1 Peter 3:15

1 Peter 3:15 (NIV). 

But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. 

Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, .......... 

Thoughts on This Verse... 

How do we effectively share our faith, especially in situations hostile to faith? 

First, we consciously submit our hearts to Christ as Lord. 

Second, we prepare a presentation of faith that focuses on the hope we have in Jesus. 

Finally, when we share our reason for hope, we do it with respect, gently sharing our faith with others. 

Of course we would never have an opportunity to share our faith if we don't live a life of faith that makes an impact on those around us.

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"And they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall."

"And they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall."—Nehemiah 3:8.

CITIES well fortified have broad walls, and so had Jerusalem in her glory. 


The New Jerusalem must, in like manner, be surrounded and preserved by a broad wall of nonconformity to the world, and separation from its customs and spirit. 


The tendency of these days break down the holy barrier, and make the distinction between the church and the world merely nominal. 


Professors are no longer strict and Puritanical, questionable literature is read on all hands, frivolous pastimes are currently indulged, and a general laxity threatens to deprive the Lord's peculiar people of those sacred singularities which separate them from sinners.


 It will be an ill day for the church and the world when the proposed amalgamation shall be complete, and the sons of God and the daughters of men shall be as one: 
then shall another deluge of wrath be ushered in.


 Beloved reader, be it your aim in heart, in word, in dress, in action to maintain the broad wall, remembering that the friendship of this world is enmity against God.

The broad wall afforded a pleasant place of resort for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, 
from which they could command prospects of the surrounding country. 


This reminds us of the Lord's exceeding broad commandments, in which we walk at liberty in communion with Jesus, overlooking the scenes of earth, and looking out towards the glories of heaven. 


Separated from the world, and denying ourselves all ungodliness and fleshly lusts, we are nevertheless not in prison, nor restricted within narrow bounds; nay, 
we walk at liberty, because we keep His precepts.


 Come, reader, this evening walk with God in His statutes. 
As friend met friend upon the city wall, so meet thou 
thy God in the way of holy prayer and meditation. 


The bulwarks of salvation thou hast a right to traverse, 
for thou art a freeman of the royal burgh, a citizen of the metropolis of the universe.

Meditation

C. H. Spurgeon

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1 Corinthians 13:6.....

1 Corinthians 13:6 (NIV). 

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth....... 

Thoughts on This Verse... 

Love does have its delights. One of those delights is in what is authentic and genuine -- TRUTH! So as Jesus' disciples, we are not deceitful, manipulative, or coercive in our relationships. 

Instead, we are transparent, intimate, and honest. 

Why? Because true love delights in truth.

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Thou art my strength !!!

"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, a and seek to ensnare us by subtlety. 

The prayer before us supposes the possibility of the believer being caught like a bird. 

So deftly does the fowler do his work, that simple ones are soon surrounded by the net. 

The text asks that even out of Satan's meshes the captive one may be delivered; this is a proper petition, and one which can be granted: from between the jaws of the lion, 

and out of the belly of hell, can eternal love rescue the saint.

 It may need a sharp pull to save a soul from the net of temptations, and a mighty pull to extricate a man from the snares of malicious cunning, but the Lord is equal to every emergency, and the most skilfully placed nets of the hunter shall never be able to hold His chosen ones. 

Woe unto those who are so clever at net laying; they who tempt others

 shall be destroyed themselves.

"For Thou art my strength."

 What an inexpressible sweetness is to be found in these few words! 

How joyfully may we encounter toils, and how cheerfully may we endure sufferings, when we can lay hold upon celestial strength. 

Divine power will rend asunder all the toils of our enemies, confound their politics, and frustrate their knavish tricks; he is a happy man who has such matchless might engaged upon his side.

 Our own strength would be of little service when embarrassed in the nets of base cunning, but the Lord's strength is ever available; we have but to invoke it, and we shall find it near at hand. 

If by faith we are depending alone upon the strength of the mighty God of Israel, we may

 use our holy reliance as a plea in supplication.

"Lord, evermore Thy face we seek: Tempted we are, and poor, and weak; Keep us with lowly hearts, and meek. 

Let us not fall. Let us not fall."

Meditation

C. H. Spurgeon

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Romans 8:35-37

Romans 8:35-37 (NIV). 

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ... 

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.......

 Thoughts on This Verse... 

''More than conquerors.''

What a great phrase. 

In Christ, this is who we are:''more than conquerors.'' No hardship, enemy, physical disaster, not even death, can separate us from Jesus. 

Once our lives are joined to Jesus, our future is tied to him (Col. 3:1-4).

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"And they gave Him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but He received it not."

"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 the Son of God stood of old, 

and as He looked down upon our globe 

He measured the long descent to the utmost 

depths of human misery; 

He cast up the sum total of all the agonies which expiation would require, and abated not a jot.

