Monday, July 30, 2018 "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." Today's Devotional Reading John 6:37 No limit is set to the duration of this promise. It does not merely say, "I will not cast out a sinner at his first coming," but, "I will in no wise cast out." The original reads, "I will not, not cast out," or "I will never, never cast out." The text means, t...
Keep ReadingSunday, July 29, 2018 "All that the Father giveth me shall come to me." Today's Devotional Reading John 6:37 This declaration involves the doctrine of election: there are some whom the Father gave to Christ. It involves the doctrine of effectual calling: these who are given must and shall come; however stoutly they may set themselves against it, yet they shall be broug...
Keep ReadingSaturday, July 28, 2018 "Who went about doing good." Today's Devotional Reading Acts 10:38 Few words, but yet an exquisite miniature of the Lord Jesus Christ. There are not many touches, but they are the strokes of a master's pencil. Of the Savior and only of the Savior is it true in the fullest, broadest, and most unqualified sense. "He went about doing good." From th...
Keep ReadingFriday, July 27, 2018 "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?" Today's Devotional Reading Romans 8:33 Most blessed challenge! How unanswerable it is! Every sin of the elect was laid upon the great Champion of our salvation, and by the atonement carried away. There is no sin in God's book against his people: he seeth no sin in Jacob, neither iniquity in Is...
Keep ReadingThursday, July 26, 2018 "That he may set him with princes." Today's Devotional Reading Psalm 113:8 Our spiritual privileges are of the highest order. "Among princes" is the place of select society. "Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ." Speak of select society, there is none like this! "We are a chosen generation, a peculiar people, a...
Keep ReadingWednesday, July 25, 2018 "In their affliction, they will seek me early." Today's Devotional Reading Hosea 5:15 Losses and adversities are frequently the means which the great Shepherd uses to fetch home his wandering sheep; like fierce dogs they worry the wanderers back to the fold. There is no making lions tame if they are too well fed; they must be brought down from ...
Keep ReadingTuesday, July 24, 2018 "His camp is very great." Today's Devotional Reading Joel 2:11 Consider, my soul, the mightiness of the Lord who is thy glory and defense. He is a man of war, Jehovah is his name. All the forces of heaven are at his beck, legions wait at his door, cherubim and seraphim;, watchers and holy ones, principalities and powers, are all attentive to his ...
Keep ReadingMonday, July 23, 2018 "The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." Today's Devotional Reading 1 John 1:7 "Cleanseth," says the text - not "shall cleanse." There are multitudes who think that as a dying hope they may look forward to pardon. Oh! how infinitely better to have cleansing now than to depend on the bare possibility of forgiveness when I come...
Keep ReadingSunday, July 22, 2018 "Behold the man!" Today's Devotional Reading John 19:5 If there be one place where our Lord Jesus most fully becomes the joy and comfort of his people, it is where he plunged deepest into the depths of woe. Come hither, gracious souls, and behold the man in the garden of Gethsemane; behold his heart so brimming with love that he cannot hold it in ...
Keep ReadingSaturday, July 21, 2018 "Why go I mourning?" Today's Devotional Reading Psalm 42:9 Canst thou answer this, believer? Canst thou find any reason why thou art so often mourning instead of rejoicing? Why yield to gloomy anticipations? Who told thee that the night would never end in day? Who told thee that the sea of circumstances would ebb out till there should be nothing...
Keep ReadingFriday, July 20, 2018 "And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor." Today's Devotional Reading Jeremiah 2:18 By sundry miracles, by divers mercies, by strange deliverances Jehovah had proved himself to be worthy of Israel's trust. Yet they broke down the hedges with which God had enclosed them as a sacred garden; they forsook their o...
Keep ReadingThursday, July 19, 2018 "A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench." Today's Devotional Reading Matthew 12:20 What is weaker than the bruised reed or the smoking flax? A reed that groweth in the fen or marsh, let but the wild duck light upon it, and it snaps; let but the foot of man brush against it, and it is bruised and broken; every wi...
Keep ReadingWednesday, July 18, 2018 "They do not jostle one another; each marches in his path." Today's Devotional Reading Joel 2:8 Locusts always keep their rank, and although their number is legion, they do not crowd upon each other, so as to throw their columns into confusion. This remarkable fact in natural history shows how thoroughly the Lord has infused the spirit of orde...
Keep ReadingTuesday, July 17, 2018 "Let not one of them escape." Today's Devotional Reading 1 Kings 18:40 When the prophet Elijah had received the answer to his prayer, and the fire from heaven had consumed the sacrifice in the presence of all the people, he called upon the assembled Israelites to take the priests of Baal, and sternly cried, "Let not one of them escape." He took ...
Keep ReadingMonday, July 16, 2018 "Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time is come. For thy servants rake pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof." Today's Devotional Reading Psalm 102:13-14 A selfish man in trouble is exceedingly hard to comfort, because the springs of his comfort lie entirely within himself, and when he...
