Category Archives: Bible

February 8 “Lo, I am with you all the appointed days.” (Matt. 28:20.) (Variorum Version.) DO not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear. Rather look at them with full hope that, as they arise, God, whose you are, will deliver you out of them. He has kept you hitherto;Continue reading “Streams in the Desert”

February 7 “Why art thou cast down, O my soul.” (Psalm 43:5.) IS there ever any ground to be cast down? There are two reasons, but only two. If we are as yet unconverted, we have ground to be cast down; or if we have been converted and live in sin, then we are rightlyContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

February 6 “He turned the sea into dry land; they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.” (Psalm 66:6.) IT is a striking assertion, “through the floods” (the place where we might have expected nothing but trembling and terror, anguish and dismay) “there,” says the Psalmist, “did we rejoice inContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

10 FEBRUARY (PREACHED 6 FEBRUARY 1777) The plague in our hearts ‘What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, andContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

9 FEBRUARY (PREACHED 6 FEBRUARY 1777) All persons and all cases ‘What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, andContinue reading “365 days with Newton”