May • 62 entries
Morning • 5/1
Song of Solomon 5:13
Behold, the flowery month has come! March winds and April showers have done their work, and the earth is all adorned with beauty. Come my soul, put on your holiday attire and go forth to gather garlands of heavenly thoughts. You know where to go, for to you "the beds of spices" a…
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Evening • 5/1
Song of Solomon 2:1
Whatever beauty there may be in the material world, Jesus Christ possesses all that in the spiritual world tenfold. Among flowers, the rose is deemed the sweetest, but Jesus is infinitely more beautiful in the garden of the soul than the rose can be in the gardens of earth. He ta…
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Morning • 5/2
John 17:15
It is a sweet and blessed event that will occur to all believers in God’s own time—the going home to be with Jesus. In a few more years, the Lord’s soldiers, who are now fighting the good fight of faith , will have finished with conflict and have entered into the joy of their Lor…
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Evening • 5/2
Hebrews 11:13
Consider the epitaph of all those blessed saints who fell asleep before the coming of our Lord! It does not matter how else they died, whether of old age or by violent means; this one point, in which they all agree, is most noteworthy: they all died in faith. In faith they lived—…
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Morning • 5/3
John 16:33
Are you asking the reason for this, believer? Look upward to your heavenly Father, and behold him pure and holy. Do you know that you are one day to be like him? Will you easily be conformed to his image? Will you not require much refining in the furnace of affliction to purify y…
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Evening • 5/3
Psalm 46:1
Covenant blessings are not meant to be looked at only, but to be appropriated. Even our Lord Jesus is given to us for our present use. Believer, you do not make use of Christ as you ought to do. When you are in trouble, why do you not tell him all your grief? Has he not a sympath…
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Morning • 5/4
Jeremiah 16:20
One great besetting sin of ancient Israel was idolatry, and the spiritual Israel are troubled by a tendency to the same folly. Remphan’s star shines no longer, and the women weep no more for Tammuz, but Mammon still intrudes his golden calf, and the shrines of pride are not forsa…
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Evening • 5/4
1 Peter 1:23
Peter most earnestly exhorted the scattered saints to love each other with a pure heart fervently . He wisely drew his argument not from the law, from nature, or from philosophy, but from that high and divine nature which God has implanted in his people. Just as some judicious tu…
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Morning • 5/5
2 Corinthians 6:16
What a sweet title: “My people!” What a cheering revelation: “Their God!” How much meaning is contained in those two words, “My people!” Here is speciality . The whole world is God's; the heaven, even the heaven of heavens, is the Lord's, and he reigns among the children of men;…
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Evening • 5/5
Proverbs 16:20
Wisdom is man’s true strength; and, under its guidance, he best accomplishes the ends of his being. Wisely handling the matter of life gives to man the richest enjoyment, and presents the noblest occupation for his powers; therefore, by it he finds good in the fullest sense. With…
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Morning • 5/6
1 John 4:13
Do you want a house for your soul? Do you ask, “What is the purchase?” It is something less than proud human nature will want to give. It is without money and without price . Ah! You would like to pay a respectable rent! You would love to do something to win Christ? Then you cann…
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Evening • 5/6
Job 14:14
A little stay on earth will make heaven more heavenly . Nothing makes rest so sweet as toil; nothing makes security so pleasant as exposure to alarms. The bitter quassia cups of earth will give a relish to the new wine which sparkles in the golden bowls of glory. Our battered arm…
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Morning • 5/7
Matthew 12:15
What a mass of hideous sickness must have thrust itself under the eye of Jesus! Yet we do not read that he was disgusted, but patiently tended to every case. What a singular variety of evils must have met at his feet! What sickening ulcers and putrefying sores! Yet he was ready f…
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Evening • 5/7
John 5:8
Like many others, the impotent man had been waiting for a wonder to be performed and a sign to be given. He wearily watched the pool, but no angel came, or if one did, it was not for him. Yet, thinking it to be his only chance, he still waited, and did not know that there was One…
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Morning • 5/8
John 5:13
Years are short for the happy and healthy; but thirty-eight years of disease must have dragged a very weary length along the life of the poor man with an infirmity. When Jesus, therefore, healed him by a word while he lay at the pool of Bethesda, he was delightfully aware of a ch…
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Evening • 5/8
Job 22:21
