Heaven

Morning, January 18

Heb 4:9

… Ah, toil-worn labourer, only think when thou shalt rest forever! Canst thou conceive it? It is a rest eternal ; a rest that “remaineth.” Here, my best joys …

Morning, June 22

Zec 6:13

… Our prayers and efforts cannot make us ready for heaven, apart from the hand of Jesus, who fashioneth our hearts aright. As in the building of Solomon’s …

The Singular Origin of a Christian

Ephesians 2:10

… sent of God to ripen us for the eternal future. Yes, I may even say that the glories of Heaven call us to a sublime life of holiness …

Christ's Care of His Disciples

John 18:8

… These words spoke Jesus, and lifted up His eyes to Heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify Your Son, that Your Son may also glorify You …

God Comforting His People

Isaiah 49:13

… be missing without you! The hallelujah chorus of Heaven would lack some of its jubilant notes and the eternal orchestra would miss one of its players on golden …

Evening, December 12

Ho 5:7

… grace, preserved in Christ Jesus, accepted in the Beloved, on thy way to heaven, and yet, “thou hast dealt treacherously” with God, thy best friend; treacherously with Jesus …

Baptism Essential To Obedience

Mark 16:16

… And no man has ascended up to Heaven but He that came down from Heaven, even the Son of Man which is in Heaven. It is Christ who …

Immanuel—The Light of Life

Isaiah 9:1

… He was by Eternal Covenant the King of that land and no Assyrian could keep Him from His throne. Whatever the enemy might do, the land was still …

Divine Destruction and Protection

Ezekiel 17:29

… Consider next, if ye can, the eternal purpose of God that he would create. He determines it in his mind. Could any but a divine motive actuate the …

Bands of Love; or, Union to Christ

… In heaven they marry not, but are as the angels of God; yet is there this one marvellous exception to the rule, for in heaven Christ and His …

The Pleiades and Orion

Job 38:31

… The farmer is entirely dependent upon the God of Heaven. He may plow with industry and cast in the good seed with hope, but unless the sweet influences …

The Amen

Revelation 3:14

… In this sense we use it at the close of our prayers. "Our Father who are in Heaven" is not a complete model of public prayer till it …

Christ Seen as God's Salvation

Luke 2:30

… Then came the grand debate, the mighty question to be only solved by the supreme Intellect of Heaven, "How can sinners be reconciled to God?" And the Covenant …

A Promise and a Providence

Ezekiel 34:15

… There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rides upon the Heaven to your help, andin His excellence in the sky. The eternal God is your …

Evening, May 18

Heb 12:11

… sweetly will he sing in heaven! If he can praise the Lord in the fires, how will he extol him before the eternal throne! If evil be good …

The Prodigal's Return

Luke 15:20

… Yes, sir, to-day you think yourself second to none but the Eternal; you fancy that you can approach his throne with steady step; it is but a …

Two Loving Invitations

John 1:39

… eternal union—one! What does this mean, Believer?— "One when He died. One when He rose; One when He triumphed over His foes! One when in Heaven He …

Morning, February 5

1Jn 4:14

… the God of heaven. Since to the Man Christ Jesus thou art brother, and holdest closest fellowship, thou art linked thereby with God the Eternal, and “the Ancient …

Psalm 30

Psalm 30

… Is it not the gift of eternal life that is our happiness in heaven; but as David saith, "in his favour is life." If a damned soul should …

The Righteous Holding On His Way

Job 17:9

… to Heaven, and he ran in it—but after awhile he tired, he fainted, and he deliberately set his face Hell-ward and gave up eternal life, pawning …

Faith and Repentance Inseparable

Mark 1:15

… Every creature under heaven is commanded to believe in the Lord Jesus, and bow the knee at his name; every creature, wherever the gospel comes, wherever the truth …

Servitude Or Service—Which?

2 Chronicles 12:8

… Be not so unwise, but, tonight, enter the right train! Lay hold on eternal life! Put your trust in Jesus and may we meet in Heaven without having …

A Blow at Self-Righteousness

Job 9:20

… A great rock lies in your path to heaven; a mountain insurmountable; a gulf impassable; and by that road no man shall ever enter into eternal life. The …

The Danger of Carnal Security

Judges 18:7

… They are going to Heaven, so they say, yet they are trying to get there without walking in the King's Highway, but sneaking behind the hedges and …

Morning, May 9

Eph 1:3

… The marvellous incarnation of the God of heaven, with all the amazing condescension and humiliation which attended it, is ours. The bloody sweat, the scourge, the cross, are …

The Christian's Manifestation

1 John 3:2

… We shall borrow the wings of our text and, like the eagle, soar towards Heaven! I. We will begin with this sentence—IT DOES NOT YET APPEAR WHAT …

Zealots

Luke 6:15

… eternal future. It looks with tearful eyes down to the flames of Hell and it cannot slumber—it looks up with anxious gaze to the glories of Heaven …

The Soul's Awakening

John 5:25

… Is the Great Eternal First Cause defunct, then, or is there no God? No, Sirs, the man's perception of God is all gone and that is all …

The Drought of Nature, the Rain of Grace and the Lesson Therefrom

Jeremiah 14:3

… Heaven itself will ring with Your praises. And even in Hell they will say, "See what God can do! He saved one who was ripe for the eternal …

Why the Heavenly Robes are White

Revelation 7:14

… Sudden Glory does not startle the inhabitants of Heaven as sudden death startles the dwellers upon earth. The immigrants to Heaven are expected and the gates stand always …

The Inexhaustible Barrel

1 Kings 17:16

… If God cannot save his people under heaven, he will save them in heaven. If the world becomes too hot to hold them, then heaven shall be the …

Evening, November 18

Ps 93:2

… When you enter heaven you shall find him there bearing the dew of his youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall still remain the perennial spring of …

A Type and Its Teaching

Genesis 22:8

… But who of all the heavenly host, what angel near the Throne of God can tell of the Eternal Father, how His heart was moved, how His heart …

Evening, June 7

Rev 3:19

… eternal future . It looks with tearful eyes down to the flames of hell, and it cannot slumber: it looks up with anxious gaze to the glories of heaven …

Sunlight for Cloudy Days

Psalm 40:17

… I suppose Heaven was not fully fit for us till Jesus went there and the very going there of our Well-Beloved has prepared Heaven for redeemed men …

'Ready, Yes, Ready!'

Isaiah 27:13

… Your sarcasms about eternal wrath cannot quench it. And all your contemptuous scorn and your arrogant pride cannot evade your doom—they do but hasten it. There are …

Evening, January 30

Eph 1:11

… You have no right to heaven in yourself: your right lies in Christ. If you are pardoned, it is through his blood; if you are justified, it is …

Morning, September 11

2Co 6:17

… You may lay up treasure; but lay it up in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, where thieves break not through nor steal. You may strive …

Our Hiding Place

Isaiah 32:2

… The highest place that Heaven affords Is His, is His by right! The King of kings, and Lord of lords, And Heaven's eternal Light." Do not look …

Evening, July 7

Eze 16:6

… In our text, we perceive a sinner with nothing in him but sin, expecting nothing but wrath; but the eternal Lord passes by in his glory; he looks …