“Look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near!” Luke 21:28 We are entering upon a new year, we shall have new toils, new trials, new temptations, and new troubles; but whenever they come — let us “look up!” There may be national calamities — such as pestilence, famine, or war. . . There may be persecution — laborers may lose their jobs,…

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? (Gen 18:25) The why of suffering, has ever been among the most serious problems of life. Before we can do anything that is really worthwhile…

Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world. (Acts 15:18) Every trial, temptation, affliction, sorrow, are but the result of a definite plan in His eternal mind! Yet to us how often all seems confusion! This confusion is not so much in the things themselves — as in our mind. Job, when surrounded by trouble, cried out, “I am full of confusion!” Yet we can see…

“Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.” Isaiah 48:10 Trials, sufferings, afflictions, vexations, and disappointments are our appointed lot. And though grievous to the flesh, yet when they are sanctified to the soul’s good—are made to be some of our choicest blessings! Levity, carelessness, and indifference, with a general hardness and deadness…

“I will be their God — and they shall be My people!” Hebrews 8:10 So has Jehovah purposed in reference to those whom He has eternally loved and chosen. All of our present and future blessedness is wrapped up in this holy and gracious purpose. If Jehovah is your God — then all of His glorious attributes and perfections are engaged and employed for your eternal welfare! His mercy will…

“They crucified Him” (John 19:18) Men did by their wicked hands crucify Him, the Lord Jesus Christ, and they did so by God’s determinate counsel and foreknowledge (Acts 2:23). They brought guilt upon themselves in crucifying Him, but here are five things that He did in His crucifixion. (1)     In His crucifixion, He crushed the head of Satan. He was manifested…

Therefore whenever thou who believest in Jesus, dost hear the law in its thundering and lightening fits, as if it would burn up heaven and earth; then say thou, I am freed from this law, these thunderings have nothing to do with my soul; nay even this law, while it thus thunders and roareth, it doth allow and approve of my righteousness.…

I know whom I have believed. . . (2 Timothy 1:12) Many people struggle with what they believe. They spend much time trying to believe in some system or some cause. They are searching for something to fill the empty void deep inside their heart. But the truth is that peace is only found in a person. Peace will not be found…

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. (Ezekiel 18:32) The Lord in this chapter declares that all souls are his and that He will judge all men with righteous judgment. The just man shall live, but the sinner shall die. This surely leaves all men by nature…

“He opened their minds—so they could understand the Scriptures.” Luke 24:45 When God opens the eyes of our understanding, we begin to see everything around us to be just as the Scripture has described them. Then, and not until then, we perceive, that what we read in the Bible concerning the horrid evil of sin, the vileness of our fallen nature, the…