So the answer to the first question is that mercy comes from a heart that has first felt its spiritual bankruptcy. The heart has come to grieve its sin, and has learned to wait meekly for the timing of the Lord, and to cry out in hunger for the work of God’s mercy to satisfy … Continue reading Blessed Are the Merciful
In the first three Beatitudes we are called upon to witness the heart exercises of one who has been awakened by the Spirit of God. First, there is a sense of need, a realization of my nothingness and emptiness. Second, there is a judging of self, a consciousness of my guilt and sorrowing over my … Continue reading More On Those Who Hunger & Thirst After Righteousness
God will fill the hungry because of those sweet relations he stands unto them—they are his children. We cannot deny our children when they are hungry. We will rather spare it from our own selves (Luke 11:13). When he who is born of God shall come and say, 'Father, I hunger, give me Christ! Father, … Continue reading Those Who Hunger & Thirst After Righteousness
This 'kingdom characteristic' of meekness is the clue to so much that God does in our lives, yet we too rarely recognise it. He wants us to be meek. But first he may have to break our pride, destroy our sense of self-sufficiency and humble us under his mighty hand before he uses us for … Continue reading One More On the Meek
Let us for a few moments consider this idea of the Christian hope and the significance the apostle ascribes to it for the practice of religion. In the first place, we notice that the hope of which the text speaks is not a general sort of hopefulness, it's the expectation of future blessedness in an … Continue reading More On the Meek
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