Heaven

Evening, July 31

1Ch 9:33

… God’s praise is constant in heaven, which is to be thy final dwelling-place, learn thou to practise the eternal hallelujah. Around the earth as the sun …

The Silken Fetter

Hosea 3:5

… Survey the nightly Heaven and feel how true it is, "An undevout astronomer is mad." Galen, the physician, when studying the marvelous fabric of the human body, declared …

'A Time to Love'

Ecclesiastes 3:8

… Let us never forget that eternal council chamber where Christ undertook to be our Surety and Substitute and, in due time, to die for us, "the Just for …

"Return, Return, O Shulamite; Return, Return!"

Song 6:13

… heaven and all its glories, it were to choose a terrible death-bed, with a guilty conscience ringing the knell of your soul; it were to choose eternal …

Evening, January 22

Job 1:9

… earth and made meet for heaven; you will be delivered from clinging to the present, and made to long for those eternal things which are so soon to …

Evening, January 23

Song 1:4

… We remember, O Jesus, thine eternal love when thou didst become our Surety, and espouse us as thy betrothed. We remember the love which suggested the sacrifice of …

A Little Sanctuary

Ezekiel 11:16

… To make heaven the sweeter we may find our exile made bitter. Our education for eternity may necessitate spiritual tribulation, and bereavement from visible comforts. To be weaned …

The Fruits of Grace

Isaiah 19:18-25

… praise him in heaven. The soul that lisps out its desires sincerely to God shall one day sing with cherubim and seraphim before the eternal throne. But I …

Morning, August 26

Ps 111:9

… lodge, and heaven their home. They see in it an inheritance reserved and entailed to every soul possessing an interest in its ancient and eternal deed of gift …

Spiritual Gleaning

… Happy gleaner who finds eternal love and eternal life in the fields in which he gleans!

God's Glory in the Building Up of Zion

Psalm 102:16

… And one reason why some saints will have a greater fullness of Heaven than others to rejoice in will be because they did more for Heaven than others …

The Wall Daubed with Untempered Mortar

Ezekiel 13:10-12

… Heaven, like a scroll, has been rolled up and put away—these all important things our wiseacres think but trifles—and they continue trampling God's eternal Truth …

Evening, February 29

1Co 2:12

… Then through my calling, I see my election, and knowing myself to be called of God, I know myself to have been chosen in the eternal purpose. A …

Retreat Impossible

Judges 11:35

… Some of us did this years ago and— "High Heaven that heard the solemn vow, That vow, renewed, has often heard," and shall hear it again! We profess …

Psalm 147

Psalm 147

… who had, in ten thousand ways, provoked the justice of heaven, and deserved only indignation and eternal wrath—the health of man, whom, in an instant, he could …

Good Cheer From Forgiven Sin

Matthew 9:2

… So, depend upon it, if you get sin pardoned and so are saved from the eternal wrath of God, you will make no bargain with God whether you …

Everybody's Sermon

Hosea 12:10

… When Christ was on earth he preached in parables, and, though he is in heaven now, he is preaching in parables to-day. Providence is God’s sermon …

Behold The Lamb!

John 1:36

… It is cruel to amuse with trifles those whose souls are in jeopardy of eternal fire! Playing with men's souls is murderous work and truly, if the …

Morning, July 23

Ob 1:11

… When we sin, who are the chosen favourites of heaven, we sin with an emphasis; ours is a crying offence, because we are so peculiarly indulged. If an …

David Dancing Before the Ark Because of His Election

2 Samuel 6:20-22

… The very worst side of the world will be turned towards you when you have been nearest to the eternal Throne. Probably Michal had never spoken so to …

The Mediator—Judge And Savior

Acts 10:42

… He has authority to pass by transgression, iniquity and sin in His own name, as in the name of the Eternal God. His Atonement has made it possible …

The Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:26

… Brothers and Sisters, it is a solemn thing to think that every time we come to the Communion Table, we bring before the Eternal Father the memorial of …

Evening, January 6

Eze 33:22

… eternal things. O that I may in this sense feel the Lord dealing with me! A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven …

Evening, December 6

Rev 1:13

… A girdle , for Jesus never was ungirt while upon earth, but stood always ready for service, and now before the eternal throne he stays not His holy ministry …

The Lord's Supper—simple But Sublime!

1 Corinthians 11:25

… He whom all Heaven adores, who sits upon the loftiest Throne in Heaven, once did hang upon the Cross in extreme agony for me—for me." I know …

Evening, January 1

Song 1:4

… to cast into Marah’s bitter pool, with joy will magnify the Lord. Eternal Spirit, our effectual Comforter, we who are the temples in which thou dwellest, will …

Morning, June 20

Am 9:9

… Nay, 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 drudge …

Evening, November 8

Mk 14:14

… What an honour to entertain the Son of God! The heaven of heavens cannot contain him, and yet he condescends to find a house within our hearts! We …

Our Service For Christ Never Finished

Luke 17:7-10

… If you think to have Heaven this side the Jordan, you are greatly mistaken. Heaven is to be hereafter, but Heaven is not, "by-and-by." This is …

The Covenant Promise of the Spirit

Ezekiel 36:27

… In that Covenant, every sentence is more precious than Heaven and earth—and this line is not the least among His choice words of promise—"I will put …

The Question of Questions

John 9:35

… If you really have not believed in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, you are resting short of eternal life! Meanwhile, you come up to the Lord's …

Morning, August 17

Ps 52:8

… There was no right on the sinner’s part to the kind consideration of the Most High; had the rebel been doomed at once to eternal fire he …

Evening, July 3

2Ti 2:12

… not “suffering with Christ,” and have no hope of reigning with him in heaven. Neither are we to conclude that all a Christian’s sufferings are sufferings with …

First Things First

… Are you not much better than they?" If you have a Father in Heaven to care for you, are you not put to shame by every little bird …

Lost Through One-Saved Through One

Romans 5:16

… One transgression, then, brought judgment upon Adam and will bring judgment upon all who are not protected and preserved by the Second Adam, the Lord from Heaven! When …

Understandest Thou What Thou Readest?

Acts 8:30-33

… It is a book which speaks to us about our lives (for the soul is the true life), and about the bliss eternal, and the way to win …

The Sinful Made Sinless

1 John 3:4

… He has gone into Glory, but Believers have not forgotten those angelic words to the disciples, "This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into Heaven, shall …

Evening, December 28

Mt 10:34

… Better a brief warfare and eternal rest, than false peace and everlasting torment.

Psalm 132

Psalm 132

… God in the church is the wonder of heaven, the miracle of eternity, the glory of infinite love. Verse 14. This is my rest for ever. Oh, glorious …

Wholehearted Religion

Jeremiah 32:39

… current ever increasing in strength till in the ocean of eternal love you lose yourselves in Heaven above! I can wish you no greater blessing than that the …