 He solemnly determined that to offer a sufficient atoning sacrifice He must go the whole way, from the highest to the lowest, from the throne of highest glory to the cross of deepest woe. 

This myrrhed cup, with its soporific influence, would have stayed Him within a little of the utmost limit of misery, therefore He refused it. 

He would not stop short of all He had undertaken to suffer for His people. Ah, how many of us have pined after reliefs to our grief which would have been injurious to us! Reader, did you never pray for a discharge from hard service or suffering with a petulant and willful eagerness? 

Providence has taken from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke.

 Say, Christian, if it had been said, "If you so desire it, that loved one of yours shall live, but God will be dishonored," could you have put away the temptation, and said, "Thy will be done"? 

Oh, it is sweet to be able to say, "My Lord, if for other reasons I need not suffer, 

yet if I can honour Thee more by suffering, and if the loss of my earthly all will bring 

Thee glory, then so let it be.

 I refuse the comfort, if it comes in the way of Thine honour."

 O that we thus walked more in the footsteps of our Lord, cheerfully enduring trial for His sake, promptly and willingly putting away the thought of self and comfort when it would interfere with our finishing the work which He has given us to do. 

Great grace is needed, but great grace is provided.

Meditation

C. H. Spurgeon

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Galatians 3:26-27

Galatians 3:26-27 (NIV).

You are all sons of God 

through faith in Christ Jesus, 

for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ....... 

˜Thoughts on This Verse... 

We are children of God, with all the rights of full heirs! Our faith, expressed in our baptism, declares to the world that we are God's children. 

We have chosen to be clothed in Christ and his righteousness and not depend on earning our own salvation.

 He is our salvation and hope. 

He is our life and strength. 

He is our older brother and Savior. 

He is our Lord.

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"This sickness is not unto death"

"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 pass through death, but death was not to be the ultimatum of his sickness.
 In all sickness, the Lord saith to the waves of pain, "Hitherto shall ye go, but no further." 


His fixed purpose is not the destruction, but the instruction of His people. 
Wisdom hangs up the thermometer at the furnace mouth, and regulates the heat.

1. The limit is encouragingly comprehensive. 
The God of providence has limited the time, manner, intensity, repetition, and effects of all our sicknesses; each throb is decreed, each sleepless hour predestinated, 
each relapse ordained, each depression of spirit foreknown,
 and each sanctifying result eternally purposed. 
Nothing great or small escapes the ordaining hand of Him who numbers the hairs of our head.

2. This limit is wisely adjusted
 to our strength, to the end designed, and to the grace apportioned. Affliction comes not at haphazard—the weight of every stroke of the rod is accurately measured.
 He who made no mistakes in balancing the clouds and meting out the heavens, commits no errors in measuring out the ingredients which compose the medicine of souls.
 We cannot suffer too much nor be relieved too late.

3. The limit is tenderly appointed. 
The knife of the heavenly Surgeon never cuts deeper than is absolutely necessary. 
"He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men."
 A mother's heart cries, "Spare my child"; but no mother is more compassionate than our gracious God.
 When we consider how hard-mouthed we are, it is a wonder that we are not driven with a sharper bit. 


The thought is full of consolation, that He who has fixed the bounds of our habitation, 
has also fixed the bounds of our tribulation.

Meditation

C. H. Spurgeon

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FAITH !!!...........

Galatians 5:6 (NIV). For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love....... 

Thoughts on This Verse... 

Ever notice how we get to fussing about things that are important, but still aren't the most important things of our faith? So often, when we get to fighting, the most important thing of all gets lost.

In the first century, this fight often had to do with Jew/Gentile issues. 

While race, culture, and heritage are important, what really is most important is faith expressing itself through love. 

In our high tech world today, isn't it interesting that the most important issue is the same as it was two thousand years ago -- faith expressing itself through love?

no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.

John 3:3 (NIV). In reply Jesus declared, 

''I tell you the truth, no one can see 

the kingdom of God unless he is born again.''......

Thoughts on This Verse...

''Fast away the old year passes ...'' 

But we can be new and fresh and clean (cf. 2 Cor. 4:17). Kingdom people are those who have been 

born fresh and new through the power of the Spirit and the grace of God (cf. John 3:3-7; Titus 3:3-7; John 1:11). So as we live life, with its good things and bad, achievements and failures, successes and disappointments, let's approach each day as Kingdom people. 

God's mercies are new every morning and our lives can be made new every day by the Holy Spirit who lives in us. 

Yes, we have been born again. But each sunrise offers us the opportunity 

to be made new, to live in a fresh new way, 

as God's grace rekindles our hopes and the Holy Spirit makes us new as we trust in Jesus our Lord.

"Ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit."

 "Ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit."—Romans 8:23.


PRESENT possession is declared. 
At this present moment we have the first fruits of the Spirit. 


We have repentance, that gem of the first water; faith, that priceless pearl; hope, the heavenly emerald; and love, the glorious ruby. 


