| Devotional | OINTMENT POURED FORTH
Song 1:3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name [is as] ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
Does this not instantly bring to our minds Mary and her alabaster box of ointment, the fragrance of which has come down to us through the centuries? Is the name of Christ as precious ointment upon us? Do others rec ...read |
| Devotional | One Lord
"One Lord, one faith, one baptism.." Ephesians. 4:5
The apostle is stating in this and the succeeding verses a great truth concerning the church. There is a sevenfold unity. One body -composed of believers. One Spirit -the Holy Spirit who dwells within every believer and unites them together in the common bond. One hope -the blessed hope o ...read |
| Devotional | ONE SHEPHERD
John 10:16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, [and] one shepherd.
Israel had a limited view of our Christ. They were wrapped up in themselves. Selfish, narrow in their vision of the Mesiah that was to come, they were without compassion, as we ...read |
| Devotional | ONE SON, HIS WELL BELOVED
Mark 12:6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
The Savior is in Jerusalem. The chief priests and scribes come to Him and question His authority. Jesus answers them in the parable of the vineyard, picturing to them the treatment of the servants who were sent to gat ...read |
| Devotional | OUR BROTHER
Mark 3:35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
If this is true, and it is, then the reverse is also true, and He is OUR Brother. The picture is given in the 34th verse: "There came then His brethren and His mother, and, standing without, sent unto Him, calling Him *** And He looked round ...read |
| Devotional | Our Hope
"Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Savior, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope." 1 Timothy 1;1
He is "our Hope." His promises assure us and fix our faith upon Him. He is the center of the life of a true believer. We could not think of the coming glory without eyes fixed upon Him. The incentive of a loya ...read |
| Devotional | Our Intercessor
"Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." Hebrews 7:25
He saves to the fullest extent for He ever liveth and He ever represents us and meets all the charges against us. "And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercess ...read |
| Devotional | Our Keeper
"While I was with them in the world I kept them in Thy name; those that Thou gavest Me I have kept." John 17:12
This prayer on the night before His crucifixion is one of sacred sweetness and comfort. While He was here He guarded and kept His own. Now He is in the glory and still guards and keeps us. The enemy, Satan, who captured and contr ...read |
| Devotional | OUR LAWGIVER
Isai 33:22 For the LORD [is] our judge, the LORD [is] our lawgiver, the LORD [is] our king; he will save us. {lawgiver: Heb. statutemaker}
Truly, the Lord is "Our Lawgiver" for He is the Author of all Law. He made the first Law: "In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die," --- a simple, definite Law. When Adam and Eve vio ...read |
| Devotional | Our Passover
"Purge out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us." 1 Cor. 5:7
The Jews had their Passover which commemorated their fight from Egypt which God accomplished with a high hand and a stretched out arm. It was a foretaste of our Passover -a Lamb without blem ...read |
| Devotional | Our Peace
"For He is our Peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us." Ephesians. 2:14
"He is our Peace." Thank God, we have everything in Him. In the poor, old world, we have tribulations, trials, disappointments, sorrows of all kinds, but there never will be a time when we may not pillow our heads ...read |
| Devotional | OUR POTTER
Isai 64:8 But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand.
It is a good thing to commit a verse such as this to memory, for we need a deeper consciousness of our own insignificance and of our absolute dependence upon the Lord. Paul says: "Hath not the Potter power over th ...read |
| Devotional | PHYSICIAN
Luke 4:23 And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
Our Lord had been in Galilee. His fame had spread throughout that region. He had wrought mighty miracles. He comes back home to Nazareth where He had been brought up, and ...read |
| Devotional | RABBI
John 1:49 Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.
"Rabbi" means "teacher" ["master"] and is used seven times in the New Testament. Nathanael recognized Christ as a teacher and He was --- the greatest Teacher that ever Lived! A careful study of the four Gospels with a view to l ...read |
| Devotional | Redemption
"But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us...redemption" 1 Cor. 1:30
What an awful thing is sin, and "coming short of the glory of God" is sin. How can any sensible person ever conceive of the possiblilty of a soul living with God with a sinful nature? The grace of God is wonderful. He loved us. He gave His Son for ou ...read |
| Devotional | Righteousness
"But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us...righteousness." 1 Cor. 1:30
Righteousness is "rightness." We were all wrong and always wrong, but in Him we are made right. All of our righteousness was as filthy rags. There was nothing in us that would commend us to God and never could be. We are made sinless, in Him, for ...read |
| Devotional | RULER IN ISRAEL
Mica 5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, [though] thou be little among the thousands of Judah, [yet] out of thee shall he come forth unto me [that is] to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth [have been] from of old, from everlasting. {everlasting: Heb. the days of eternity}
The ages past and the ages to come are linked in Him. He always has ...read |
| Devotional | Sanctification
"But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us...sanctification." 1 Cor. 1:30
To be "sanctified" is to be "separated" -"set apart." We could never be sanctified by our own efforts, for we are absolutely helpless save as He becomes all things to us. We are in Christ Jesus and what He is, we are, and what He has, we sha ...read |
| Devotional | Separate from Sinners
"For such an high priest became us who is...separate form sinners." Hebrews 7:26
We use this as a title (or attribute) of our Lord because preachers and teachers are drifting so far away from the belief in the Virgin Birth of Our Lord, denying that He was God manifest in the flesh, and lining up with the Unitarian belief. But remember the ...read |
| Devotional | SHILOH ("PEACEMAKER")
Gene 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him [shall] the gathering of the people [be].
Here is another wonderful prophecy. "Shiloh" means "peace", and "Our Peace" is another title given to our Lord. He is the Peacemaker and there is not and can not be peace am ...read |
