Epaphroditus met with a long and dangerous sickness. This is our nature; let us not dream of any immunity. God's children are subject to sickness while they live. Daily experience proves it, for our ...  Read More

God's providence extends to the smallest things, to the sparrow and to the hairs of our heads. He governs every particular passage in our lives. This should teach us to look up to heaven for permissi...  Read More

Prayer should be constant. It is your duty to give yourself to prayer. It is like the fire on the altar—it must never go out day or night. It is like a saint's breathing. A Christian's prayer may hav...  Read More

God's will and Word must be the rule of our prayers. Our prayers are bound by divine precepts, promises, and prophecies. To wander beyond these leads to our loss. The Christian may have anything from...  Read More

Sin is an hindrance to prayer. When dust clogs the wheels of a watch, it cannot strike true. When the sin of the petitioner is before God's eyes, his petitions cannot enter his ears. Sin shouts loude...  Read More

Meditation prepares the heart for prayer. Meditate on your sins, and hunt them out of their lurking holes; this helps in our confession. Meditate on your needs, for God is fully able to supply them. ...  Read More

God is so gracious that he condescends to converse with poor, sinful, dust and ashes. Prayer is one of the most pleasant ways he has appointed for children of men to walk with him. His children whisp...  Read More

If God is once our God, he is so forever (Psa. 48:14). He is ours from everlasting in election to everlasting in glory. And so we shall ever be with the Lord. Let us improve our interest in him and c...  Read More

Our assurance of heaven is not perfect. True believers shall still be deficient in this as well as in other things. We only know in part. If we have obtained assurance in some degree, the perfection ...  Read More

Does not our fear of death make our lives a continual torment? Erasmus said, ‘The fear of death causes more sorrow than death itself.’ Our lives might be full of joy in daily contemplation of the swee...  Read More

Why are we so loath to die and depart from here to possess the everlasting rest promised to the people of God? If I may judge others by my own heart, we are exceedingly guilty at this point. We linge...  Read More

If Satan fails in his fiery darts of temptation, he will seek to dismay and discourage the Christian with the spirit of fear. Faith alone can quench these fiery darts. These darts are held in the ene...  Read More

We must engage the shield of faith for our defence against the fiery darts of Satan's temptations. There are three acts of faith which bind God (though we speak with reverence), to help us— (1.) The ...  Read More

Godliness must be our principal business or we shall lose our reward. Precious things cannot be had without the greatest difficulty. They that desire great reward must run through many dangers. Natur...  Read More

Godliness is a work of the greatest moment, and calls for our utmost effort. The greatest folly of man is seen when he is busy about nothing. He is like the empty fellow that showed himself to Alexan...  Read More

Godliness should be every man's main business. This is God's chief end in sending him into the world. Liberty is the freedom to act at one's own pleasure, but a slave is a living instrument to serve ...  Read More

O the sweet enjoyment of love and joy in heaven! What a high favour that God allows us to love him and embrace him with arms that have embraced lust and sin before him! But this is not all—he returns...  Read More

To stand in heaven and look back on earth, and weigh them together in the balance, must transport the soul and make it cry out, ‘Is this the place that cost so dear as the blood of God? No wonder, O ...  Read More

Discipline is a metaphor from wrestlers contending for a prize. It is a resolution to put forth full strength and power. Paul challenged Timothy to godliness at all cost. We must follow our heavenly ...  Read More

Let this encourage you, O Christian, in your conflict with Satan—the skirmish may be sharp, but it cannot be long. Let him tempt you, and his wicked instruments trounce you, but in a little while you...  Read More

Satan’s empire is bounded by this little spot of time. This mock king acts the part of a prince, but when Christ comes at the end of the world, Satan shall be degraded, his crown taken off, his sword...  Read More

In the battle against the flesh we must consider that the appetite itself might innocently desire a forbidden object. It was not the appetite itself that was forbidden, but the sinful expression of i...  Read More

CONSIDER what a great deal of sin there is in the thoughts of man, and how dangerous it is to your soul. O the vile sins that are committed in men's thoughts! Victory begins by avoiding the object fr...  Read More

Time is man's opportunity to accomplish the work for which he is living. He who makes best use of the time considers what he parts with of lesser value than what is gained. It is God that calls you t...  Read More