August 19 – Evening
“Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.” Psalm 31:4 Our spiritual foes are of the serpent’s brood, and seek to ensnare us by subtlety. The prayer before us supposes …
Category: Devotional
August 19 – Morning
“He shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord.” Micah 5:4 Christ’s reign in his Church is that of a shepherd-king. He has supremacy, but it is the superiority of a wise and tender shepherd over his needy …
August 18 – Evening
“And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.” Mark 15:23 A golden truth is couched in the fact that the Saviour put the myrrhed wine-cup from his lips. On the heights of heaven …
August 18 – Morning
“Strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.” Jeremiah 51:51 In this account the faces of the Lord’s people were covered with shame, for it was a terrible thing that men should intrude into the Holy Place reserved …
August 17 – Evening
“This sickness is not unto death.” John 11:4 From our Lord’s words we learn that there is a limit to sickness. Here is an “unto” within which its ultimate end is restrained, and beyond which it cannot go. Lazarus might …