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January 1 - December 31, 2021
Let us banish every fearful thought and rejoice with exceeding great joy in the prospect that this year we shall begin to be “forever with the Lord.
What heavens are laid up in Jesus!
We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.
Pray that this year you may be holy, humble, zealous, and patient; have closer communion with Christ, and enter more often into the banqueting-house of His love. Pray that you may be an example and a blessing to others, and that you may live more to the glory of your Master. The motto for this year must be, “Continue . . . in prayer.
What poor starving souls they are who live without the diligent use of the Word of God and secret prayer!
That power is yours to support and strengthen you, to overcome your enemies, and to preserve you even to the end.
there is not a drop of love in His heart that is not yours; you may dive into the immense ocean of His love, and you may say of it all, “It is mine.
Proud creature-sufficiency, and boastful self-righteousness, must be leveled, to make a highway for the King of kings.
Believe the promises more firmly than you have done. Let faith increase in fullness, constancy, simplicity.
Ask that your love may become extended, more intense, more practical, influencing every thought, word, and deed.
If you do not desire to know Him better, then you love Him not, for love always cries, “Nearer, nearer.
Absence from Christ is hell; but the presence of Jesus is heaven.
Before we had a being in the world we had a being in His heart. When we were enemies to Him, He knew us, our misery, our madness, and our wickedness. When we wept bitterly in despairing repentance, and viewed Him only as a judge and a ruler, He viewed us as His brethren well beloved, and His heart yearned toward us.
Heaven came down to earth, and earth perceived it not.
When the Holy Spirit gives us spiritual light and opens our eyes to behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, we behold sin in its true colors, and ourselves in our real position; we see the Most Holy God as He reveals Himself, the plan of mercy as He propounds it, and the world to come as the Word describes it.
Our churches should by discipline divide the light from the darkness, and we should by our distinct separation from the world do the same. In judgment, in action, in hearing, in teaching, in association, we must discern between the precious and the vile, and maintain the great distinction that the Lord made upon the world’s first day.
Christian, do not dishonor religion by always wearing a brow of care; come, cast your burden upon your Lord.
Do not sit in despair; hope on, hope ever. Take up the arms of faith against a sea of trouble, and your opposition shall yet end your distresses.
Do not doubt His grace because of your tribulation, but believe that He loves you as much in seasons of trouble as in times of happiness.
Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it.
The angels of God serve Him with songs, not with groans; a murmur or a sigh would be a mutiny in their ranks.
Cheerfulness is the support of our strength; in the joy of the Lord are we strong. It acts as the remover of difficulties. It is to our service what oil is to the wheels of a railway carriage.
If you believe in the Lord Jesus, if you have repented of sin, if you have been renewed in heart, you are one of the Lord’s people, there is a place reserved for you, a crown laid up for you, a harp specially provided for you. No one else shall have your portion; it is reserved in heaven for you, and you shall have it before long, for there shall be no vacant thrones in glory when all the chosen are gathered in.
O Jesus, what a comfort it is that You have pleaded our cause against our unseen enemies; You have unmasked their ambushes. Here is a matter for joy, gratitude, hope, and confidence.
Be ever one of those whose manners are Christian, whose speech is like Jesus, whose conduct and conversation are so reminiscent of heaven that all who see you may know that you are the Savior
let us not envy the more successful, nor murmur at our losses as though we were singularly and specially tried. Like Jehoshaphat, we may be precious in the Lord’s sight, although our schemes end in disappointment.
The God of the prophets lives, and lives to help His saints. He will not suffer you to lack any good thing.
It is His delight to bestow favors. He is more ready to hear than you are to ask.
Prayer must not be our intermittent work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.
Unless we follow Christ and make our God the great object of life, we only differ in appearance from the most frivolous.
The road of sorrow is the road to heaven, but there are wells of refreshing water all along the route.
The more you have, the more you are in debt to God; and you should not be proud of that which renders you a debtor.
Do not your thousand wanderings stand before you and tell you that you are unworthy to be called His son?
The promise of the old covenant was prosperity, but the promise of the new covenant is adversity.
However difficult and painful your road, it is marked by the footsteps of your Savior; and even when you reach the dark valley of the shadow of death and the deep waters of the swelling Jordan, you will find His footprints there. Wherever we go, in every place, He has been our forerunner; each burden we have to carry has once been laid on the shoulders of Immanuel.
We track You from the cradle to the grave—for Your every word and deed was love—and we rejoice in Your love, which death did not exhaust—Your love that shone resplendent in Your resurrection.
Trouble is often the means God uses to deliver us.
We say, “Lord, why is this?” not knowing that our trouble has been the means of delivering us from far greater evil.
She allowed service to override communion, and so presented one duty stained with the blood of another.
The more spiritual the exercise, the sooner we tire in it. The choicest fruits are the hardest to rear; the most heavenly graces are the most difficult to cultivate.
The first thing for our soul’s health, the first thing for His glory, and the first thing for our own usefulness is to keep ourselves in perpetual communion with the Lord Jesus and to see that the vital spirituality of our faith is maintained over and above everything else in the world.
Forget not what your God has done for you; turn over the book of your remembrance, and consider the days of old.
Go back, then, a little way to the choice mercies of yesterday, and though all may be dark now, light up the lamps of the past—they shall glitter through the darkness, and you shall trust in the Lord till the day break and the shadows flee away.
Then not because the law commands, but because your Savior enjoins, you will labor to be perfect in holiness.
Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.
The obedience that God’s children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster’s toil, but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father’s way. Yield your bodies as instruments of righteousness, because righteousness is your Father’s will, and His will should be the will of His child.
If an earthly father watches over his children with unceasing love and care, how much more does our heavenly Father?
If your understanding cannot comprehend, let your affections apprehend; and if your spirit cannot compass the Lord Jesus in the grasp of understanding, let it embrace Him in the arms of affection.
Every tear that trickles from your eye weeps “imperfection”; every harsh word that proceeds from your lip mutters “imperfection.” You have too frequently had a view of your own heart to dream for a moment of any perfection in yourself. But amidst this sad consciousness of imperfection, here is comfort for you—you are perfect or “mature in Christ.” In God’s sight you are complete in Him; even now you are “blessed in the Beloved.
Christ takes a dirty and deformed thing and makes it clean and matchless in His glory, peerless in His beauty, and fit to be the companion of seraphs. O my soul, stand and admire this blessed truth of maturity in Christ.
