Posts with the category “voices-from-the-past-vol-1”

We need to guard our lives against the love of riches and worldly cares. All love for earthly goods, however, is not a sin. Their sweetness is a drop of his love and they have his goodness imprinted o...  Read More

Because of our great infirmities, and the great deception of the enemy, God has appointed this petition for his children as a remedy. It is a plea for grace to guide us, so that we are not led into te...  Read More

You are not to conquer difficulties and oppositions in your own strength, but by the Spirit of God. The power of his grace is sufficient, and his strength appears the greatest in our weakness (2 Cor. ...  Read More

Child of God, be sure there are no secret reservations in your heart for the world and the flesh. You may not divide your heart between God and the things below. The hypocrite gives God what the flesh...  Read More

Alas! It is our wisdom to be careful lest we are deceived in so great a business as our salvation. There is no harm to be careful, since presumption, carelessness, and neglect may betray us to misery ...  Read More

O the horrid wickedness Satan has drawn man into by getting him to sit and associate with vain persons! ‘Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil' (Prov. 4:14). Let ...  Read More

Satan seeks to draw the soul into sin by presenting the sufferings that daily attend those who walk in holiness. But all the afflictions that attend the people of God turn out to their profit and glor...  Read More

Satan seeks to draw you into sin by making you bold to venture near the occasion of sin; 'You may walk by the harlot's door, though you won't go in; you may sit with the drunkard, though you won't get...  Read More

One of the devices of Satan is to persuade the soul that repentance is an easy work. 'Why! Suppose you do sin', says Satan, 'it is no difficult thing to return, confess, beg pardon and cry, "Lord, hav...  Read More

What are the marks of the poor in spirit? (1.) Ihey are humble at the sight of their graces. Carnal hearts are puffed up, but a gracious heart sees enough in its graces to make it humble. (2.) The poo...  Read More

A life of faith builds upon lasting principles. The life of sense lives on fading objects. What can he lack who lives by faith in him that is all and never changes? When the mariner puts out to sea, h...  Read More

Believers have comfort to live upon that the world knows nothing about. We have the comfort of God’s promises. And what do you think is best, to live upon earthly pleasures, or upon the promises of Go...  Read More

The grace of God makes the soul like a weaned child to all worldly things. This does not mean we are without earthly comforts and contentments. You may have much of the world, and yet still be weaned ...  Read More

Faith enters within the veil and moves the soul out of the valleys of sense to the glories of heaven. The treasures of most men are perishing, earthly, cankered and moth-eaten treasures. Where is your...  Read More

The poor in spirit view themselves as destitute of all true spiritual good whatsoever; ‘I am deprived of your image, and have no spiritual life that in any way will work for me to eternal life.’ The p...  Read More

What does it mean to be poor in spirit? If a man is willing in heart to take a low condition if God shall so please, or if he has many worldly goods yet he is willing to give them up when God calls fo...  Read More

Love is the most comfortable attribute in God, and the best name by which we know him (1 John 4:16). Love acts with a priority to all other attributes. Wisdom plans the happiness for man, and power an...  Read More

Our present enjoyments should be a window for the soul to see the goodness of God. Faith can see divine goodness and bounty beaming through every mercy, but to rest in present mercies is to make them ...  Read More

Our Lord called his disciples away from rejoicing in that which was lawful, to fix their joy upon an infinitely better object, their names written in heaven. The victory over the powers of hell was su...  Read More

Private prayer is the gate of heaven. O the great things that private prayer has done with God! O the great mercies that have been obtained! O the great threats that have been diverted! Private prayer...  Read More

The glass is first emptied before you pour in wine. God first empties man of himself, before he pours in the precious wine of his grace. Until we see our own poverty, we will never see Christ's value....  Read More

Let us be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord, for faith never yet has had cause for wet cheeks and hanging down brows. What can ail faith, seeing Christ allows himself (with reverence to hi...  Read More

The great Master Gardener in his wonderful providence has planted me in this part of his vineyard by his grace, and here I grow and abide till the great Master of the vineyard thinks it fit to transpl...  Read More

What a comfort it is to have God as your portion! This portion is not in toys and trifles, but in the blessed, and boundless God. It is a portion so precious that none of the greatest mathematicians e...  Read More

O friend, the portions in the world are like candles that are consumed by use, and then go out in a stink, compared to God your eternal portion! God is yours forever and ever. O sweet word, ‘forever'!...  Read More

As a merchant in London may import horses from Barbary, spices of Egypt, wares of Alexandria, silks of Persia, and embroideries of Turkey, so may you, if God is your portion, import the finest bread t...  Read More

Earthly portions are limited in their nature and the comfort they yield. Health is better than sickness, but does not help poverty. Honour is better than disgrace, but does not help against pain. Mone...  Read More

God is a sanctifying and enabling portion. The things of the world cannot advance the soul in the least. Like shadows that are ever so long, the body is not taller. Men in high places are the same men...  Read More

The nature of divine holiness is freedom from all evil. God is separate from every shade of evil. He acts according to the likeness of his own excellence and abhors everything contrary to it. There is...  Read More

This verse is one of the loftiest descriptions of the majesty of God in the whole of Scripture. The holiness of God is his glory and crown. It is the blessedness of his nature. It renders him glorious...  Read More

There is much in our Lord's pantry that will satisfy his children, and much wine in his cellar that will quench all their thirst. Hunger for him until he fills you. He is pleased with the importunity ...  Read More

You may not know what the Lord is doing in a particular circumstance, but you will know hereafter. Let Christ know of your heavy cares. Let him bear all. Dear brother, do not become weary of your Mast...  Read More

We must learn to spin out comfort, peace, joy, and communion with Christ in our troubles. Grace grows best in winter. Crosses are a part of our communion with Christ. There is no sweeter fellowship th...  Read More

If your Lord calls you to suffering, do not be dismayed, for he will provide a deeper portion of Christ in your suffering. The softest pillow will be placed under your head though you must set your ba...  Read More

The wicked may have many comforts and sill he is cursed. The godly may have many crosses, yet still he is blessed. If the wicked has success and his path is smooth, yet there is still a curse upon him...  Read More

God is a satisfying portion. This world may fill a man, but can never satisfy him. Most have too much, but no one has enough. They are like ships that carry a burden heavy enough to sink it, but with ...  Read More

If you can see God in creation, the plants, birds, minerals, and beasts, what thoughts might you have, if God were your portion. Look at the ocean, the storms and tempests, the innumerable fish, both ...  Read More

Why would men choose the world for their portion instead of God? Because of their ignorance of the great worth of this object. The devil courts man for his soul with the brutish pleasures of sin. The ...  Read More

A Christian in his saddest condition can enjoy God as his portion. You, who have chosen the world for your portion, have you not read what a perishing portion it is? I offer you today a portion worthy...  Read More

The godly are blessed not only in heaven but as they travel to glory. This is a paradox to flesh and blood; blessed while being reproached and maligned? No matter how sense and reason cast their vote,...  Read More