Waiting For The Living One
Waiting For the Living One The Lord upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down.(Psalm 145:14) It is specially at the time of prayer that we ought to set ourselves to cultivate a spirit of quiet waiting. Before you pray, bow quietly before God, just to remember and realize who He is, how near He is, how certainly He can and will help. Just be still…
Stripping Down To Essentials
Stripping Down to Essentials For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. (Psalm 62:5) Every age has its own characteristics. Right now we are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity that is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities that occupy time and…
The Lord Will Provide
The Lord Will Provide Abraham called the name of that place, Jehovah Jireh, (the Lord will provide) as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord, it shall be provided.”(Genesis 22:14) Genesis 22 tells us that God put Abraham’s faith and obedience to the test by asking him to sacrifice his only son Isaac. The command seemingly contradicts everything we know about…
Waiting for Supplies
Waiting for Supplies The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season.(Psalm 145:15) Psalm 145 is a Psalm of the Kingdom, and “The eyes of all wait upon thee” appears specially to point to the needs of God’s saints, of all that fall and them that be bowed down. What the universe and the animal creation do unconsciously, God’s people are to do…
A Higher Source of Comfort
A Higher Source of Comfort Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?(Lamentations 3:38) Lamentations 3:37-38 is a Scripture passage that offends many people. They find it difficult to accept that both calamities and good things come from God. People often ask the question, “If God is a God of love, how could He allow such a calamity?” But Jesus…
The Mighty Longing
The Mighty Longing Hymnody is sweet with the longing after God, the God whom, while the singer seeks, he knows he’s already found. “His track I see and I’ll pursue”, sang our fathers only a short generation ago, but that song is heard no more in the great congregation. How tragic that we in this dark day have had our seeking done for us by our teachers. Everything is made…
The Necessity of Waiting
The Necessity of Waiting When you open your hand, they are filled with good things.(Psalm 104:28) If once our eyes are opened to the precious truth that the whole creation is ruled by the unalterable law of waiting upon God, all Nature will become a preacher, reminding us of the relationship which, founded in creation, is now taken in grace. As we read Psalm 104 and learn…
The Great Mystery
The Great Mystery For we walk by faith, not by sight. (2 Corinthians 5:7) Obedience to Jesus’ authority provides the key to understanding what is for many the great mystery of Christianity: faith. Saving faith-that by which we are justified, made right with God-is a gift of God; and yes, it involves a rational process as well because it comes from hearing the Word of God.…
Only Through Experience
Only Through Experience O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you.(John 17:25) Scripture is filled with descriptions of God’s character. You can read these accounts and believe them to be true about God. Yet God does not merely want you to read about Him, He wants you to know Him. For the Greeks, to know something meant you understood a…
Hearing God
Hearing God Let me hear what God the Lord will speak.(Psalm 85:8) Hearing God? A daring idea, some would say-presumptuous and even dangerous. But what if we were made for it? What if the human system simply will not function properly without it? There are good reasons to think it will not. The fine texture as well as the grand movements of life show the need. Is it not,…