Morning and Evening

Scripture is a never-failing treasury filled with boundless stores of grace. It is the bank of heaven; you may draw from it as much as you please, without let or hindrance.

A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God's work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness.

One word of God is like a piece of gold, and the Christian is the gold beater, and can hammer that promise out for whole weeks.

A Christian should be a striking likeness of Jesus Christ.

Service coupled with cheerfulness is heart-service, and therefore true.

We would rather have one mouthful of Christ’s love, and a sip of his fellowship, than a whole world full of carnal delights.

Sinking times are praying times with the Lord's servants.

A prayerless soul is a Christless soul.

The nearest place to the gate of heaven is the throne of the heavenly grace. Much alone, and you will have much assurance; little alone with Jesus, your religion will be shallow, polluted with many doubts and fears, and…

Keep the altar of private prayer burning. This is the very life of all piety. The sanctuary and family altars borrow their fires here, therefore let this burn well. Secret devotion is the very essence, evidence, and baro…

Faith is the telegraphic wire which links earth and heaven—on which God's messages of love fly so fast, that before we call he answers, and while we are yet speaking he hears us. But if that telegraphic wire of faith be…

Faith is the foot of the soul by which it can march along the road of the commandments.

Little faith will save a man, but little faith cannot do great things for God.

A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.

The practice of truth is the most profitable reading of it.

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

February 13 MORNING ' Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of G…

The delight which the mariner feels, when, after having been tossed about for many a day, he steps again upon the solid shore, is the satisfaction of a Christian when amidst all the changes of this troublous life, he res…

We should not have full fellowship with Christ if we did not for awhile sojourn below, for he was baptized with a baptism of suffering among men, and we must be baptized with the same if we would share his kingdom.

February 20 MORNING ' God, that comforteth those that are cast down.' ' 2 Corinthians 7:6 AND who comforteth like Him? Go to some poor, melancholy, distressed child of God; tell him sweet promises, and whisper in his ear…

March 10 MORNING ' In my prosperity I said I shall never be moved.' ' Psalm 30:6 ' MOAB is settled on his lees, he hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel.' Give a man wealth; let his ships bring home continually ric…

If we remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we will not be so ready to build our nests in them.

April 1 MORNING ' Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth.' ' Song of Solomon 1:2 FOR several days we have been dwelling upon the Saviour's passion, and for some little time to come we shall linger there. In beginni…

April 26 MORNING ' This do in remembrance of Me.' ' 1 Corinthians 11:24 IT seems then, that Christians may forget Christ! There could be no need for this loving exhortation, if there were not a fearful supposition that o…

April 29 MORNING ' Thou art my hope in the day of evil.' ' Jeremiah 17:17 THE path of the Christian is not always bright with sunshine; he has his seasons of darkness and of storm. True, it is written in God's Word, ' He…

May 15 MORNING ' All that believe are justified.' ' Acts 13:39 THE believer in Christ receives a present justification. Faith does not produce this fruit by-and-by, but now. So far as justification is the result of faith…

Say not my soul, ' From whence can God relieve my care?' Remember that Omnipotence has servants everywhere. His method is sublime, His heart profoundly kind, God never is before His time, and never is behind.

February 12 MORNING ' For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.' ' 2 Corinthians 1:5 HERE is a blessed proportion. The Ruler of Providence bears a pair of scales 'in this…

Consider this, believer. You have no right to heaven in yourself: your right lies in Christ. If you are pardoned, it is through his blood; if you are justified, it is through his righteousness; if you are sanctified, it…

May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!

Try this receipt, O believer, whenever thou art sad of heart and in heaviness of spirit: forget thyself and thy little concerns, and seek the welfare and prosperity of Zion. When thou bendest thy knee in prayer to God, l…

April 25 MORNING ' Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.' ' Song of Solomon 2:10 LO, I hear the voice of my Beloved! He speaks to me! Fair weather is smiling upon the face of the earth, and He would not have me sp…

When thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet 'underneath' thee 'are everlasting arms'. Sin may drag thee ever so low, but Christ's great atonement is still under all.

O, the breadth of the love of Christ! Shall such a love as this have half our hearts? Shall it have a cold love in return? Shall Jesus — marvellous lovingkindness and tender care meet with but faint response and tardy ac…

It may be all dark now, but it will soon be light; it may be all trial now, but it will soon be all happiness. What matters it though 'weeping may endure for a night,'when 'joy cometh in the morning?

Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don't know where we are going, we know with whom we go.