June • 60 entries
Morning • 6/1
Genesis 1:5
Was it so even in the beginning? Did light and darkness divide the realm of time on the first day? Then it is little wonder if I also have changes in my circumstances, from the sunshine of prosperity to the midnight of adversity. It will not always be the blaze of noon, even in m…
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Evening • 6/1
Isaiah 51:3
It seems to me, I see in vision a howling wilderness, a great and terrible desert, like the Sahara. I perceive nothing in it to relieve the eye; all around, I am wearied with a vision of hot and arid sand, strewn with ten thousand bleaching skeletons of wretched men who have peri…
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Morning • 6/2
Galatians 5:17
In every believer’s heart there is a constant struggle between the old nature and the new. The old nature is very active, and loses no opportunity of employing all the weapons of its deadly arsenal against newborn grace; while on the other hand, the new nature is ever on the watc…
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Evening • 6/2
Matthew 19:16
If the young man in the gospel used this title in speaking to our Lord, how much more fittingly may I address him in this way! He is indeed my Master in both senses: a ruling Master and a teaching Master. I delight to run his errands and to sit at his feet. I am both his servant…
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Morning • 6/3
1 Chronicles 4:23
Potters were not the very highest grade of workers, but “the king” needed potters, and therefore they were in royal service, although the material upon which they worked was nothing but clay. We, too, may be engaged in the most menial part of the Lord’s work, but it is a great pr…
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Evening • 6/3
Philippians 2:8
Jesus is the great teacher of humility of heart. We need daily to learn from him. See the Master taking a towel and washing his disciples’ feet! Follower of Christ, will you not humble yourself? See him as the Servant of servants, and surely you cannot be proud! Is not this sente…
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Morning • 6/4
Titus 3:4
How sweet it is to behold the Saviour communing with His own beloved people! There can be nothing more delightful than, by the Divine Spirit, to be led into this fertile field of delight. Let the mind for an instant consider the history of the Redeemer’s love, and a thousand ench…
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Evening • 6/4
1 Timothy 3:16
We have seen our well-beloved Lord in the days of His flesh, humiliated and sorely troubled; for He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. He whose brightness is like the morning, wore the sackcloth of sorrow as His daily dress: shame was H…
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Morning • 6/5
Genesis 7:16
Noah was shut in away from all the world by the hand of divine love. The door of electing purpose interposes between us and the world which lies in the wicked one. We are not of the world even as our Lord Jesus was not of the world. Into the sin, the gaiety, the pursuits of the m…
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Evening • 6/5
1 John 4:8
The distinguishing mark of a Christian is his confidence in the love of Christ, and the yielding of his affections to Christ in return. First, faith sets her seal upon the man by enabling the soul to say with the apostle, “Christ loved me and gave himself for me.” Then love gives…
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Morning • 6/6
Job 40:4
One cheering word, poor lost sinner, for you! You think you must not come to God because you are vile. Now, there is not a saint living on earth who has not been made to feel that he is vile. If Job, Isaiah, and Paul were all obliged to say, “I am vile,” oh, poor sinner, will you…
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Evening • 6/6
2 Corinthians 11:22
We have here a personal claim , and one that needs proof . The apostle knew that his claim was indisputable, but there are many people who have no right to the title who nevertheless claim to belong to the Israel of God. If we are confidently declaring, “So am I also an Israelite…
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Morning • 6/7
Psalm 97:10
You have good reason to “hate evil,” for only consider what harm it has already done to you. Oh, what a world of mischief sin has brought into your heart! Sin blinded you so that you could not see the beauty of the Savior; it made you deaf so that you could not hear the Redeemer’…
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Evening • 6/7
Revelation 3:19
If you wish to see souls converted, if you wish to hear the cry that the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord ; if you wish to place crowns upon the head of the Saviour, and his throne lifted high, then be filled with zeal. For, under God, the way of the wo…
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Morning • 6/8
1 Chronicles 5:22
Warrior, fighting under the banner of the Lord Jesus, observe this verse with holy joy, for as it was in the days of old, so it is now: if the war is of God, the victory is sure. The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh could barely muster forty-five thousa…
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Evening • 6/8