If we are to rightly acquaint ourselves with God, and be at peace, we must know him as he has revealed himself, not only in the unity of his essence and subsistence , but also in the plurality of his persons . God said, Let us make man in our own image —let man not be content unt…
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Morning • 5/9
Ephesians 1:3
All the goodness of the past, the present, and the future, Christ bestows upon his people. In the mysterious ages of the past the Lord Jesus was his Father’s first elect, and in his election he gave us an interest, for we were chosen in him from before the foundation of the world…
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Evening • 5/9
Song of Solomon 7:11,12
The church was about to engage in earnest labour, and desired her Lord’s company in it. She does not say, “I will go,” but “Let us go.” It is blessed working when Jesus is at our side! It is the business of God’s people to be trimmers of God’s vines. Like our first parents, we ar…
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Morning • 5/10
1 Corinthians 15:20
The whole system of Christianity rests upon the fact that Christ is risen from the dead; for, If Christ be not risen, then our preaching is vain, and your faith is also vain: you are still in your sins. The divinity of Christ finds its surest proof in his resurrection, since he w…
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Evening • 5/10
John 1:14
Believer, you can bear your testimony that Christ is the only begotten of the Father , as well as the first begotten from the dead. You can say, "He is divine to me, if he is human to all the world besides. He has done that for me which none but God could do. He has subdued my st…
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Morning • 5/11
Matthew 28:20
It is well there is One who is ever the same, and who is ever with us. It is well there is one stable rock amidst the billows of the sea of life. O my soul, do not set your affections upon rusting, moth-eaten, decaying treasures, but set your heart upon him who abides forever fai…
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Evening • 5/11
Joshua 1:7
Our God’s tender love for his servants makes him concerned for the state of their inward feelings. He desires them to be of good courage. Some consider it a small thing for a believer to be troubled by doubts and fears, but God does not think so. From this text it is clear that o…
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Morning • 5/12
John 14:21
The Lord Jesus gives special revelations of Himself to His people. Even if Scripture did not declare this, there are many of the children of God who could testify to its truth from their own experience. They have had manifestations of their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in a uniqu…
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Evening • 5/12
Genesis 46:3,4
Jacob must have shuddered at the thought of leaving the land of his father’s sojourning and dwelling among pagan strangers. It was a new scene, and likely to be a trying one : who would venture among the officials of a foreign monarch without anxiety? Yet the way was evidently ap…
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Morning • 5/13
Psalm 30:5
Christian! If you are in a night of trial, think of the morrow; cheer up your heart with the thought of the coming of your Lord. Be patient, for “Lo! He comes with clouds descending.” Be patient! The Husbandman waits until he reaps his harvest. Be patient; for you know who has sa…
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Evening • 5/13
Psalm 119:57
Look at your possessions, O believer, and compare your portion with the lot of others. Some of them have their portion in the field; they are rich, and their harvests yield them a golden increase; but what are harvests compared with your God, who is the God of harvests? What are…
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Morning • 5/14
Romans 8:17
The boundless realms of his Father’s universe are Christ’s by prescriptive right. As heir of all things , he is the sole proprietor of the vast creation of God, and he has admitted us to claim the whole as ours, by virtue of that deed of joint-heirship which the Lord has ratified…
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Evening • 5/14
Isaiah 40:11
Who is He of whom such gracious words are spoken? He is the Good Shepherd . Why does He carry the lambs in His bosom? Because He has a tender heart, and any weakness at once melts His heart . The sighs, the ignorance, the feebleness of the little ones of His flock draw forth His…
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Morning • 5/15
Acts 13:39
The believer in Christ receives a present justification. Faith does not produce this fruit eventually, but now . So far as justification is the result of faith, it is given to the soul in the moment when it closes with Christ and accepts him as its all in all. Are they who stand…
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Evening • 5/15
Hebrews 12:23
Remember that there are two kinds of perfection the Christian needs—the perfection of justification in the person of Jesus, and the perfection of sanctification worked in him by the Holy Spirit. At present, corruption still remains even in the hearts of the regenerate—experience…
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Morning • 5/16
1 Timothy 6:17
Our Lord Jesus is ever giving, and does not for a solitary instant withdraw his hand. As long as there is a vessel of grace not yet full to the brim, the oil will not be held back. He is a sun ever-shining; he is manna always falling around the camp; he is a rock in the desert, e…
