Providence

A Wise Desire

Psalm 47:4

… Scripture is the best book of providence we have ever read. If any one should ask me for a book of anecdotes illustrative of providence, I should refer …

A Strange Yet Gracious Choice

Psalm 135:4

… He might have chosen angels, but let it always stand as a wonderful instance of His mysterious Sovereignty that He did not choose the fallen angels—no, not …

Strong Meat

Hebrews 5:14

… Oh, it is a grand thing to be able to receive the whole Truth of God—to learn human responsibility as well as Divine Sovereignty. To see God …

The Pastor's Joy and Confidence

Philippians 1:3-7

… They ascribed their salvation to Sovereign Grace even as he did. The life in them as babes in Grace was the same life which dwelt in him as …

'Life for a Look'

Isaiah 45:22

… rejoices that he is found! Yet also remember that God's mercy is Sovereign—He saves whom He will—and that there is no reason known to you …

The First Note of My Song

Psalm 103:3

… Though there is nothing in you to commend you to the Divine regard, you are now in just such a state as best prepares you for His Sovereign …

Morning, August 12

Ps 97:1

… thy pains, God o'er all forever reigns.” In heaven none doubt the sovereignty of the King Eternal, but all fall on their faces to do him homage …

Zechariah'S Vision Of Joshua The High Priest

Zechariah 3:1-5

… Does eternal love ordain sinners to eternal life irrespective of their works? Does the Lord absolutely, out of sovereign mercy, make men to be His children? Did God …

Rest, Rest

Matthew 11:28-30

… What is wanted now is a new government; the soul must have a sovereign, a ruling principle, a master-motive; and when Jesus has taken that position, rest …

The Philosophy of Promise

Isaiah 42:9

… Your Grace is most sovereign, most rich, and most free." The promise of the Covenant runs thus—"I will call them My people that were not My people …

Evening, October 6

Nu 12:1

… Knowing as we do our secret guiltiness, unfaithfulness, and black-heartedness, we are dissolved in grateful admiration of the matchless freeness and sovereignty of grace. Jesus must have …

Morning, May 10

1Co 15:20

… Moreover, Christ’s sovereignty depends upon his resurrection, “For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead …

Morning, December 9

Is 30:18

… Sometimes it is to show his power and his sovereignty, that men may know that Jehovah has a right to give or to withhold. More frequently the delay …

Evening, September 2

Jn 4:48

… he has a right royal heart, he spurns all dictation, and maintains his sovereignty of action. Why, dear reader, if such be your case, do you crave for …

Morning, September 13

Ps 84:6

… Grace may well be compared to rain for its purity, for its refreshing and vivifying influence, for its coming alone from above, and for the sovereignty with which …

Morning, September 10

Mk 3:13

… and they came unto him.” Mark 3:13 Here was sovereignty. Impatient spirits may fret and fume, because they are not called to the highest places in the …

Choice Comfort for a Young Believer

Psalm 138:8

… Devils of Hell and men under their influence, no doubt think to stop the path of God in Divine Providence, but He who can lift the telescope of …

Morning, February 3

Ro 8:12

… What a debtor thou art to divine sovereignty ! How much thou owest to his disinterested love, for he gave his own Son that he might die for thee …

Runaway Jonah and the Convenient Ship

Jonah 1:3

… Did not Providence say, "Go to the well-watered plain of Sodom"? What could be more plain? I have known a sort of Providence speak in that fashion …

A Good Soldier Of Jesus Christ

2 Timothy 2:2

… you to yourself, and if you, yourself are right, let fate, or Providence, or Sovereignty, take care of the rest." Paul does not appear to have pictured true …

Perfect Cleansing

Joel 3:21

… It is only Christ's coming that can make a millennium! And when He shall come with power as well as purity, with reigning sovereignty as well as …

Refined, But Not With Silver

Isaiah 48:10

… In all this, Divine Sovereignty operates in connection with Divine love and Divine wisdom, purifying all the sons of Levi, giving to each one his own separate purification …

Evening, March 21

Job 38:31

… On the other hand, if the Lord in sovereignty, or in justice, bind up a man so that he is in soul bondage, who can give him liberty …

The Heart of The Gospel

… In his Divine Sovereignty he accepted him, and before that sovereignty we bow. If any question it, our only answer is, "Nay but, O man, who art thou …

The Anxious Enquirer

Job 23:3

… Ah, that is a word that is not often mentioned in pulpits! Divine Sovereignty is a very unfashionable Doctrine. Few people care to hear of a God who …

A Promise For Us And For Our Children

Isaiah 44:1-5

… They have become like the dry and thirsty desert, but the day will yet dawn when God's sovereign love shall again visit them and His Spirit shall …

First, King of Righteousness, and after That, King of Peace

Hebrews 7:2

… that He is a righteous King—yes, the very King of Righteousness—the Sovereign of the realm of equity, the Supreme Lord of everything that is good and …

The Master’s Profession—The Disciple’s Pursuit

Psalm 40:9

… I must confess that the sovereignty of God is a great mountain whose top we cannot scale. I often marvel at the coldness with which some men talk …

Fragrant Graces

Songs 1:12

… But lo, He came to you when you did not seek Him! He came in the Sovereignty of His Grace and the sweetness of His mercy when you …

Man'S Thoughts And God'S Thoughts

Isaiah 55:8

… You have thus invaded the crown rights of the King of kings, and committed treason against His sovereignty which He guards most jealously. Worst of all you have …

Deliverance From the Pit

Job 33:24

… account! You are going, Friend, you are going down to the Pit unless Sovereign Mercy shall step in and prevent it! Further, there are some who, of set …

Declaring the Works of the Lord

Psalm 118:17

… If men care little for the story of Creation, Providence, or Redemption, they care still less for the great mystery of Regeneration. They do not believe in it …

Psalm 144

Psalm 144

… LORD, what is man that thou takest knowledge of him? In one breath is both sovereignty and subjugation: an absolute sovereignty over his people: My people are subdued …

Early Criticisms and Slanders

… sovereignty of God; and too well acquainted with the writings of Toplady and Tucker not to see in the Bible the doctrine of predestination, and an overruling providence …

Light—Natural And Spiritual

Genesis 1:1-5

… by and He said in the sovereignty of His love, "Live," and we live! The whole must be traced to Sovereign Grace—from this sacred well of discriminating …

Unsubmissive Prayers

… seemeth Him good.” Prayer was never meant to be a fetter upon the sovereignty of God. We must always subjoin at the bottom of the prayer this heavenly …

Choice Portions

Deuteronomy 32:9

… The world and they that dwell therein." By creation, as well as by Providence, Jehovah is the liege Lord and Sovereign possessor of the entire universe. Let none …

A Type and Its Teaching

Genesis 22:8

… But he, like his father, is ready to say to that Sovereign command of God, "Here I am." He allows himself to be bound by his aged sire …

The Cause and Effect of Heart Trouble

John 14:27

… They think that there ought to be some more lenient dispensations of Providence for them. They imagine themselves to be the kind of persons upon whom the sun …

The Fruits of Grace

Isaiah 19:18-25

… Oh! how wondrous is the sovereignty of God! The devil cannot dye a soul so scarlet in sin but what the blood of Christ can make it white …