Peace

The Old Way of the Wicked

Job 22:15-17

… He ought to have been well content when all the rest of the garden was his own leasehold, to have that one tree belong to the Great Freeholder …

What the Farm Laborers Can Do and What They Cannot do

… service which your Master appoints for the morning; therefore take your rest and be at peace, and work with calm dignity, for the matter is safe in the …

Psalm 43

Psalm 43

… Be these my star to guide me to my rest. Be these my Alpine guides to conduct me over mountains and precipices to the abodes of grace. Let …

The Marvelous Magnet

John 12:32

… No doubt there is also this about the Crucified Savior—that He draws men by the wonderful rest which His death provides for men. The most earnest Christian …

The Forerunner

Hebrews 6:20

… As Jesus is the Forerunner to Heaven, rest assured that those for whom He is the Forerunner will in due time follow Him there. The least pledge of …

The Statute of David for the Sharing of the Spoil

1 Samuel 30:21-26

… I have found a great many of that sort about lately—the Truth of God is very important, but they love peace. It is quite necessary that certain …

A Holiday Drive to the New Forest

… a wearied brain by giving such perfect rest. It is better than cities, pictures, or even mountains, for all is peace, and there is not even sublimity to …

A Double Silver Wedding

… There had been no comfortable rest for us if He had not breathed peace upon us. There had been no coming in of new converts, nor going out …

Frost And Thaw

Psalm 147:16-18

… snow, and He will deliver you in as simple a manner if you rest upon Him. He opens His hand and supplies the want of every living thing …

Why Men Cannot Believe in Christ

John 5:44

… They do not come with their hearts and rest upon Him as their whole salvation. And if you ask them why not, they will not say that they …

A Call to the Unconverted

Galatians 3:10

… My harshest words are far more full of love than the smooth words of soft-speaking ministers, who say, “Peace, peace,” where there is no peace. Do you …

Frost and Thaw

… snow, and he will deliver you in as simple a manner if you rest upon him. He openeth his hand, and supplies the want of every living thing …

The Minister in These Times

… Be assured that we cannot be right in the rest, unless we think rightly of HIM. In forming your system of astronomy, where do you put the sun …

Prepared to Meet God

Amos 4:12

… Remember what Eliphaz said to Job and obey the injunction, "Acquaint yourself now with Him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto you." Child of God …

The Incarnation and Birth of Christ

Micah 5:2

… However, I wish there were ten or a dozen Christmas-days in the year; for there is work enough in the world, and a little more rest would …

The Law's Failure and Fulfillment

Romans 8:3

… It cannot speak peace to you. It cannot forgive you. To convince and to condemn is all the Law can do. It is too weak to save even …

Consolation From Resurrection

Hosea 13:14

… waters shall be sure." Oh, rest in the Lord; especially confide in the redemption of Jesus. Let the precious blood speak peace to you. For if He has …

"Lay Hold on Eternal Life!"

1 Timothy 6:12

… Always pray for students! Let them continually be mentioned in your private prayers than when those who have borne the burden and heat of the day shall rest …

A Promise and a Providence

Ezekiel 34:15

… Yet the Lord will seek them till His eyes of mercy shall rest upon them and His hands of power shall grasp them. If the Lord has an …

Faith Illustrated

… I rest no more on Peter than Peter could rest in himself, Peter must rest on Christ as a poor guilty sinner himself, an imperfect man who denied …

The Annual Atonement

Leviticus 16:30

… The Lord Jesus Christ did not pour out His heart's blood to remove one set of stains and leave the rest— He takes away from the soul …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage (Continued)

… I know and believe the promise, and am not afraid to rest upon it. All the scars I receive, are scars of honour; so, faint heart, on to …

Psalm 30

Psalm 30

… No mountain, however firm, can yield us rest when our communion with God is broken, and his face is concealed. However, in such a case, it is well …

The Overflowing Cup

Psalm 23:5

… He had no rest for the soles of his feet—his thirst after the ordinances of God's house was intense and his companions were not such as …

Five Divine Declarations

Isaiah 45:24

… shall men come," The glory of it lies in the fact that they rest in nothing but Himself. The bulk of men stop short of coming to God …

The Lord's Supper—a Remembrance Of Jesus

Luke 22:19

… fears—and when you just cast yourself upon your Lord and found peace. Come and rest in Him again. Dear Brothers and Sisters, you that are afraid that …

The Day of Salvation

2 Corinthians 6:2

… Kings can also brighten men's days when they have a mind to be quiet—they make peace and then the nations bask in the sun and earth …

Consolation In The Furnace

Daniel 3:25

… the flowers! They are walking—a symbol of joy, of ease, of peace, of rest—not flitting like unquiet ghosts, as if they were disembodied spirits traversing the …

Two Pauls and a Blinded Sorcerer

Acts 13:12

… It was a hopeful omen for the rest of the island that its proconsul was so free from prejudice that he called the two missionaries to his hall …

Consolation Proportionate to Spiritual Sufferings

2 Corinthians 1:5

… SEEK ye rest from your distresses ye children of woe and sorrow ? This is the place where ye may lighten your burden, and lose your cares. Oh, son …

A New Creation

Revelation 21:5

… By making new men, He makes a new society, which society He calls His "Church." That Church He sends into the world to act upon the rest of …

Scriptural Salvation

Romans 10:11

… The tendency is to undermine men's faith in the Bible and persuade them to rest on something else. It is not so with us, as it certainly …

A Wise Desire

Psalm 47:4

… There would be one who stands like Saul, the son of Kish, head and shoulders taller than all the rest, whom we should at once select to be …

Psalm 134

Psalm 134

… He is your Creator, and he can bless you with untold mercies; he can create joy and peace in your hearts, and make for you a new heaven …

Thought-Reading Extraordinary

Psalm 10:17

… Certain persons who have carried their heads very high have struck them against the beam and have had to go with bruised foreheads for the rest of their …

Christ the Cause of Division

John 7:43

… I dread the peace of the sepulcher far more than the battles of life. Life naturally makes a stir—it seems inevitable that it should do so—and …

Comfort for the Desponding

Job 29:2

… Though many of his people live in almost constant joy, and find that religion’s ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace, yet there …

Psalm 25

Psalm 25

… of him that feareth the Lord doth dwell, as in rest, so in goodness; as in peace, so in patience, till this moment of time be swallowed up …

Pleading

Psalm 70:5

… It is not possible for thee, O seeker, to obtain peace for thy troubled heart, till thou shalt have acknowledged thy transgression and thine iniquity before the Lord …

My Last Letters from Mentone

… strangely mingled experiences of rest and rack, of cold and heat, of storm and sunshine, of pain and pleasure ; — but, over all, the peace of God brooded like …