"The people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him." — Mar 9:15 How great the difference between...

"He hath commanded his covenant for ever." — Psa 111:9 The Lord's people delight in the covenant itself. It is an unfailing source of...

"If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest." — Act 8:37 These words may answer your scruples, devout reader, concerning the...

"His fruit was sweet to my taste." — Son 2:3 Faith, in the Scripture, is spoken of under the emblem of all the senses. It is sight: "Look...

"If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that...

"The breaker is come up before them." — Mic 2:13 Inasmuch as Jesus has gone before us, things remain not as they would have been had he...

"That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith." — Eph 3:17 Beyond measure it is desirable that we, as believers, should have the person...

"The voice of weeping shall be no more heard." — Isa 65:19 The glorified weep no more, for all outward causes of grief are gone. There...

"The unsearchable riches of Christ." — Eph 3:8 My Master has riches beyond the count of arithmetic, the measurement of reason, the dream...

"I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love." — Son 5:8 Such is the language...

"I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain." — Isa 45:19 We may gain much solace by considering what God has not said. What...

"He that watereth shall be watered also himself." — Pro 11:25 We are here taught the great lesson, that to get, we must give; that to...

"And they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall." — Neh 3:8 Cities well fortified have broad walls, and so had Jerusalem in her glory....

"The sweet psalmist of Israel." — 2Sa 23:1 Among all the saints whose lives are recorded in Holy Writ, David possesses an experience of...

"Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength." — Psa 31:4 Our spiritual foes are of the serpent's...

"He shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord." — Mic 5:4 Christ's reign in his Church is that of a shepherd-king. He has...

"And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not." — Mar 15:23 A golden truth is couched in the fact that the...

"Strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house." — Jer 51:51 In this account the faces of the Lord's people were covered...

"This sickness is not unto death." — Joh 11:4 From our Lord's words we learn that there is a limit to sickness. Here is an "unto" within...

"The mercy of God." — Psa 52:8 Meditate a little on this mercy of the Lord. It is tender mercy. With gentle, loving touch, he healeth the...