Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning; then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness.
~ Thomas Adams (1583-1652)
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Unto Us A Child Is Born
Those Little Feet
A Complete Savior
“For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”
~ Luke 2:11 (NKJV)
God has provided and appointed [a Savior] from all eternity; and he had been long promised and much expected as such in time, even from the beginning of the world; and is a great One, being God as well as man, and so able to work out a great salvation for great sinners, which he has done; and he is as willing to save as he is able, and is a complete Savior, and an only, and an everlasting one: hence his name is called Jesus, because he saves from sin, from Satan, from the law, from the world, from death, and hell, and the wrath to come.
~ John Gill, Exposition of the Whole Bible
An Attestation of Love
Works are not required for the justification of our persons, but as an attestation of our love to God; not as the cause of our salvation, but as an evidence of our adoption.
~ Thomas Watson (1620-1686)
Living At All
He Is Like A Rose
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.
~ Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Is It True?
Out Of Their Hearts
“I have sometimes heard of ministers that have been quite exhausted by the preparation of a single sermon for the Sunday. I am told, indeed, that one sermon on a Sunday is as much as any man can possibly prepare. It is such laborious work to elaborate a sermon. And then I say to myself, ‘Did my Lord and Master require his servants to preach such sermons as that?’ Is it not probable that they would do a great deal more good, if they never tried to do any such fine things, but just talked out of their hearts of the simplest truths of his blessed gospel.”
~ Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)
Sure To Stand
“I have set the LORD always before me: because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.”
~ Psalm 16:8
“This is the way to live. With God always before us, we shall have the noblest companionship, the holiest example, the sweetest consolation, and the mightiest influence. What vanities we should avoid, what sins we should overcome, what virtues we should exhibit, what joys we should experience if we did indeed set the LORD always before us! This is the way to be safe. When God stands at a man’s right hand, that man is himself sure to stand.
~ Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)
A Prayer Life 