Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding…

  • More On Those Who Hunger & Thirst After Righteousness

    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 Read more

  • 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, Read more

  • Matthew Henry Monday

    From his Method for Prayer… I thank you for the crown of life which God has promised to those who love him; James 1:12 (ESV) the inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for me. 1 Peter 1:4 (ESV) That having here no lasting city, Hebrews 13:14 (ESV) I am encouraged to seek the better country, that is, the Read more

  • One More On the Meek

    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 Read more

  • 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 Read more