There are three things that we must know Would we be happy here below: We must our sin and misery see. And how we can delivered be; True gratitude our heart must fill, Our striving be to do God’s will. God’s Word and Spirit must impart A knowledge of our sinful heart. Our lost condition […]
About a year ago, I read an article interviewing young married couples in college in which each couple was asked how many children they planned to have and why. I will never forget the picture of one young couple, apparently much in love and jogging for exercise, who candidly admitted that they planned never to […]
Proverbs 30:25 “The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer.” The ants, we learn from vs. 24, are the first of “four things which are little upon the earth, but . . . exceeding wise.” Interesting it is that, in God’s creation, He provided us such a creature […]
“And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.” I Samuel 18:1 The birds on the Judean plain still sang. The locusts whirred their dusty serenade. The soft evening […]
“He that is perfect in knowledge is with thee. Behold, God is mighty. . . mighty in strength and wisdom” (Job 36:4, 5). In the previous article, we wrote of the knowledge of God. Now, since wisdom presupposes knowledge, it is fitting that we make a study of the attributes of God’s wisdom. As we […]
“If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.” Philippians 2:1, 2 Do you have fellowship with others? Do you know […]
The title of this article raises a question. How can we develop love, when it is a fruit of the Spirit? When love is called a fruit of the Spirit, then the implication is clear that the Holy Spirit is the Divine Agent Who works in us the blessings of salvation as merited by Christ […]
There is, as you probably remember from your Junior High science class, a law of physics which declares that water seeks its own level. And if you don’t remember learning about that “law” in school, you certainly know of it from easy and frequent observation. Think, for example, of the water in a teakettle. You […]