The mirror that talks

James 1.22-25 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway...

The gifts and callings of God; handle with prayer

John 3.27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. Charles a Spurgeon wrote: “The truth stated in this verse should act as an effectual cure for envy and emulation.” It should also be a warning about boasting and...

Not for Sale!

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. When the Scripture tells us that we have been bought with a price, it is important that we understand what it means to God and to us. For in understanding...

Giving Glory to God

Daniel 5.21 “but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.” We must reject the thinking that giving glory to God is “just for Christians.” How dangerous it is for any human being to think this...

The need for divine illumination

Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death. We by nature choose things that seem right, but lead to death. That is why we need divine illumination in life. Repeatedly we read in the proverbs warnings about...

Mercy in Life's Dungeons

I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast...