In the beginning there was nothing in the earth that had life or any disposition towards it. The Holy Spirit moved upon the prepared matter and communicated unto it the principle of life. Since Adam ...  Read More

We need to stand in the way God has directed us to walk. We are so prone to desire another's work than our own. That which is the Commander's business is not the Private's. The service you do out of ...  Read More

While man was a lovely and happy creature, by sin he cast himself into a sinful and miserable state. Every imagination of his heart was evil continually. His mind and will were defiled. There was not...  Read More

As we consider man in the state of innocence, we can lament the greatness of Adam's fall. Here is a stately building lying in ashes. Could we avoid weeping if we saw our house on fire and our propert...  Read More

Adam had perfect tranquillity and calm in his own breast in paradise. His conscience had nothing to do, and the happy pair lived in perfect unity. They were liable to no disease or pain, and had a li...  Read More

God created man in the state of innocence, agreeable to his nature, without any imperfection, corruption, or any principle of corruption in his body or soul. When God breathed into him a living soul,...  Read More

When any soul is converted, there is the concurrence of all three persons in the Trinity. This is a subject of great moment. At the drawing of the heart to close with Christ, there is a special couns...  Read More

Satan always seeks to usurp our territory. By yielding in one temptation we let the devil into our trench and give him a fair advantage to do us more mischief. An angry man, while he is raging and ra...  Read More

We obey God's will, as the angels in heaven, when we do it willingly and without complaint. The angels love to be employed in God's service. It is their heaven to serve God. Heaven is such a happy pl...  Read More

The manner in which we do God's will is as important as the thing itself. We obey acceptably when we obey from the heart. We do God's will acceptably when we do his will as it is done in heaven, that...  Read More

The great design of God in his Word is to make us doers of his will. Doing the will of God is evidence of sincerity and our love for Christ. Failure to do God's will is foolish, because in denying Go...  Read More

This describes the Christians posture in his fight against Satan. It is a military expression, a word of command that a captain would use to his soldiers. A coward does not stand, but Christ directs ...  Read More

The providence of God often goes beyond our imagination and often crosses our desires and designs to our great advantage. He does not give what we fancy, but what his infinite wisdom judges best and ...  Read More

The ways of God's providence direct us into the calling and employment that is ordered for us in this world. To have an honest, lawful employment in which you do not dishonour God is no small mercy. ...  Read More

A remarkable performance of providence for the people of God is the ordering of the occasion, instrument, and means of their conversion. In nothing does providence shine forth more gloriously. You ar...  Read More

How many families are there, though not profane, who yet train up their children vainly and sensually, and take no care for their souls? It is no matter to them that the devil seeks their souls. If t...  Read More

The providence of God designates the family out of which we should rise. This affects both our temporal and eternal good. If your family feared God, and took care to train you up in the nurture of the...  Read More

Do not leave your Bible as some do, at church, and hear nothing of it all week long. Bring it home and let it dwell with you. Do not let the Word be as a wayfaring man that tarries with you for a nig...  Read More

The Word of God is a spring of living water, a deep mine of costly treasure, a table with all sorts of food, and a garden with a variety of pleasant fruits. It contains the church's charter with all ...  Read More

God’s children are swimming upstream and live contrary to the course of the world. They are living among men, and live as men do, but are moving in a different direction than the world, and are carri...  Read More

God's dearest children are exercised with sharp spiritual conflicts. God sometimes allows their faith to be shaken or to doubt the principles in God's Word, but it is very clear that God is working a...  Read More

When we pray, we must be wary that our misunderstanding of providence does not make us faint. God cannot answer our prayers if they cross his revealed will or secret providence. Since God makes all t...  Read More

In the things we ask for in prayer, God knows the proper time so the answers are good for us. God gives us his cheque, but he will pay at his pleasure. The time is concealed and hidden to us, though ...  Read More

This duty suggests diligence in prayer. Every Christian who seeks to be a true one in deed and not name only must be a man of prayer. Prayer is like an investment in bonds that give a future return f...  Read More