilderness like Eden." — Isa 51:3 Methinks, I see in vision a howling wilderness, a great and terrible desert, like to...

"The evening and the morning were the first day." — Gen 1:5 Was it so even in the beginning? Did light and darkness divide the realm of...

"Who healeth all thy diseases." — Psa 103:3 Humbling as is the statement, yet the fact is certain, that we are all more or less suffering...

"The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron." — 2Sa 15:23 David passed that gloomy brook when flying with his mourning company...

"That henceforth we should not serve sin." — Rom 6:6 Christian, what hast thou to do with sin? Hath it not cost thee enough already?...

"Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines." — Son 2:15 A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide...

"Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho." — Jos 6:26 Since he was cursed who rebuilt Jericho,...

"Thou hatest wickedness." — Psa 45:7 "Be ye angry, and sin not." There can hardly be goodness in a man if he be not angry at sin; he who...

"This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope." — Lam 3:21 Memory is frequently the bond slave of despondency. Dispairing minds call...

"Whom he justified, them he also glorified." — Rom 8:30 Here is a precious truth for thee, believer. Thou mayest be poor, or in...

"What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?" — 2Sa 9:8 If Mephibosheth was thus humbled by David's...

"So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king's table; and was lame on both his feet." — 2Sa 9:13...

"Continue in the faith." — Act 14:22 Perseverance is the badge of true saints. The Christian life is not a beginning only in the ways of...