“I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument.” (Isa. 41:15.) A BAR of steel worth five dollars, when wrought into horseshoes, is worth ten dollars. If made into needles, it is worth three hundred and fifty dollars; if into penknife blades, it is worth thirty-two thousand dollars; if intoRead More …

“There hath not failed one word of all his good promise.” (1 Kings 8:56.) SOME day we shall understand that God has a reason in every NO which He speaks through the slow movement of life. “Somehow God makes up to us.” How often, when His people are worrying andRead More …

“Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out ofRead More …

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” (2 Cor. 5:1.) THE owner of the tenement which I have occupied for many years has given notice that he willRead More …

“And the peace of God, which transcends all our powers of thought, will be a garrison to guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:7.) (Weymouth.) THERE is what is called the “cushion of the sea.” Down beneath the surface that is agitated by storms, and driven aboutRead More …

“The ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them.” (Num. 10:33.) GOD does give us impressions, but not that we should act on them as impressions. If the impression be from God, He will Himself give sufficient evidence to establish it beyond the possibility of a doubt. HowRead More …

“Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs;… they shall afflict them four hundred years;… and afterward they shall come out with great substance.” (Gen. 15:12-14.) AN assured part of God’s pledged blessing to us is delay and suffering. A delayRead More …

“God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.” (Gal. 6:14.) THEY were living to themselves; self with its hopes, and promises and dreams, still had hold of them; but theRead More …

“Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” (Heb. 12:1.) THERE are weights which are not sins in themselves, but which become distractions and stumbling blocks in our Christian progress.Read More …

“By reason of breakings they purify themselves.” (Job 41:25.) GOD uses most for His glory those people and things which are most perfectly broken. The sacrifices He accepts are broken and contrite hearts. It was the breaking down of Jacob’s natural strength at Peniel that got him where God couldRead More …