“My God, My God, why have Your forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, and from the words of My groaning?” Psalm 22:1 It was S. Crossman who wrote a beautiful, moving hymn entitled “My Song Is Love Unknown.” In that hymn he takes the reader along a path that illustrates what…
“And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, ‘For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.’” Genesis 32:30 How does God work in the soul of an individual to bring him to a saving knowledge of Himself? It begins always with the initiative of God who reveals Himself to…
“And Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old, when he departed from Haran.” Genesis 12:4 The story of Abraham, and how God made a man of faith out of him, is a wonderful picture of how God deals with men today. Though…
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.” Malachi 3:5,6 In the…
“…For I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm.” Jonah 4:2 Even from the depths of the ocean when Jonah was in the belly of a fish, there remained an overwhelming reality concerning God that Jonah would again confess. It…
“Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.” 1 Timothy1:17 In the eyes of the Israelite people, there has perhaps never been a greater king than David. We catch a glimpse of this when by the desperate cry of blind Bartimaeus, a…
“Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out freely the feet of the ox and the donkey.” Isaiah 32:20 It was after Jesus’ speaking to the woman of Samaria concerning living water, that His disciples returned from the city with food for Him to eat. It was at this moment that Jesus…
“The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy. Therefore, go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.” Matthew 22:8,9 In one of Jesus’ parables concerning the kingdom of heaven, He uses the illustration of a father, who was a king, who prepared a wedding feast…
“For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself…” Galatians 6:3 In the Old Testament, there came a day and a time when God instructed Zerubbabel, Joshua the Priest, and the remnant of the people who had returned from the deportation to again live in Jerusalem, to “Go up…
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor, He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives…” Isaiah 61:1 One of the most clear and concise verses in Scripture which reveals to us the eternal nature…