Have you taken God for your happiness? Where does the desire of your heart lie? What is the source of your greatest satisfaction? Come then, and with Abraham lift up your eyes eastward, and westward,...  Read More

The new man takes a new course. His conversation is in heaven. No sooner does Christ call one by effectual grace, but he immediately becomes a follower of Christ. When God has given him a new heart, ...  Read More

This life is not to be valued but as it yields opportunities to glorify God. We were not sent into the world to live for ourselves, but for God. If we could make ourselves, then we could live for our...  Read More

Holiness is required, that we may not be a disgrace to God and a dishonour to him. The sin of God's people stains his honour and profanes his name. When men profess to be a people near God, and live ...  Read More

There is in each of us an envy; O how hard a matter it is to rejoice in the gifts, graces, and labours of others, and be content in circumstances, when God casts us by as unworthy, and uses others to...  Read More

As you seek the prosperity of this society, it is of vast importance that you should avoid contention. A contentious people will be a miserable people. The contentions that have been among you, since...  Read More

Jesus appears before God for us—representing us continually before his Father—and mark: not only has Jesus this liberty to enter into heaven, but all the saints, and that not only at death but in the...  Read More

Consider the excellencies of the knowledge of Christ. The comforts of believers are streams from this fountain. Jesus Christ is the object of a believer's joy. Take away the knowledge of Christ, and ...  Read More

Until we get our hearts out of the world, how easily our hearts are carried away with the thoughts of earthly concerns. Until we can separate and purge our spirits, how we mingle our prayers with man...  Read More

The believer is to persevere in his Christian course to the end of his life. We have known many who have gone into the field, and liked the work of a soldier for a battle or two, but soon have had en...  Read More

The closet and solitary prayer is a necessary duty, and a profitable one. It does much for the enlargement of the heart. When a man seeks to deal most earnestly with God, he should seek retirement, a...  Read More

Do not be discouraged at the difficulties and oppositions that will rise up before you when you begin resolvedly to walk with God. Discouragements turn multitudes from religion, and provide a great t...  Read More

The doctrine of the resurrection of the dead carried Paul through temptations and confusion in the tempests of life. When we rise and live we shall be changed into a far more glorious state than when...  Read More

If the providence of God reaches to the small concerns of the world, we may be sure that the greater are also controlled by his providence. Our Saviour taught that a sparrow could not fall without th...  Read More

To pray in the Spirit is to pray sincerely, sensibly, and with affection by the working of God's Spirit. No one can truly pray without his assistance. Many ask and do not have because they ask amiss....  Read More

The words of John 6:37 reveal the purpose of the Father in giving his elect to Jesus Christ. The Father's purpose was that they might come to him and be saved. This, says the Son, shall indeed be don...  Read More

The Father's love is manifest in giving us to the Son, and in giving his Son to be a ransom for us. The Father is to be adored as the one having a chief hand in our salvation. This word—Father—does m...  Read More

We have a High Priest who is so great that there is none in the world like him. He is so far beyond us, and infinitely above us, that we are but dust and ashes. Yet, he is touched with the feeling of...  Read More

Christ taught his disciples that men ought always to pray and not lose heart (Luke 18:1). The hypocrite is revealed here. He will meddle with this duty now and then, but grows weary of the work if he...  Read More

Perseverance holds out to the end—until God gives the thing prayed for, or takes away the subject of our prayer. We may continue a long time, yet at last faint when the time of answer is still protra...  Read More

To stand is opposed to sleep and sloth. Standing is a waking, watchful posture. When the Captain sees his soldiers lying secure upon the ground asleep, he bids them to 'Stand to your arms, and watch!...  Read More

The hand of providence preserves the saints from the snares and temptations of sin. That providence wards off many a dreadful stroke of temptation and puts away mortal thrusts of the enemy, is a trut...  Read More

The love of Christ and the love of the world cannot lodge together in one heart. These are two masters, ruling by contrary laws. When the love of the world entered into Judas, it is said that the dev...  Read More

Blessed Paul, now an old man, was ready to sacrifice his blood for the truth of the gospel. Here we see that hod allows his dearest children to be forsaken by those close to them. In this we are conf...  Read More