\”We make a sure covenant, and write it.\” — Neh 9:38. \”He is the Mediator of a better covenant.\” — Heb 8:6. IT IS good for a soul to make a covenant with God. On his twenty-third birthday Milton wrote these memorable words: \”Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall…
\”Many resorted unto Him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things John spake of this Man were true. And many believed on Him there.\” — Joh 10:41-42. THE PEOPLE were inclined to disparage the life of John the Baptist because he performed no miracle. But surely his whole life was a miracle; from…
\”He that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.\” — 1Pe 3:10. \”Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt.\” — Col 4:6. THE IDEAL of Christian speech is given in the Apostle\’s words to the Colossians. Our…
THE PRACTICE OF GOD\’S PRESENCE \”Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit? or whither shall I flee from Thy Presence? If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me.\” — Psa 139:7, Psa…
GOD\’S DELAYS ARE NOT DENIALS \”Therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you, and therefore will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you; for the Lord is a God of judgment; blessed are all they that wait for Him.\” — Isa 30:18. THERE ARE many illustrations of this…
