Thoughts

The close of Matthew 14 presents a scene in the life of our apostle on which we may dwell with profit for a few moments. It furnishes a very fine illustration of his own touching inquiry, "Lord, to whom shall we go?"...

With what perfect and entire confidence did Jesus commit Himself to His heavenly Father’s guidance! He loved to call him, "My Father!”...

What a common dictate of the fallen and regenerate heart to resent and recriminate! How alien to natural feeling ...

"Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus!" The greatest test of an earthly soldier's courage is patient endurance!...

Behold the infinite patience of Jesus! Even among His own disciples, how forbearingly He endured their blindness, their misconceptions and hardness of heart...

Isaiah had never had that kind of vision before. Most certainly he had had spiritual experiences, but never one in which the Lord was so exalted in overwhelming glory ...

How earnestly and touchingly did Christ ask His disciples: "Stay here and watch with me, while I go yonder and pray."...

Jesus was despised because of the UNWORLDLINESS OF HIS LIFE. His whole life was one ceaseless testimony against the ungodliness of this ungodly world...

The wedding dowry that John Bunyan’s wife brought to him consisted of two books. They were of greater value to him than thousands of gold and silver ...

The life of Jesus was one long martyrdom. From Bethlehem’s manger to Calvary’s cross, there was scarce one break in the clouds; these gathered more darkly and ominously around him...