Heaven

Up from the Country and Pressed Into Service

Mark 15:21

… Friend, nobody knows you except our Father who is in Heaven—and He has appointed you to have fellowship with His Son! I shall roughly describe you as …

Consolation Proportionate to Spiritual Sufferings

2 Corinthians 1:5

… There is no bed of down for thee; there it no riding to heaven in a chariot; the rough way must be trodden; mountains must be climbed, rivers …

Near the Kingdom, or in It?

Mark 12:34

… Watts— "Not all the outward forms of earth, Nor rites that God has given, Nor will of man, nor blood, nor birth, Can raise a soul to Heaven …

Amazing Grace

Isaiah 57:18

… I understand it all and yet, nevertheless, I mean to save him and save him, I will." Heaven itself shall be amazed that ever such a wretch was …

The Greatest Trial on Record

Psalm 2:2

… the Prince of peace is ever our Advocate before the eternal throne. The high priest next shifted his ground, and asked him concerning his doctrine —what it was …

Psalm 91

Psalm 91

… Saint Bernard interprets this of heaven ;because he thought nothing long that had an end. This, indeed, is the emphasis of heaven's joy; those blessed souls never …

Our Stronghold

Proverbs 18:10

… Who shall mutilate the Savior? "I bore you," says God, "as on eagles' wings." Who shall smite through the breast of the Eternal One, Heaven's great eagle …

Contention Ended and Grace Reigning

Isaiah 57:16-18

… And we see moving before our adoring eyes the eternal Wisdom, the infinite Patience and the immutable Love of the great Father. May it please the Lord, in …

Preparation for the Coming of the Lord

1 John 2:28

… Make no change as to the eternal verities upon which you ground your hope. As a stone, you are built on the foundation—abide there. As a branch …

The Best Strengthening Medicine

Hebrews 11:34

… Can you pray, my Brother? If you know how to pray, you can move Heaven and earth! Can you pray, my Brother? Then you can set almighty forces …

Psalm 62

Psalm 62

… Make all sure with heaven, then may you grapple with earth and hell. David expostulates with his insensate foes; he marvels at their dogged perseverance in malice, after …

A Real Hindrance to Faith

… No doubt many have had to suffer that which has maimed and lamed them for this life; but if they have entered thereby into eternal life, they have …

Samuel—an Example of Intercession

1 Samuel 12:23

… If you can overcome Heaven by prayer, you can overcome earth by preaching! If you know the art of speaking to the Eternal, it will be a small …

The Beatific Vision

1 John 3:2

… We shall not for one moment feel terrified at the sight, but rather “Our joys shall run eternal rounds, Beyond the limits of the skies. And earth’s …

"At Your Word"

Luke 5:5

… If any scoff at him for thus renouncing the comforts of settled life, he lifts his calm face to Heaven and smilingly answers to the Lord, "It is …

A Special Benediction

… Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. While you thus carefully watch over yourselves, have great …

"God, and Not Man"—What Does It Mean?

Hosea 11:9

… But my sin is terrible because it is committed against high Heaven! It is with God that I have to deal and I can say with David, 'Against …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage (Concluded)

… My eyes ache for sleep, but they shall keep open till I have invoked the blessings from above — mercies temporal and eternal — to rest on the head of …

Paul—His Cloak And His Books

2 Timothy 4:13

… There was no royal road to Heaven in those days any more than there is now. They had to go through sloughs and bogs and mire—just as …

The Unknown Giver and the Misused Gifts

Hosea 2:8

… Is it not ten thousand pities that so many miss Heaven from heedlessness and that so many go down to Hell for lack of thinking how they may …

The Lord's Own Salvation

Hosea 1:7

… For the most of men there is no going to Heaven except by the Weeping Cross. And we must drive them that way with God's thundering sentences …

The Poor Man's Friend

Psalm 10:14

… And that is the way you and I must go to Heaven. Satan's privateers will try to capture us, but we commit ourselves to the protection of …

The Great Need—Or, The Great Salvation

Isaiah 48:18

… Beloved, the eternal torment of men is no joy to God! The ruin of a sinner gives Him no satisfaction. While the calamity is such as He only …

The Guilt and the Cleansing

Psalm 51:7

… Can you picture the scene? He takes that terrible, that cursed, that Hell-kindling, that Hell-feeding thing—that fuel of the eternal Pit, that object of eternal …

The Lamentations of Jesus

Luke 19:41

… peace in Heaven and glory in the highest." Yet amidst the hosannas of the multitude, while the palm branches were yet in many hands, the Savior stopped to …

Longing To Find God

Job 23:3

… If it were in Heaven, he would try to scale its heights. If it were in the abyss, he would hopefully plunge into the deep. If God is …

The Evidence of Our Lord's Wounds

John 20:27

… In heaven, at this moment, upon the person of our blessed Lord, there are the scars of his crucifixion. Centuries have gone by, and yet he looks like …

Prayer 26 — Prayer Answered and Unanswered

… Oh! hear the publican who dares not lift his eye to heaven. Hear him while he cries, "God be merciful to me a sinner." Hear such as seem …

The Master Key—Opening the Gate of Heaven

Genesis 32:12

… Now, Brothers and Sisters, what hope have you and I of getting to Heaven? None, except that the Lord has said, "I give unto My sheep eternal life …

Peter Walking on the Sea

Matthew 14:28-31

… Some poor souls have enough faith to carry them to Heaven. Others have just enough faith to maintain decent character. But he shall be honored of God who …

Loyal to the Core

2 Samuel 15:21

… If you are a Christian you must not try to sneak to heaven round the back alleys, but march up the narrow way like a man and like …

Psalm 46

Psalm 46

… The Lord rules the angels, the stars, the elements, and all the hosts of heaven; and the heaven of heavens are under his sway. The armies of men …

"The Tender Mercy of Our God"

Luke 1:77-79

… God made heaven and earth with his fingers, but he gave his Son with his heart in order that he might save sinners. The Eternal God has thrown …

The Last Three Months at Mentone;–and Afterwards

… The dawn of Heaven breaks, The summer morn I've sighed for, — The fair, sweet morn awakes. Dark, dark hath been the midnight, But dayspring is at hand …

Psalm 3

Psalm 3

… If all the trials which come from heaven, all the temptations which ascend from hell, and all the crosses which arise from earth, could be mixed and pressed …

Psalm 80

Psalm 80

… Look down from heaven. Thou hast gone far from us, thou hast ascended to heaven. Thou hast departed from us, look down at least upon us from heaven …

Frost And Thaw

Psalm 147:16-18

… Whereas there is no Heaven for me after this life, I will make a Heaven out of this earth! And since Hell awaits me, I will at least …

The World Turned Upside Down

Acts 17:6

… In the esteem of men, the kingdom of heaven is something like this. High there on the summit, there sits the most grand rabbi, the right venerable, estimable …

How to Please God

Hebrews 11:6

… God grant that I may never doubt Him in the slightest degree! I feel that of all sins that I could ever commit against the Majesty of Heaven …

Fearful Of Coming Short

Hebrews 4:1

… The way to Heaven is by faith—we are to fear lest we have a false faith, a faltering faith, or a temporary faith— and so come short …