You want rain? Elijah-like, talk to the God who made the clouds, because the clouds aren’t listening. The Lord makes two final appeals concerning Job’s interaction with the inanimate world. He asks, “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that an abundance of water may cover you? Can you send out lightnings, that they […]
CHRIST our BRIDEGROOM: “Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!” (Mt 25:6). You remember when the unnamed servant came to woo a bride for Abraham’s “only beloved son”? He showed Rebecca a sampling of Isaac’s wealth since, as he said, “to him he has given all that he has” (Gen 24:36). Would […]
“I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed” (Jonah 2:9). We are glad God always keeps His promises. Is it any surprise that He wants us to do the same? Jonah, although a bit banged up in the process, finally followed through. God’s insistence on being […]
On a trip to the Pacific coast, D.L. Moody heard of a stagecoach driver who was on his deathbed. He “kept moving one of his feet up and down, saying, ‘I am on the downgrade, and I cannot reach the brake.’” Moody continued, “As they told me of it, I thought how many were on […]
“God’s promises are like the stars: the darker the night, the brighter they shine.” —D. Nicholas How many stars are in the observable universe? Astronomers guess about 200 billion trillion. Actually, “the host of heaven cannot be numbered” by us (Jer 33:22), though God has named them all! Yet at their creation, we read just five words: “He made the […]
CHRIST the DIVIDING LINE: “Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity” (Eph 6:24). “If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed” (1 Cor 16:22). Alexander Maclaren tells “about a minister who preached a very elaborate course of lectures in refutation of some form of […]
“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” (Rom 15:13). Do you recognize the household name who wrote this? “I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. […]
Just twenty years after the Cross had been lifted up, the messengers of the gospel were spoken of as those who had “turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6), and the faith of the Thessalonian church “sounded out” as with a trumpet blast “in every place” (1 Thess 1:8). Soon after, we read that the […]
“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting system through which God speaks to us.” —Goethe Notice carefully the following words: “From whose womb comes the ice? And the frost of heaven, who gives it birth? The waters harden like stone, and the surface of the deep is frozen” (Job 28:29-30). There are thousands of […]