Serve the Lord with gladness. Psalm 100:2 Delight in divine service is a token of acceptance. Those who serve God with a sad countenance, because they do what is unpleasant to them, are not servin

I will be their God. Jeremiah 31:33 Christian! Here is all thou canst require. To make thee happy thou wantest something that shall satisfy thee; and is not this enough? If thou canst pour this pr

Thy love is better than wine. Song of Solomon 1:2 Nothing gives the believer so much joy as fellowship with Christ. He has enjoyment as others have in the common mercies of life, he can be glad bo

The iniquity of the holy things. Exodus 28:38 What a veil is lifted up by these words, and what a disclosure is made! It will be humbling and profitable for us to pause awhile and see this sad sig

My sister, my spouse. Song of Solomon 4:12 Observe the sweet titles with which the heavenly Solomon with intense affection addresses His bride the church. My sister, one near to me by ties of nat

For me to live is Christ. Philippians 1:21 The believer did not always live to Christ. He began to do so when God the Holy Spirit convinced him of sin, and when by grace he was brought to see the

Now the hand of the Lord was upon me in the evening. Ezekiel 33:22 In the way of judgment this may be the case, and, if so, be it mine to consider the reason of such a visitation, and bear the rod

Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you. 1 Peter 5:7 It is a happy way of soothing sorrow when we can feel HE careth for me. Christian! do not dishonour religion by always wearin

And God saw the light. Genesis 1:4 This morning we noticed the goodness of the light, and the Lords dividing it from the darkness, we now note the special eye which the Lord had for the light. G

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. Genesis 1:4 Light might well be good since it sprang from that fiat of goodness, Let there be light. We who