“He changeth the times and seasons: He removeth kings, and setteth up kings: He giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding.” Daniel 2:21 Daniel, one of the captives brought to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, has been greatly used by God to influence history. How can this be, and what did he…
“…the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks, until the Spirit be poured out upon us from on high.” Isaiah 32:15 When Elijah asked Elisha what he wanted him to do for him before he would be taken away to heaven, Elisha apparently did…
“And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest Him of the evil.” Joel 2:3 If there is one characteristic about God that explains Him in some measure, and especially as that knowledge applies…
“…Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” 1 Corinthians 2:8 When the Lord Jesus was hanging on the cross, He uttered this prayer: “…Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:34) One wonders, as a…
“Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Matthew 20:28 The Lord Jesus is, at the same time, the Path, the Pattern, and the Power, for living. We have in Him, when He walked upon this earth, the very…
“It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” John 6:63 On a day when some of the many disciples went back from following the Lord Jesus, He asked those disciples who remained this question: “Will ye also go away?”…
“One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in His temple.” Psalm 27:4 When the Lord instructed Moses to build the tabernacle, or Tent…
“Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.” Hebrews 10:22 The issue of drawing near to God, and consequently knowing His nearness to us, is first seen in the Garden of Eden. In the book…
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as the only begotten of God, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14 One of the great truths, if not the most dominant, that arose out of the Reformation, was expressed in the phrase: “The just shall live…
“And the Lord answered me, and said, ‘Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.’” Habakkuk 2:2 It was Jeremiah who, in the midst of his lamentations for Jerusalem, wrote a beautiful declaration of hope: “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because…