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  • The Lord is my Shepherd

    Psalm 23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. This verse and the subsequent psalm is a brief one by length, but what comfort it has brought! What anxiety it has eased! What peace it has bequeathed on… Continue reading

    The Lord is my Shepherd
  • Thou God seest me

    Genesis 16:13 And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me? Hagar is a woman of the Bible that few… Continue reading

    Thou God seest me
  • New every morning!

    Lamentations 3:22-23 It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. This is perhaps one of the most beautiful and encouraging passages in the… Continue reading

    New every morning!
  • How long, O Lord?

    Revelation 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? The mighty scene that has been opened for… Continue reading

    How long, O Lord?
  • The prayers of saints

    Revelation 5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.… Continue reading

    The prayers of saints
  • The treasures of the snow

    Job 38:22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail? Job 38 is a series of questions asked by God to Job, a mortal man. It is full of eloquent… Continue reading

    The treasures of the snow
  • Behold, I stand at the door and knock

    Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. What a picture is painted… Continue reading

    Behold, I stand at the door and knock
  • But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God

    1 Samuel 30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD… Continue reading

    But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God
  • Blessed is he that readeth

    Revelation 1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. Blessed is he that readeth! There is no greater blessing… Continue reading

    Blessed is he that readeth
  • Until the day break, and the shadows flee away

    Song of Solomon 2:17 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether. What a marvelous book we have before us! What… Continue reading

    Until the day break, and the shadows flee away