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Evening • 5/16
2 Kings 3:16,17
The armies of the three kings were famishing for lack of water: God was about to send it, and in these words the prophet announced the coming blessing. Here was a case of human helplessness : not a drop of water could all the valiant men obtain from the skies or find in the wells…
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Morning • 5/17
1 John 2:6
Why should Christians imitate Christ? They should do it for their own sakes . If they desire to be in a healthy state of soul—if they would escape the sickness of sin and enjoy the vigor of growing grace—let Jesus be their model. For their own happiness’ sake, if they would drink…
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Evening • 5/17
Isaiah 41:9
If we have received the grace of God in our hearts, its practical effect has been to make us God’s servants . We may be unfaithful servants, we certainly are unprofitable ones, but yet, blessed be his name, we are his servants, wearing his livery, feeding at his table, and obeyin…
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Morning • 5/18
Colossians 2:9, 10
All the attributes of Christ, as God and man, are at our disposal. All the fullness of the Godhead, whatever that marvelous term may comprehend, is ours to make us complete. He cannot endow us with the attributes of Deity; but He has done all that can be done, for He has made eve…
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Evening • 5/18
Hebrews 12:11
How happy are tested Christians, afterwards . No calm is deeper than that which follows a storm. Who has not rejoiced in clear shining after rain? Victorious banquets are for well-trained soldiers. After killing the lion, we eat the honey; after climbing the Hill Difficulty, we s…
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Morning • 5/19
Ecclesiastes 10:7
Upstarts frequently usurp the highest places, while the truly great languish in obscurity. This is a riddle in providence whose solution will one day make glad the hearts of the upright; but it is so common a fact that none of us should complain if it should befall us. When our L…
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Evening • 5/19
1 Kings 19:4
It was a remarkable thing that the man who was never to die, for whom God had ordained an infinitely better lot—the man who would be carried to heaven in a chariot of fire and be translated, so that he would not see death—should pray in this way, “Let me die, I am no better than…
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Morning • 5/20
Psalm 17:7
When we give our hearts with our alms, we give well, but we must often admit failure in this respect. Not so our Master and our Lord. His favors are always performed with the love of his heart. He does not send to us the cold meat and the broken pieces from the table of his luxur…
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Evening • 5/20
Hosea 11:4
Our heavenly Father often draws us with the cords of love; but alas, how reluctant we are to run towards him! How slowly we respond to his gentle impulses! He draws us to exercise a more simple faith in him ; but we have not yet attained Abraham’s confidence. We do not leave our…
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Morning • 5/21
1 Peter 2:3
If—then, this is not a matter to be taken for granted concerning everyone in the human race. “If”—then there is a possibility and a probability that some may not have tasted that the Lord is gracious. “If”—then this is not a general but a special mercy; and it is necessary to inq…
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Evening • 5/21
Genesis 42:2
Famine pinched all the nations, and it seemed inevitable that Jacob and his family would suffer great need. But the God of providence, who never forgets the objects of His electing love, had stored a granary for His people by giving the Egyptians warning of the scarcity and leadi…
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Morning • 5/22
Psalm 107:7
Changeful experience often leads the anxious believer to inquire, “Why is it this way with me?” I looked for light, but instead, darkness came; for peace, but instead, trouble. I said in my heart, my mountain stands firm; I shall never be moved. Lord, you hide your face, and I am…
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Evening • 5/22
Song of Solomon 1:16
From every perspective, our Well-Beloved is supremely fair. Our various experiences are intended by our heavenly Father to provide fresh standpoints from which we may view the loveliness of Jesus. How welcome are our trials when they lift us high, where we may gain clearer views…
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Morning • 5/23
Psalm 138:8
Most manifestly the confidence which the Psalmist here expressed was a divine confidence . He did not say, “ I have grace enough to perfect what concerns me—my faith is so steady that it will not stagger; my love is so warm that it will never grow cold; my resolution is so firm t…
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Evening • 5/23
Isaiah 43:24
Worshippers at the temple were accustomed to bring presents of sweet perfumes to be burned upon the altar of God: but Israel, in the time of her backsliding, became ungenerous and made but few votive offerings to her Lord. This was an evidence of coldness of heart towards God and…
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Morning • 5/24
Psalm 66:20
