A New Beginning?
“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...
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Christ the Wisdom of God
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,...
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No Plan Like His Plan
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...
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Thinking About Christ
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...
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The Fellowship of Tears
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...
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Simply Wonderful
“…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...
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Is He a Wilderness to You?
Searching words from the weeping prophet. In the first of Jehovah’s messages through Jeremiah, the tender-hearted prophet, and recorded in Jeremiah 2, there are a number of touching questions: “What is wrong in Me?” (v. 5); “Why not inquire of Me?”...
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Hearing and Seeing the Lord
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...
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