Numbers 11:23
God had made a positive promise to Moses that for a whole month he would feed the vast host in the wilderness with flesh. Moses, being overtaken by a fit of unbelief, looks to the outward means, and is at a loss to know how the promise can be fulfilled. He looked to the creature…
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Morning • 6/9
Psalm 126:3
Some Christians are sadly prone to look on the dark side of everything, and to dwell more upon what they have gone through than upon what God has done for them. Ask for their impression of the Christian life, and they will describe their continual conflicts, their deep affliction…
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Evening • 6/9
John 5:39
The Greek word translated here as search signifies a strict, close, diligent, curious search, such as men make when they are seeking gold, or hunters when they are earnestly pursuing game. We must not be satisfied with merely giving a superficial reading to a chapter or two; inst…
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Morning • 6/10
Romans 14:8
If God had willed it, each of us might have entered heaven at the moment of conversion. It was not absolutely necessary for our preparation for immortality that we should remain here. It is possible for a person to be taken to heaven, and to be found fit to be a partaker of the i…
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Evening • 6/10
John 5:39
Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega of the Bible. He is the constant theme of its sacred pages; from first to last they testify of him. At the creation we at once discern him as one of the sacred Trinity; we catch a glimpse of him in the promise of the woman’s seed; we see him ty…
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Morning • 6/11
1 John 4:19
There is no light in the planet but that which proceeds from the sun; and there is no true love to Jesus in the heart but that which comes from the Lord Jesus himself. From this overflowing fountain of the infinite love of God, all our love to God must spring. This must ever be a…
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Evening • 6/11
Psalm 76:3
Our Redeemer’s glorious cry, It is finished, was the death-knell of all the adversaries of His people, the breaking of the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Behold the Hero of Golgotha using His cross as an anvil, and His woes as a hammer, dashing to s…
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Morning • 6/12
Daniel 5:27
It is good to weigh ourselves frequently in the scale of God’s Word. You will find it a holy exercise to read some psalm of David, and, as you meditate upon each verse, to ask yourself, “Can I say this? Have I felt as David felt? Has my heart ever been broken on account of sin, a…
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Evening • 6/12
2 Timothy 1:9
The apostle uses the perfect tense and says, “Who hath saved us.” Believers in Christ Jesus are saved. They are not looked upon as persons who are in a hopeful state, and may ultimately be saved, but they are already saved. Salvation is not a blessing to be enjoyed upon the dying…
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Morning • 6/13
Revelation 22:17
Jesus says, “take freely.” He wants no payment or preparation. He seeks no recommendation from our virtuous emotions. If you have no good feelings, if you are but willing, you are invited; therefore come! You have no belief and no repentance—come to him, and he will give them to…
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Evening • 6/13
Proverbs 30:8
“O my God, be not far from me” (Psalm 38:21). Here we have two great lessons—what to deprecate and what to supplicate. The happiest state of a Christian is the holiest state. As there is the most heat nearest to the sun, so there is the most happiness nearest to Christ. No Christ…
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Morning • 6/14
Psalm 37:4
The teaching of these words must seem very surprising to those who are strangers to vital godliness, but to the sincere believer it is only the inculcation of a recognized truth. The life of the believer is here described as a delight in God, and we are thus assured of the great…
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Evening • 6/14
Daniel 9:8
A deep sense and clear sight of sin, its heinousness, and the punishment which it deserves, should make us lie low before the throne. We have sinned as Christians. Alas! that it should be so. Favoured as we have been, we have yet been ungrateful; privileged beyond most, we have n…
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Morning • 6/15
Genesis 21:6
It was far above the power of nature, and even contrary to its laws, that the aged Sarah should be honoured with a son; and even so, it is beyond all ordinary rules that I, a poor, helpless, undone sinner, should find grace to carry in my soul the indwelling Spirit of the Lord Je…
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Evening • 6/15
Revelation 3:7
Jesus is the keeper of the gates of paradise, and before every believing soul he sets an open door, which no man or devil will be able to close against it. What joy it will be to find that faith in him is the golden key to the everlasting doors! My soul, do you carry this key in…
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Morning • 6/16
