For the Downcast Soul

An Acceptable Offering

“As prayer will not be truly prayer without the Spirit of God, so it will not be prevailing prayer without the Son of God. He, the Great High Priest, must go within the veil for us; nay, through his crucified person the veil must be entirely taken away; for, until then, we are shut out from the living God. The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior insults the Deity; and he who imagines that his own natural desires, coming up before God, unsprinkled with the precious blood, will be an acceptable sacrifice before God, makes a mistake;

In the World, Not of the World

Beware of Soul Sickness

“Pride is the swelling of the soul, lust is the fever, error the gangrene, unbelief the plague of the heart, hypocrisy the scurvy, hardness of heart the stone, anger the frenzy, malice the wolf in the breast, covetousness the dropsy, spiritual sloth the green sickness, apostasy the epilepsy; here are eleven soul diseases and when they come to the full height they are dangerous, and most frequently prove mortal.” ~ Thomas Watson

With so many fierce enemies about the believer, we must be all the more diligent to stand firm against all forms of attack, both internal and external. In the opening verses of the book of Joshua God speaks to his faithful servant and says, “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:7)

Hell Bound With the Way to Heaven in Your Head

“One sad case I must mention, that of old C.K. I visited him often, and as sure as I would begin to repeat a Gospel text he would finish it. He seemed to know almost all the Gospel texts of the Bible, but was dying in the dark. I was very anxious about him, the more so as it was evident the end was nearing. I called one day.

The Estimation of Sin

“A man who fears not God, will break all his laws with an easy conscience, but one who is the favorite of heaven, who has been indulged to sit at royal banquets, who knows the eternal love of God to him, cannot bear that there should be any evil way in him that might grieve the Spirit and bring dishonor to the name of Christ. A very little sin, as the world calls it, is a very great sin to a truly awakened Christian.”

~ Charles Spurgeon

He Cares for You

“Lie passive in God’s hands,
And know no will but His.”

It Will Be Worth It All

Arise and Come

The hand of a living Redeemer is now held out from heaven; but it may be withdrawn. The Fountain is open  now; but it may be soon closed forever. “If any man thirst, let him come and drink” without delay. Though you have been a great sinner, and have resisted warnings, counsel, and sermons, yet come. Though you have sinned against light and knowledge, against a father’s advice, and a mother’s tears, though you have lived for years without a Sabbath, and without prayer, yet come. Say not what you know not how to come, that you do not understand what it is to believe, that you must wait for more light.

Mortify Sinful Deeds

Romans 8:13 “For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.”

Here we have laid on us as saints and children of God the responsibility to put to death those sinful deeds of the body. Though redeemed, though washed in the precious blood of Christ, though secure in the arms of our Sovereign Lord, we must not rest while in this continuing battle.