“I sleep but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh…” Song of Solomon 5:2 There is a great hymn written by Dora Greenwell, two stanzas of which are the following: “And oh, that He fulfilled may see The travail of His soul in me, And with His work contented be,…
“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. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” John 7:37,38 Things were heating up in Israel, especially…
“Neither do men put new wine into old bottles (wineskins): else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish.” Matthew 9:17 When the Lord Jesus deliberately passed through Samaria, He stopped at a well, where He rested, sitting on it. There came a woman, who identified herself to the Lord as…
“And they (the two angels) say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid Him.” John 20:13 When the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified, it was certainly the beginning of a downward descent into helplessness and hopelessness by…
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge.” Deuteronomy 31:14 It is one thing to be called by men to accomplish a certain task or mission. It is quite another to…
“Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through their word; that they all may be one; as Thou, Father art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us…” John 17:20,21 The salvation which Christ offers by the sacrifice of Himself, to…