John 10:28
The Christian should never think or speak lightly of unbelief. For a child of God to mistrust his love, his truth, his faithfulness, must be greatly displeasing to him. How can we ever grieve him by doubting his upholding grace? Christian! It is contrary to every promise of God’s…
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Evening • 6/16
Psalm 27:1
“The Lord is my light and my salvation.” Here is personal interest, “my light,” “my salvation;” the soul is assured of it, and therefore declares it boldly. Into the soul at the new birth divine light is poured as the precursor of salvation; where there is not enough light to rev…
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Morning • 6/17
Psalm 12:1
The prayer itself is remarkable , for it is short , but seasonable, pithy , and suggestive . David mourned the scarcity of faithful men and therefore lifted up his heart in supplication—when the creature failed, he flew to the Creator. He evidently felt his own weakness, or he wo…
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Evening • 6/17
Numbers 21:17
Famous was the well of Beer in the wilderness, because it was the subject of a promise : That is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water. The people needed water, and it was promised by their gracious God. We need fresh s…
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Morning • 6/18
Isaiah 54:5
Jesus, the Redeemer, is altogether ours and ours forever. All the offices of Christ are held on our behalf. He is king for us, priest for us, and prophet for us. Whenever we read a new title of the Redeemer, let us appropriate him as ours under that name as much as under any othe…
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Evening • 6/18
Song of Solomon 5:1
The heart of the believer is Christ’s garden. He bought it with his precious blood, and he enters it and claims it as his own. A garden implies separation . It is not the open common; it is not a wilderness; it is walled around, or hedged in. If only we could see the wall of sepa…
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Morning • 6/19
Acts 2:4
Rich were the blessings of this day if all of us were filled with the Holy Ghost. It would be impossible to overestimate the consequences of this sacred filling of the soul. Life, comfort, light, purity, power, peace, and many other precious blessings are inseparable from the Spi…
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Evening • 6/19
Song of Solomon 2:16, 17
Surely if there is a happy verse in the Bible, it is this: “My Beloved is mine, and I am his.” So peaceful, so full of assurance, so overflowing with happiness and contentment is it, that it might well have been written by the same hand that penned the twenty-third Psalm. Yet tho…
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Morning • 6/20
Amos 9:9
Every sifting comes by divine command and permission . Satan must ask permission before he can lay a finger on Job. Even more, in some sense our siftings are directly the work of heaven , for the text says, “I will sift the house of Israel.” Satan, like a menial worker, may hold…
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Evening • 6/20
Mark 1:18
When they heard the call of Jesus, Simon and Andrew obeyed at once without hesitation. If we would always, promptly and with resolute zeal, put into practice what we hear immediately, or at the first suitable opportunity, our attendance at the means of grace, and our reading of g…
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Morning • 6/21
Psalm 45:2
The entire person of Jesus is like one gem, and His life is throughout just one impression of the seal. He is altogether complete; not only in His individual parts, but as a gracious, all-glorious whole. His character is not a mass of beautiful colors mixed chaotically, nor a hea…
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Evening • 6/21
2 Timothy 2:19
The foundation upon which our faith rests is this, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. The great fact on which genuine faith relies is that the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and that Christ also hath suffer…
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Morning • 6/22
Zechariah 6:13
Christ himself is the builder of his spiritual temple, and he has built it on the mountains of his unchangeable affection, his omnipotent grace, and his infallible truthfulness. But as it was in Solomon’s temple, so it is with this one: the materials need to be made ready. There…
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Evening • 6/22
Hebrews 12:27
We have many things in our possession at the present moment that can be shaken, and it is not fitting for a Christian to place great value on them, for there is nothing stable under these changing skies; change is inherent in all things. Yet, we have certain "things which cannot…
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Morning • 6/23
Hosea 7:8
A cake not turned is uncooked on one side ; and so Ephraim was, in many respects, untouched by divine grace; though there was some partial obedience, there was very much rebellion left. My soul, I charge you, see whether this is your case. Are you thorough in the things of God? H…
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Evening • 6/23
Romans 8:23
