Evening “Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty.” Isaiah 33:17 The more you know about Christ the less will you be satisfied with superficial views of him; and the more deeply you study his transactions in the eternal covenant, his engagements on your behalf as the eternal Surety,Read More …

Morning “The Lord is my portion, saith my soul.” Lamentations 3:24 It is not “The Lord is partly my portion,” nor “The Lord is in my portion”; but he himself makes up the sum total of my soul’s inheritance. Within the circumference of that circle lies all that we possessRead More …

Evening “Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.” Psalm 68:28 It is our wisdom, as well as our necessity, to beseech God continually to strengthen that which he has wrought in us. It is because of their neglect in this, that many Christians may blame themselves forRead More …

Morning “The Lord’s portion is his people.” Deuteronomy 32:9 How are they his? By his own sovereign choice. He chose them, and set his love upon them. This he did altogether apart from any goodness in them at the time, or any goodness which he foresaw in them. He hadRead More …

Evening “And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.” Genesis 29:26 We do not excuse Laban for his dishonesty, but we scruple not to learn from the custom which he quoted as his excuse. There are some things whichRead More …

Morning “I will cut off them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham.” Zephaniah 1:5 Such persons thought themselves safe because they were with both parties: they went with the followers of Jehovah, and bowed at the same time to Malcham. But duplicity isRead More …

Evening “Men ought always to pray.” Luke 18:1 If men ought always to pray and not to faint, much more Christian men. Jesus has sent his church into the world on the same errand upon which he himself came, and this mission includes intercession. What if I say that theRead More …

Morning “The branch cannot bear fruit of itself.” John 15:4 How did you begin to bear fruit? It was when you came to Jesus and cast yourselves on his great atonement, and rested on his finished righteousness. Ah! what fruit you had then! Do you remember those early days? ThenRead More …

Evening “And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.” Luke 6:12 If ever one of woman born might have lived without prayer, it was our spotless, perfect Lord, and yet none was everRead More …

Morning “The trial of your faith.” 1 Peter 1:7 Faith untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials. Faith never prospers so well as when all things are against her: tempestsRead More …