The life of a true child of God should be a continuous exercise of daily learning from the Lord. The moment we receive salvation we are enrolled in the school of Christ. To grow in grace and in the knowledge of Him who loved us and gave Himself for us should always be our ambition. […]
“This month shall be unto you the beginning of months…” (Ex. 12:2). It wasn’t, of course. The beginning of months, I mean. The nation of Israel would have a calendar year quite unlike ours. Our New Year follows the pagan celebration of the rebirth of the sun. Instead, the Jews to this day have a […]
The thing that strikes this author is the seeming audacity of Christ’s plan. If it were any merely human plan, we should call it audacity. This audacity is observable, first of all, in the fact that the plan is originally proposed to the world with what might appear to us to be such hazardous completeness. […]
“…and His name shall be called Wonderful….” (Isa. 9:6) No mind can fathom, no heart can grasp, no pen describe, how wonderful the Saviour is. He is wonderful if we think of Him as the Only Begotten of the Father. He is the image of the invisible God, the brightness of His glory and the […]
“…Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death” (Phil. 1:20). The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years…” (Ps. 90:10, NKJV). A hymn says, “Life at best is very brief.” Compared to eternity, our life is just a little blip […]
A devotional look at Proverbs 8 and 1 Corinthians 1:30 The Lord Jesus on several occasions told both His disciples and His enemies that He was the primary subject matter of the Old Testament scriptures (see Jn. 5:39, 46; Lk. 24:27, 44). As we approach the Old Testament, we need therefore to be looking for […]
We ought to think of Christ because of the office He fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son of God, through whom alone the Father can be known, approached, and served. He is the Mediator between God and man, through whom alone we can be reconciled to God, pardoned, justified, and saved. […]