God the Son has a face that has been wet with human tears. Jesus wept.” More wonderful words than these are nowhere to be found in Scripture. The verb translated “wept” is unique in its employment here, not found elsewhere. Literally it is, “Jesus shed tears.” These were tears of sympathy with the bereaved—heaven’s gems […]
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. […]
“…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 […]
The sights and sounds of heaven. “I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth Thee; wherefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes” (Job 42:5-6). “They answered and said unto him: Thou wast altogether born in sin and dost thou teach us? And they cast […]
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. […]
First published in the Nov. 1992 Uplook. We understand a miracle to feed 5,000 or to raise the dead, certainly, but for a lost axe? The young man knew its importance. With the axe head gone, his means of serving the Lord and His people and being able to do the things expected of him […]
Do you like to meet a refreshing saint? Onesiphorus was declared by Scripture to be a refreshment to the great apostle Paul. What a blessed testimony! His name means “profit bringer” and he lived up to it, for he was profitable to the saints of God. Isn’t this what every Christian should be? THE QUALITY […]