Evening  “Now we have received… the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.” 1 Corinthians 2:12 Dear reader, have you received the spirit which is of God, wrought by the Holy Ghost in your soul? The necessity ofRead More …

Morning “With lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” Jeremiah 31:3 The thunders of the law and the terrors of judgment are all used to bring us to Christ; but the final victory is effected by lovingkindness. The prodigal set out to his father’s house from a sense of need; but hisRead More …

Morning “In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.” John 7:37 Patience had her perfect work in the Lord Jesus, and until the last day of the feast he pleaded with theRead More …

Morning “Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.” Ecclesiastes 7:8 Look at David’s Lord and Master; see his beginning. He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Would you see the end? He sits at his Father’s right hand,Read More …

Morning “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.” 1 Samuel 7:12 The word “hitherto” seems like a hand pointing in the direction of the past. Twenty years or seventy, and yet, “hitherto the Lord hath helped!” Through poverty, through wealth, through sickness, through health, at home, abroad, on the land, onRead More …

Morning “The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God.” Galatians 2:20 When the Lord in mercy passed by and saw us in our blood, he first of all said, “Live;” and this he did first, because life is oneRead More …

Morning “Can the rush grow up without mire?” Job 8:11 The rush is spongy and hollow, and even so is a hypocrite; there is no substance or stability in him. It is shaken to and fro in every wind just as formalists yield to every influence; for this reason theRead More …

Morning “The last Adam.” 1 Corinthians 15:45 Jesus is the federal head of his elect. As in Adam, every heir of flesh and blood has a personal interest, because he is the covenant head and representative of the race as considered under the law of works; so under the lawRead More …

Morning “Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” Isaiah 7:14 Let us today go down to Bethlehem, and in company with wondering shepherds and adoring Magi, let us see him who was born King of the Jews, for we by faith canRead More …

Morning “For your sakes he became poor.” 2 Corinthians 8:9 The Lord Jesus Christ was eternally rich, glorious, and exalted; but “though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor.” As the rich saint cannot be true in his communion with his poor brethren unless of his substanceRead More …