Keep ReadingSunday, July 15, 2018 "He appeared first to Mary Magdalene." Today's Devotional Reading Mark 16:9 Jesus "appeared first to Mary Magdalene," probably not only on account of her great love and persevering seeking, but because, as the context intimates, she had been a special trophy of Christ's delivering power. Learn from this, that the greatness of our sin before conver...
Keep ReadingSaturday, July 14, 2018 "As it began to dawn, came Magdalene, to see the sepulcher." Today's Devotional Reading Matthew 28:1 Let us learn from Mary Magdalene how to obtain fellowship with the Lord Jesus. Notice how she sought. She sought the Savior very early in the morning. If thou canst wait for Christ, and be patient in the hope of having fellowship with him at some...
Keep ReadingFriday, July 13, 2018 "When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me." Today's Devotional Reading Psalm 56:9 It is impossible for any human speech to express the full meaning of this delightful phrase, "God is for me." He was "for us" before the worlds were made; he was "for us," or he would not have given his well-beloved son;...
Keep ReadingThursday, July 12, 2018 "His heavenly kingdom." Today's Devotional Reading 2 Timothy 4:18 Yonder city of the great King is a place of active service. Ransomed spirits serve him day and night in his temple. They never cease to fulfill the good pleasure of their King. They always "rest," so far as ease and freedom from care is concerned; and never "rest," in the sense of...
Keep ReadingWednesday, July 11, 2018 "Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation." Today's Devotional Reading Joel 1:3 In this simple way, by God's grace, a living testimony for truth is always to be kept alive in the land - the beloved of the Lord are to hand down their witness for the gospel, and the covenant to ...
Keep ReadingTuesday, July 10, 2018 "And the evening and the morning were the first day." Today's Devotional Reading Genesis 1:5 The evening was "darkness" and the morning was "light," and yet the two together are called by the name that is given to the light alone! This is somewhat remarkable, but it has an exact analogy in spiritual experience. In every believer there is darkness...
Keep ReadingMonday, July 9, 2018 "And God divided the light from the darkness." Today's Devotional Reading Genesis 1:4 A believer has two principles at work within him. In his natural estate he was subject to one principle only, which was darkness; now light has entered, and the two principles disagree. Mark the apostle Paul's words in the seventh chapter of Romans: "I find then a...
Keep ReadingSunday, July 8, 2018 "Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day." Today's Devotional Reading Psalm 25:5 When the believer has begun with trembling feet to walk in the way of the Lord, he asks to be still led onward like a little child upheld by its parent's helping hand, and he craves to be further instructe...
Keep ReadingSaturday, July 7, 2018 "When I passed by thee, I said unto the, Live." Today's Devotional Reading Ezekiel 16:6 Saved one, consider gratefully this mandate of mercy. Note that this fiat of God is majestic. In our text, we perceive a sinner with nothing in him but sin, expecting nothing but wrath; but the eternal Lord passes by in his glory; he looks, he pauses, and he p...
Keep ReadingFriday, July 6, 2018 "How many are mine iniquities and sins." Today's Devotional Reading Job 13:23 Have you ever really weighed and considered how great the sin of God's people is? Think how heinous is your own transgression, and you will find that not only does a sin here and there tower up like an alp, but that your iniquities are heaped upon each other, as in the ol...
Keep ReadingThursday, July 5, 2018 "Trust ye in the Lord forever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength." Today's Devotional Reading Isaiah 26:4 Seeing that we have such a God to trust to, let us rest upon him with all our weight; let us resolutely drive out all unbelief, and endeavor to get rid of doubts and fears, which so much mar our comfort; since there is no excuse...
Keep ReadingWednesday, July 4, 2018 "He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully." Today's Devotional Reading Psalm 24:4 Outward practical holiness is a very precious mark of grace. It is to be feared that many professors have perverted the doctrine of justification by faith in such a way as to treat good works wit...
Keep ReadingTuesday, July 3, 2018 "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him." Today's Devotional Reading 2 Timothy 2:12 We must not imagine that we are suffering for Christ, and with Christ, if we are not in Christ. Beloved friend, are you trusting to Jesus only? If not, whatever you may have to mourn over on earth, you are not "suffering with Christ," and have no hope of reigni...
Keep ReadingMonday, July 2, 2018 "Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit." Today's Devotional Reading Psalm 28:1 A cry is the natural expression of sorrow, and a suitable utterance when all other modes of appeal fail us; but the cry must be alone directed to the Lord, for to cry to man ...
Keep ReadingSunday, July 1, 2018 "The voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day." Today's Devotional Reading Genesis 3:8 My soul, now that the cool of the day has come, retire awhile and hearken to the voice of thy God. He is always ready to speak with thee when thou art prepared to hear. If there be any slowness to commune it is not on his part, but altog...
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