Even in the Most Painful Times the Christian is the Happiest of Men!

In the exercise of practical Christianity as a fainting, feeble saint walks the path toward the Celestial City, one finds many a Slough of Despond and Valleys of Humiliation along the way. Many times we fall into deep ditches of grief and anxiety. Many times thoughts of comfort and happiness are far from us. But what a thing it is to be a Christian. For it is we, though all seems against us, though all ...

Here is a Deep Sea of Bliss, a Shoreless Ocean of Delight!

Here is an old post from the 6th of December, 2008. I still remember how my heart leapt for joy beholding the depths of mercies, heights of mercies from this blessed text of Jeremiah 31:33 as Spurgeon sought to exposit and reveal the graciousness of such simple and profound words. It is my hope that you, dear Christian, would be encouraged by this day's devotion. And if not, dear visitor, and you feel little or no ...

“I Have Christ, What Want I More?”

A city missionary in London was called to an old tenement building, a lady was dying and in the last stages of disease the room was tiny and cold and the woman was lying on the floor. This missionary tried to help this lady and asked if there was anything she wanted and this is what she said, I have all I really need, I have Jesus Christ. Well the man never forgot it, and ...

If I Should Suffer, Go Unclothed, and be in Poverty. . .

Heavenly Father, if I should suffer need, and go unclothed, and be in poverty, make my heart prize Thy love, know it, be constrained by it, though I be denied all blessings. It is Thy mercy to afflict and try me with wants, for by these trials I see my sins, and desire severance from them. Let me willingly accept misery, sorrows, temptations, if I can thereby feel sin as the greatest evil, and be ...

I Count All Things to be Loss. . .

I never realized how beautiful the letter to the Philippians was 'till I heard Pastor Jim preach from it. Finally, by the Spirit of God, it makes so much sense. Not only does it make sense, but it's beauty is so grand and glorious, the message of the Gospel! Why, oh, why, to a wretch like me? All glory and honor to the sovereign God of the universe for the depths, heights, and the extents ...

“I Will be Their God.” Is That Not Enough?

“I will be their God.” (Jeremiah 31:33) Christian! here is all thou canst require. To make thee happy thou wantest something that shall satisfy thee; and is not this enough? If thou canst pour this promise into thy cup, wilt thou not say, with David, “My cup runneth over; I have more than heart can wish”? When this is fulfilled, “I am thy God”, art thou not possessor of all things? Desire is insatiable as death, ...

Murmuring, Dissatisfaction, Discontent.

"Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with such things as you have, because God has said--Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." (Hebrews 13:5) These words are very simple. A little child might easily understand them. They contain no high doctrine; they involve no deep metaphysical question; and yet, as simple as they are--the duty which these words enjoin on us, is of highest practical importance to ...