We are already made "new creatures in Christ Jesus," 
by the effectual working of God the Holy Ghost. 


This is called the firstfruit because it comes first. As the wave-sheaf was the first of the harvest, so the spiritual life, and all the graces which adorn that life, are the first operations of the Spirit of God in our souls.


 The firstfruits were the pledge of the harvest. As soon as the Israelite had plucked the first handful of ripe ears, he looked forward with glad anticipation to the time when the wain should creak beneath the sheaves. 


So, brethren, when God gives us things which are pure, lovely, and of good report, as the work of the Holy Spirit, these are to us the prognostics of the coming glory.


 The firstfruits were always holy to the Lord, and our new nature, 
with all its powers, is a consecrated thing. 


The new life is not ours that we should ascribe its excellence to our own merit; it is Christ's image and creation, and is ordained for His glory. 


But the firstfruits were not the harvest, and the works of the Spirit in us at this moment are not the consummation—the perfection is yet to come. 


We must not boast that we have attained, and so reckon the wave-sheaf to be all the produce of the year: we must hunger and thirst after righteousness, and pant for the day of full redemption. 


Dear reader, this evening open your mouth wide, and God will fill it. 
Let the boon in present possession excite in you a sacred avarice for more grace. 


Groan within yourself for higher degrees of consecration, and your Lord will grant them to you, for He is able to do exceeding abundantly above what we ask or even think.

Meditation

C. H. Spurgeon

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"And I will give you an heart of flesh."

"And I will give you an heart of flesh."—Ezekiel 36:26.

 A heart of flesh is known by its tenderness concerning sin. 

To have indulged a foul imagination, or to have allowed a wild desire to tarry even for a moment, is quite enough to make a heart of flesh grieve before the Lord. 

The heart of stone calls a great iniquity nothing, but not so the heart of flesh.

"If to the right or left I stray,
That moment, Lord, reprove;
And let me weep my life away,
For having grieved thy love"

The heart of flesh is tender of God's will. 

My Lord Will-be-will is a great blusterer, and it is hard to subject him to God's will; but when the heart of flesh is given, the will quivers like an aspen leaf in every breath of heaven, and bows like an osier in every breeze of God's Spirit. 

The natural will is cold, hard iron, which is not to be hammered into form, but the renewed will, like molten metal, is soon moulded by the hand of grace. 

In the fleshy heart there is a tenderness of the affections.

 The hard heart does not love the Redeemer, but the renewed heart burns with affection towards Him. 

The hard heart is selfish and coldly demands, "Why should I weep for sin? Why should I love the Lord?" But the heart of flesh says; "Lord, Thou knowest that I love Thee; help me to love Thee more!"

 Many are the privileges of this renewed heart; "'Tis here the Spirit dwells, 'tis here that Jesus rests."

 It is fitted to receive every spiritual blessing, and every blessing comes to it.

 It is prepared to yield every heavenly fruit to the honour and praise of God, 

and therefore the Lord delights in it. 

A tender heart is the best defence against sin, and the best preparation for heaven.

 A renewed heart stands on its watchtower looking for the coming of the Lord Jesus. 

Have you this heart of flesh? 

Meditation

C. H. Spurgeon

"I know their sorrows."—Exodus 3:7.

THE child is cheered as he sings, "This my father knows"; 

and shall not we be comforted as we discern that our dear Friend and tender soul-husband knows all about us?

1. He is the Physician, and if He knows all, there is no need that the patient should know. Hush, thou silly, fluttering heart, prying, peeping, and suspecting! What thou knowest not now, thou shalt know hereafter, and meanwhile Jesus, the beloved Physician, knows thy soul in adversities. 

Why need the patient analyze all the medicine, or estimate all the symptoms? This is the Physician's work, not mine; it is my business to trust, and His to prescribe. 

If He shall write His prescription in uncouth characters which I cannot read, I will not be uneasy on that account, but rely upon His unfailing skill to make all plain in the result, however mysterious in the working.

2. He is the Master, and His knowledge is to serve us instead of our own; 

we are to obey, not to judge: "The servant knoweth not what his lord doeth." 

Shall the architect explain his plans to every hodman on the works? 

If he knows his own intent, is it not enough? The vessel on the wheel cannot guess to what pattern it shall be conformed, but if the potter understands his art, what matters the ignorance of the clay? 

My Lord must not be cross-questioned any more by one so ignorant as I am.

3. He is the Head. All understanding centres there. 

What judgment has the arm? What comprehension has the foot? All the power to know lies in the head. 

Why should the member have a brain of its own when the head fulfils for it every intellectual office? Here, then, must the believer rest his comfort in sickness, not that he himself can see the end, but that Jesus knows all. 

Sweet Lord, be thou for ever eye, and soul, and head for us, and let us be content to know only what Thou choosest to reveal.

C. H. Spurgeon