We need to take heed therefore how we deal with young believers. Let us be careful not to pitch matters too high, making things necessary evidences of grace which do not equal the experience of many ...  Read More

On the other hand, people should not tire and wear out the patience of others; nor should the weaker so far demand moderation from others as to rely upon their indulgence and so to rest in their own ...  Read More

See the opposite dispositions in the holy nature of Christ and the impure nature of man. Man, for a little smoke will quench the light. Christ ever cherishes even the least beginnings. How he bore wi...  Read More

Christ would not have us despise little things. The glorious angels disdain not attendance on little ones. It is Christ that raises the worth of little and wretched places and persons. Bethlehem was ...  Read More

There are several ages in Christians, some babes, some young men. Faith may be as ‘a grain of mustard seed' (Matt. 17:20). Nothing so little as grace at first, and nothing more glorious afterward. Th...  Read More

The Lord knows our frame; he remembers that we are but dust (Psa. 103:14), that our strength is not the strength of steel. This is a branch of his faithfulness to us as his creatures, thus he is call...  Read More

He will not show his strength against those who prostrate themselves before him. (1) What should we learn from this, but to 'come boldly to the throne of grace' (Heb. 4:16)? Will our sins discourage ...  Read More

In pursuing his calling, Christ will not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax, in which more is meant than spoken, for he will not only not break nor quench, but he will cherish those ...  Read More

Such bruising may help weaker Christians not to be too much discouraged, when they see stronger ones shaken and bruised. Peter was bruised when he wept bitterly (Matt. 26:75). This reed, until he met...  Read More

The bruised reed is a man who for the most part is in some misery, as those were who came to Christ for help, and by misery he is brought to see sin as the cause of it. He is sensible of sin and mise...  Read More

God calls Christ here his servant. Christ was God's servant in the greatest piece of service that ever was, a choice servant who did and suffered all by commission from the Father. In this we may see...  Read More

(8) Where the Spirit is, there is often prayer, as Christ often prayed. There is also a perpetual endeavour of doing good, as his Spirit in him stirred him to go from place to place to do good. Where...  Read More

(6) Where he enters, he possesses the whole inward and outward man. He rules the eyes, the ears, the hands; he renews all, so that our delights are made clean unlike they were before. There is such a...  Read More

(5) If Christ is in us, he transforms us to his own likeness; where he rules by the Spirit, he changes his people (2 Cor. 3:18). Christ renews and changes his spouse, the church. He is such a head as...  Read More

(3) Where Christ is, he rules; for he takes the keys of the house and governs all. Where he is in the heart and affections-there he rules; and where he takes not his lodging in the affections and in ...  Read More

How can we know that Christ is in us? (1) If Christ is in us by his Spirit, he will work great matters in us and there will be tumults in the soul. For when Christ comes to us, he finds all in rebell...  Read More

Christ is in all believers, as the vine is in the branches and as the head is in the members. Here is a notable bond of union between Christians; Christ by his Spirit is in them all. Christ is one in...  Read More

As for unbelievers, we must know that God shuts out no one but those who shut themselves out, those who think the things of the gospel are too good to be true, and therefore will enjoy their pleasure...  Read More

We must help unbelievers realize that they misread the abundant common blessings of this life as a sign that God must love them. For example, some think their case is good because God has given them ...  Read More

It is clear to anybody who knows anything in religion that we ought to labour to know God's love for us. Avoid any who teach that we ought to doubt God's love for us. Are we not prone enough to distr...  Read More

We cannot be thankful to God until we know that he loves us in Christ. Who can be thankful to someone he doesn't know? It is a duty to joy in the Lord as our portion, but we must be certain of his lo...  Read More

The evils which we suffer are from the meritorious evil of sin. It is sin that makes God to bring evil upon the creature. We must know that the evil of punishment is the good of justice, because it d...  Read More

The lives of God's children do keep back judgment and evil from the place where they live, and their death is a forerunner of judgment. The reasons: (1) Because gracious men do make the times and the...  Read More

This is a comfort to us in the departure of our believing friends, to render their souls up with comfort into the hands of God. We know they are not lost but sent before us. Why should we inappropria...  Read More