The test of self-interest
If thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. Genesis 13:9. As soon as you begin to live the life…
The delight of despair
And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. Rev. 1:17. It may be that like the apostle John you know Jesus Christ intimately, when suddenly He appears with no familiar characteristic at all, and the only…
Careful infidelity
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body what ye shall put on. Matthew 6:25. Jesus sums up commonsense carefulness in a disciple as infidelity. If we have…
Now this explains it
That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us. John 17:21. If you are going through a solitary way, read John 17, it will explain…
Divine reasonings of faith
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:33. Immediately we look at these words of Jesus, we find them the most revolutionary statement human ears ever…
The realm of the real
In your patience possess ye your souls. Luke 21:19. When a man is born again, there is not the same robustness in his thinking or reasoning for a time as formerly. We have to make an expression of the new…
“Out of the wreck I rise”
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Romans 8:35. God does not keep a man immune from trouble; He says—“I will be with him in trouble.” It does not matter what actual troubles in the most extreme form…
Careful unreasonableness
Behold the fowls of the air . . . . consider the lilies of the field. Matthew 6:26, 28. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, they simply are! Think of the sea, the air, the sun, the…
His ascension and our union
And it came to pass, while He blessed them, He was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. Luke 24:51. We have no corresponding experience to the events in Our Lord’s life after the Transfiguration. From then onwards Our…
The habit of wealth
Partakers of the divine nature. 2 Peter 1:4. We are made partakers of the Divine nature through the promises; then we have to ‘manipulate’ the Divine nature in our human nature by habits, and the first habit to form is…