Heaven

Evening, February 16

Ne 9:20

… There is no spiritual good in all the world of which he is not the author and sustainer, and heaven itself will owe the perfect character of its …

Evening, October 13

Song 8:6

… death, but love bore our iniquities; a forsaken, lonely death, from which the eternal Father hid his face, but love endured the curse, and gloried over all. Never …

A Lesson of Humility

… rejoice not in this, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.” The assurance of our interest in Christ will tend to keep us humble in …

Morning, January 12

1Co 3:23

… Be thou ever one of those whose manners are Christian, whose speech is like the Nazarene, whose conduct and conversation are so redolent of heaven, that all who …

An Exciting Enquiry

Matthew 21:10

… Not to know Jesus will shut you out of Heaven though you had all the degrees of all the universities in the world appended to your name! Ignorance …

Early Criticisms and Slanders (Continued)

… It is not Christian-like to say, ‘God must wash brains in the Hyper-Calvinism a Spurgeon teaches before man can enter Heaven.’ It does not harmonize with …

Morning, April 6

Heb 13:13

… A moment’s shame will be well recompensed by eternal honour; a little while of witness-bearing will seem nothing when we are “forever with the Lord.”

In the Hay-field

… How like the grass are God’s people for this reason, that they are absolutely dependent upon the influences of heaven! Our fields are parched if vernal showers …

Morning, August 23

Is 65:19

… There are no broken friendships, nor blighted prospects in heaven. Poverty, famine, peril, persecution, and slander, are unknown there. No pain distresses, no thought of death or bereavement …

Evening, September 17

De 1:38

… God encourages you by his promises; Christ encourages you as he points to the heaven he has won for you, and the spirit encourages you as he works …

The Sweetness of God's Word

Psalm 119:103

… When we get to Heaven, I imagine it will be among our surprises to find what fools we are. When young men go to college, they think they …

Evening, March 17

Mt 5:9

… for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Thus, the peacemakers are not only pronounced to be blessed, but they are compassed about with blessings. Lord, give us grace …

Morning, August 15

Ge 24:63

… From the cedar to the hyssop, from the soaring eagle down to the chirping grasshopper, from the blue expanse of heaven to a drop of dew, all things …

Evening, September 5

Job 38:16

… If this be so in the things which are seen and temporal, I may rest assured that it is even more so in matters spiritual and eternal. Why …

Morning, December 22

Is 41:10

… The same God who directs the earth in its orbit, who feeds the burning furnace of the sun, and trims the lamps of heaven, has promised to supply …

Morning, April 26

1Co 11:24

… It appears almost impossible that those who have been redeemed by the blood of the dying Lamb, and loved with an everlasting love by the eternal Son of …

Morning, June 29

1Th 4:14

… Guarded by angel watchers, curtained by eternal mysteries, they sleep on, the inheritors of glory, till the fulness of time shall bring the fulness of redemption. What an …

Evening, September 21

Ps 26:9

… Shall one dear to Christ perish? Impossible! Hell cannot hold thee! Heaven claims thee! Trust in thy Surety and fear not!

Evening, October 28

Song 5:11

… Jesus is not a grain of gold, but a vast globe of it, a priceless mass of treasure such as earth and heaven cannot excel. The creatures are …

Morning, December 10

1Th 4:17

… rove; And myriad ages we'll adore, The wonders of his love.” In heaven there shall be no interruptions from care or sin; no weeping shall dim our …

Morning, December 18

Joe 2:13

… worship is a solemn sham and an impudent mockery of the majesty of heaven. Heart-rending is divinely wrought and solemnly felt . It is a secret grief which …

The Bellows Burned

Jeremiah 6:29

… Now, alas, this is no solitary case, for throughout the whole history of the line of Heaven-sent ambassadors, this has been the rule and not the exception …

Morning, April 7

Ps 4:2

… Such was the body-guard of the adored of heaven; a quaternion of brutal gamblers. 4. A throne of honour was found for him upon the bloody tree …

Morning, October 28

Jn 15:19

… Desire to have your mind enlarged, that you may comprehend more and more the eternal, everlasting, discriminating love of God. When you have mounted as high as election …

Morning, December 2

Song 4:7

… If Jesus could exchange his elect bride for all the queens and empresses of earth, or even for the angels in heaven, he would not, for he puts …

Morning, September 23

Eph 1:6

… They are only accepted in heaven “in the beloved,” and thou art even now accepted in Christ after the same manner.

Morning, November 4

2Co 12:9

… The mere fruits of the earth he casteth away; he will only reap that corn, the seed of which was sown from heaven, watered by grace, and ripened …

David and His Volunteers

1 Chronicles 12:8-15

… He shall prolong His days and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand." Well may the enmity of the wicked provoke the irony of Heaven …

Morning, February 7

Mic 2:10

… Christian, meditate much on heaven, it will help thee to press on, and to forget the toil of the way. This vale of tears is but the pathway …

Evening, April 3

Is 53:6

… They have all fallen, and therefore, in common chorus, they all say, from the first who entered heaven to the last who shall enter there, “All we like …

Morning, July 7

1Th 5:25

… Brethren, our work is solemnly momentous, involving weal or woe to thousands; we treat with souls for God on eternal business, and our word is either a savour …

Morning, November 2

Mal 3:6

… Precious is the assurance that he changes not! The wheel of providence revolves, but its axle is eternal love. “Death and change are busy ever, Man decays, and …

Evening, December 23

Ps 74:16

… From the first watch of the night even unto the break of day the eternal Watcher observes his saints, and overrules the shades and dews of midnight for …

Evening, July 10

Ge 1:5

… evening and a morning; but the second day, when we shall be with God, forever, shall be a day with no evening, but one, sacred, high, eternal noon.

Evening, July 27

Ro 8:33

… They who wear the white robe in heaven overcame through the blood of the Lamb, and we may do the same. No lust is too mighty, no besetting …

Evening, September 30

Ec 9:4

… It is better to be the least in the kingdom of heaven than the greatest out of it. The lowest degree of grace is superior to the noblest …

Morning, November 24

Is 33:21

… What galleys, laden to the water’s edge, come to us from the millennium! What visions we have of the days of heaven upon earth! Through our glorious …

Evening, December 27

Is 58:11

… You have infallible wisdom to direct you, immutable love to comfort you, and eternal power to defend you. “Jehovah”—mark the word—“Jehovah shall guide thee continually.”

Stephen and Saul

Acts 7:58

… And, first, does not the Holy Spirit here suggest to us A VERY NOTEWORTHY CONTRAST? Here are two men—Stephen and Saul—both in Heaven now. I wonder …

Morning, March 7

Mk 11:22

… Little faith will go to heaven most certainly, but it often has to hide itself in a nut-shell, and it frequently loses all but its jewels. Little …