Even in this world, saints are God’s children, but people cannot recognize them as such, except by certain moral characteristics. The adoption is not yet manifested; the children are not yet openly declared. Among the Romans, a man might adopt a child and keep it private for a lo…
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Morning • 6/24
Luke 11:27, 28
It is naively imagined by some that it must have involved very special privileges to have been the mother of our Lord, because they assumed that she had the benefit of looking into his very heart in a way we cannot hope to do. This supposition may appear plausible, but it has lit…
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Evening • 6/24
Daniel 3:16, 18
The narrative of the manly courage and marvelous deliverance of the three holy children, or rather champions, is well calculated to excite in the minds of believers firmness and steadfastness in upholding the truth in the teeth of tyranny and in the very jaws of death. Let young…
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Morning • 6/25
Isaiah 40:9
Our knowledge of Christ is somewhat like climbing one of our Welsh mountains. When you are at the base, you see very little: the mountain itself appears to be only half as high as it really is. Confined in a little valley, you discover hardly anything but the rippling brooks as t…
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Evening • 6/25
Genesis 8:9
Reader, can you find rest apart from the ark, Christ Jesus? Then be assured that your religion is vain. Are you satisfied with anything short of a conscious knowledge of your union and interest in Christ? Then woe to you. If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfacti…
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Morning • 6/26
Isaiah 14:10
What must be the apostate professor’s doom when his naked soul appears before God? How will he bear that voice, “Depart, you cursed; you have rejected me, and I reject you; you have played the harlot, and departed from me: I also have banished you forever from my presence and wil…
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Evening • 6/26
2 Peter 1:4
Let all thought of indulging the flesh vanish forever if you would live in the power of your risen Lord. It would be ill for a man who is alive in Christ to dwell in the corruption of sin. “Why seek ye the living among the dead?” said the angel to Magdalene. Should the living dwe…
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Morning • 6/27
Exodus 8:28
This is a crafty word from the lip of the arch-tyrant Pharaoh. If the poor enslaved Israelites must go out of Egypt, then he bargains with them that they should not go very far away—not too far for them to escape the terror of his arms and the observation of his spies. In the sam…
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Evening • 6/27
1 Corinthians 7:20
Some people have the foolish notion that the only way they can live for God is by becoming ministers, missionaries, or Bible women. Unfortunately, how many would be excluded from any opportunity of magnifying the Most High if this were the case! Beloved, it is not office, it is e…
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Morning • 6/28
Hebrews 12:2
It is always the Holy Spirit’s work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan’s work is just the opposite of this, for he is constantly trying to make us regard ourselves instead of Christ. He insinuates, “Your sins are too great for pardon; you have no faith; you do no…
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Evening • 6/28
Exodus 7:12
This incident is an instructive emblem of the sure victory of the divine handiwork over all opposition. Whenever a divine principle is cast into the heart, though the devil may fashion a counterfeit and produce swarms of opponents, as surely as God is in the work, it will swallow…
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Morning • 6/29
1 Thessalonians 4:14
Let us not imagine that the soul sleeps in insensibility. “ Today shalt thou be with me in paradise, ” is the whisper of Christ to every dying saint. They “ sleep in Jesus, ” but their souls are before the throne of God, praising Him day and night in His temple, singing halleluja…
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Evening • 6/29
2 Chronicles 32:31
Hezekiah was growing so inwardly great, and priding himself so much upon the favor of God, that self-righteousness crept in, and through his carnal security, the grace of God was for a time, in its more active operations, withdrawn. Here is quite enough to account for his dealing…
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Morning • 6/30
John 17:22
Consider the superlative liberality of the Lord Jesus, for he has given us his all. Although a tithe of his possessions would have made a universe of angels rich beyond all thought, yet he was not content until he had given us all that he had. It would have been surprising grace…
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Evening • 6/30
Jeremiah 32:17
At the very time when the Chaldeans surrounded Jerusalem, and when the sword, famine, and pestilence had desolated the land, Jeremiah was commanded by God to purchase a field and have the deed of transfer legally sealed and witnessed. This was a strange purchase for a rational ma…
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