Dear Ones: Francis Ridley Havergal wrote in the sixth stanza of the hymn “Jesus, Thy Life is Mine“: “Jesus, my life is Thine, And evermore shalt be, Hidden in Thee, For nothing can untwine, Thy life from mine.” Let us today, by faith, lay hold of the wonderful truth of our inseparable union with Christ.…
(Read Part I) Dear Ones: I will try and give a definition of the sovereignty of God. God, The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, existing before all of creation or the beginning of time, is all powerful, all knowing, always purposeful, and always working all things towards His designed objective: the revelation of His glory,…
Dear Ones: How shall the goodness of God be revealed in us? Whether in great works or in the common, ordinary acts of everyday life there is only one way and it is by faith. In Robert M. M’Cheyne‘s great hymn, “When This Passing World Is Done”, he writes:
Dear Ones: “And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; ‘for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; “and he will answer from within and…
Dear Ones: This morning as I reflected on my early Christian life two thoughts came to mind. Firstly, “Life reduced to fellowship with Christ makes the complicated simple.” This truth was drilled into me at bible school. Secondly, I remember a conference I attended. The speaker was Dr. Robert Smith. He was a brilliant man…
Dear Ones: The Gulf Stream is a strong ocean current off the east coast of the United States. It is powerful. Such is the force of its current that is it literally a path in the sea. The 23rd Psalm is one of the most loved. There is within it a powerful current that draws…
In Malachi 3:10, the Lord confronts us with a challenge. He puts it like this: “…Prove me now…” When we get to the New Testament, we might wonder if the idea of a challenge from God is still valid. And then, we read passages like John 14:13, where He says, “And whatsoever ye shall ask…
Our concepts of good and bad, and thus, of the nature of God and the nature of man, are very limited, very small. If God’s thoughts and ways are as high as the heavens are above the earth, there must be a good deal that we do not know about the nature, and person of…