The natural man deems it objectionable that God would justify the ungodly (1) who simply believe in Christ (2). Often, we as believers in Christ, who have had His light sine into our hearts, begin to subtly object to the glory of that grace and to lean on our own...

We must let our words on earth, about every subject, be very, very few! Let us carefully examine the biblical view of how to properly evaluate situations. II Corinthians 3:5, according to the Kenneth Wuest translation, reads “And not that we are sufficient in ourselves to evaluate anything…” This principle...

God has a purpose for our lives. It is designed only to bless. He wants to promote us in His Kingdom as we get to know Him through situations. He has a perfect provision for everything we go through. In Psalm 138:8, God promises “to perfect that which concerns me…”...

The eagle described in Isaiah 40:31 is a very important illustration. The eagle makes its nest in inaccessible places. It dwells in the cliffs (2). Proverbs 30:19 states that his way is in the air. It flies without effort and soars without exerting any energy at all. The eagle is...

“Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth” (Psalm 46:10). Think about the fast pace of our society today and the tendency toward loud music, and continuous noise. How does this compare with the nature of...

Having no actual word for “emotions” in the Old Testament Hebrew, metonyms were used to express this concept as we know it today. Some examples are the words “bowels,” “kidneys,” and “reins.” One such usage is in I Kings 3:26: “For her bowels yearned upon her son.” The emotions are...

The simplest and yet most profound principle in the Bible is the doctrine of free volition. It is said that no king who rules over a country is as important as the person who rules over his own spirit. “He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty;...

The Apostle Paul knew he was nothing in himself, but by the grace of God he knew he had something great to offer people. “Although I am less than the least of all of God’s people, this grace was given me; to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of...

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord” (Isaiah 55:8). How can we have God’s mind in each decision that we make during the day? It is so important that the foundation or motivation for our decisions is pure. “A good tree...

Paul writes in Romans 8:24a, “For we are saved by hope,” meaning we have been saved into a realm of absolute confidence of a certain glorious destiny (2). It is this very hope that characterizes the household of God that is made up of all who have trusted Christ as...