In looking back upon the character of our prayers, if we do it honestly, we shall be filled with wonder that God has ever answered them. There may be some who think their prayers are worthy of acceptance—as the Pharisee did; but the true Christian, in a more enlightened retrospec…
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Evening • 5/24
Philippians 1:27
The word “conversation” does not merely mean our talk and interaction with one another, but the whole course of our life and behaviour in the world. The Greek word signifies the actions and the privileges of citizenship; and thus we are commanded to let our actions, as citizens o…
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Morning • 5/25
Psalm 38:21
Frequently we pray that God would not forsake us in the hour of trial and temptation, but we too often forget that we need to use this prayer at all times . There is no moment of our life, however holy, in which we can do without his constant upholding. Whether in light or in dar…
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Evening • 5/25
Luke 24:33,35
When the two disciples had reached Emmaus and were refreshing themselves at the evening meal, the mysterious stranger who had so enchanted them on the road took bread and broke it, made himself known to them, and then vanished from their sight. They had urged him to stay with the…
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Morning • 5/26
Psalm 55:22
Care, even though exercised upon legitimate objects, if carried to excess, has in it the nature of sin. The precept to avoid anxious care is earnestly taught by our Savior, again and again; it is reiterated by the apostles; and it is one which cannot be neglected without involvin…
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Evening • 5/26
Acts 14:22
Perseverance is the badge of true saints. The Christian life is not only a beginning in the ways of God, but also a continuance in those ways as long as life lasts. It is with a Christian as it was with the great Napoleon, who said, “Conquest has made me what I am, and conquest m…
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Morning • 5/27
2 Samuel 9:13
Mephibosheth was no great ornament to a royal table, yet he had a continual place at David’s board, because the king could see in his face the features of the beloved Jonathan. Like Mephibosheth, we may cry to the King of Glory, “What is thy servant, that thou shouldst look upon…
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Evening • 5/27
2 Samuel 9:8
If Mephibosheth was so humbled by David’s kindness, what shall we be in the presence of our gracious Lord? The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity. Eminent saints have hardly known what to compare themselves to, th…
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Morning • 5/28
Romans 8:30
Here is a precious truth for you, believer. You may be poor, or in suffering, or unknown, but for your encouragement, take a review of your “calling” and the consequences that flow from it, and especially that blessed result spoken of here. As surely as you are God’s child today,…
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Evening • 5/28
Lamentations 3:21
Memory is frequently the slave of despondency. Despairing minds call to remembrance every dark foreboding in the past, and dwell on every gloomy feature in the present; thus memory, clothed in sackcloth, presents to the mind a cup of mingled gall and wormwood. There is, however,…
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Morning • 5/29
Psalm 45:7
“Be ye angry, and sin not.” There can hardly be goodness in a man if he is not angry at sin; he who loves truth must hate every false way. How our Lord Jesus hated it when the temptation came! Three times it assailed him in different forms, but he always met it with, “Get thee be…
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Evening • 5/29
Joshua 6:26
Since he was cursed who rebuilt Jericho, much more the man who labors to restore Popery among us. In our fathers' days the gigantic walls of Popery fell by the power of their faith, the perseverance of their efforts, and the blast of their gospel trumpets; and now there are some…
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Morning • 5/30
Song of Solomon 2:15
A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines, and little sins do harm to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul and make it so full of what is hateful to Christ that He will not maintain comforting fellowsh…
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Evening • 5/30
Romans 6:6
Christian, what have you to do with sin? Has it not cost you enough already ? Burnt child, will you play with the fire? What! When you have already been between the jaws of the lion, will you step a second time into his den? Have you not had enough of the old serpent? Did he not…
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Morning • 5/31
2 Samuel 15:23
David passed that gloomy brook when fleeing with his mourning company from his traitor son. The man after God’s own heart was not exempt from trouble; no, his life was full of it. He was both the Lord’s Anointed and the Lord’s Afflicted. Why then should we expect to escape? At so…
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Evening • 5/31
Psalm 103:3
Humbling as the statement is, the fact is certain that we are all more or less suffering from the disease of sin. What a comfort to know that we have a great Physician who is both able and willing to heal us! Let us think of Him for a while tonight. His cures are very speedy —the…
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