Thoughts

Obedience to your Lord’s commands will affect others. Don’t refuse to obey what you know God is asking because you fear the cost to your family will be too great...

We should never forget that the gospel is the good news of the glory of Christ. True, it concerns the One who was crucified and who was buried. But He is no longer on the Cross, no longer in the Tomb...

Joseph had come seeking their welfare, yet even as he app­roached, they conspired against him. Even as our Lord Jesus "came unto his own, and his own received him not"...

How can it be possible that God should give His Son, himself, His all—and yet deny me any good thing? Will not He who is to crown me with glory above—strengthen me with grace below?...

I have heard this passage described as "a new Eden," a veritable paradise of God, and so it is...

He had no rights: No right to a soft bed, and a well-laid table; no right to a home of His own, a place where His own pleasure might be sought...

Although Christ knew that He would be crucified facing incredible sufferings from the hands of men and finally also from the hands of God, He thought more of the needs of His disciples than of the things concerning Himself...

That was the mind of Christ: To give up things and to descent lower and lower. He layed aside His outward glory, He made Himself nothing, He took the form of a bondman and became lower than the angels...

A great crisis had been reached in the life of the Lord Jesus. He had not separated Himself from His disciples in this way before, nor had they ever parted company with Him...

It is hard to fathom these words. His created beings “took Jesus” and bound Him. Pilate “took Jesus” and scourged Him; the chief priests “took Jesus” to be crucified...