"Evening wolves."

"Evening wolves."—Habakkuk 1:8.

WHILE preparing the present volume, this particular expression recurred to me so frequently, that in order to be rid of its constant importunity I determined to give a page to it. 

The evening wolf, infuriated by a day of hunger, 

was fiercer and more ravenous than he would have been in the morning. 

May not the furious creature represent our doubts and fears after a day of distraction of mind, losses in business, and perhaps ungenerous tauntings from our fellow men? 

How our thoughts howl in our ears, 

"Where is now thy God?" 

How voracious and greedy they are, swallowing up all suggestions of comfort, 

and remaining as hungry as before. 

Great Shepherd, slay these evening wolves, 

and bid Thy sheep lie down in green pastures, undisturbed by insatiable unbelief. 

How like are the fiends of hell to evening wolves, for when the flock of Christ are in a cloudy and dark day, and their sun seems going down, they hasten to tear and to devour. 

They will scarcely attack the Christian in the daylight of faith,

 but in the gloom of soul conflict they fall upon him. 

O Thou who hast laid down Thy life for the sheep, preserve them from the fangs of the wolf.

False teachers who craftily and industriously hunt for the precious life, 

devouring men by their false-hoods, 

are as dangerous and detestable as evening wolves. 

Darkness is their element, deceit is their character, destruction is their end.

 We are most in danger from them when they wear the sheep's skin. Blessed is he who is kept from them, for thousands are made the prey of grievous wolves that enter within the fold of the church.

What a wonder of grace it is when fierce persecutors are converted, for then the wolf dwells with the lamb, and men of cruel ungovernable dispositions become gentle and teachable. 

O Lord, convert many such: for such we will pray to-night.

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Coming In; Going Out.

Coming In; Going Out

Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. (Deuteronomy 28:6)

The blessings of the law are not canceled.

 Jesus confirmed the promise when He bore the penalty.

 If I keep the commands of my Lord, I may appropriate this promise without question.

This day I will come in to my house without fear of evil tidings, 

and I will come in to my closet expecting to hear good news from my Lord.

 I will not be afraid to come in unto myself by self-examination, 

nor to come in to my affairs by a diligent inspection of my business.

 I have a good deal of work to do indoors, within my own soul; oh, for a blessing upon it all, 

the blessing of the Lord Jesus, who has promised to abide with me.

I must also go out. 

Timidity makes me wish that I could stay within doors and never go into the sinful world again. 

But I must go out in my calling, 

and I must go out that I may be helpful to my brethren and useful to the ungodly.

 I must be a defender of the faith and an assailant of evil. 

Oh, for a blessing upon my going out this day! Lord, let me go where Thou leadest, on Thy errands, under Thy command, and in the power of Thy Spirit.

Lord Jesus, turn in with me and be my guest; 

and then walk out with me and cause my heart to burn while You speak with me by the way.

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I saw four and twenty elders sitting

"And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment."—Revelation 4:4.

THESE representatives of the saints in heaven are said to be around the throne.

 In the passage in Canticles, where Solomon sings of the King sitting at his table, 

some render it "a round table."

 From this, some expositors, I think, without straining the text, have said, 

"There is an equality among the saints." 

That idea is conveyed by the equal nearness of the four and twenty elders. 

The condition of glorified spirits in heaven is that of nearness to Christ, 

clear vision of His glory, 

constant access to His court, and familiar fellowship with His person: 

nor is there any difference in this respect between one saint and another,

 but all the people of God, apostles, martyrs, ministers, or private and obscure Christians, 

shall all be seated near the throne, where they shall for ever gaze upon their exalted Lord, 

and be satisfied with His love. 

They shall all be near to Christ, all ravished with His love, 

all eating and drinking at the same table with Him, 

all equally beloved as His favourites and friends even if not all equally rewarded as servants.

Let believers on earth imitate the saints in heaven in their nearness to Christ.

 Let us on earth be as the elders are in heaven, sitting around the throne.

 May Christ be the object of our thoughts, the centre of our lives. 

How can we endure to live at such a distance from our Beloved? 

Lord Jesus, draw us nearer to Thyself. Say unto us, 

"Abide in Me, and I in you"; 

and permit us to sing,

 "His left hand is under my head, 

and 

His right hand doth embrace me."

O lift me higher, nearer Thee, And as I rise more pure and meet, 

O let my soul's humility Make me lie lower at Thy feet; 

Less trusting self, the more I prove The blessed comfort of Thy love.

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Fear Has Its Place !!!

Fear Has Its Place

Happy is the man that feareth alway. (Proverbs 28:14)

The fear of the Lord is the beginning and the foundation of all true religion. 

Without a solemn awe and reverence of God there is no foothold for the more brilliant virtues. 

He whose soul does not worship will never live in holiness.

He is happy who feels a jealous fear of doing wrong. 

Holy fear looks not only before it leaps, but even before it moves. 

It is afraid of error, afraid of neglecting duty, afraid of committing sin. 

It fears ill company, loose talk, and questionable policy, 

This does not make a man wretched, but it brings him happiness. 

The watchful sentinel is happier than the soldier who sleeps at his post. 

He who foreseeth evil and escapes it is happier than he who walks carelessly on and is destroyed.

Fear of God is a quiet grace which leads a man along a choice road, of which it is written, 

"No lion shall be there, neither shall any ravenous beast go up thereon." 

Fear of the very appearance of evil is a purifying principle, which enables a man, through the power of the Holy Spirit, to keep his garments unspotted from the world.

 Solomon had tried both worldliness and holy fear: in the one he found vanity, 

in the other happiness. 

Let us not repeat his trial but abide by his verdict.

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The exceeding greatness of His power !!!

"The exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe according to the working of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead."—Ephesians 1:19, 20.

IN the resurrection of Christ, as in our salvation, 

there was put forth nothing short of a divine power.

 What shall we say of those who think that conversion is wrought by the free will of man, 

and is due to his own betterness of disposition? 

When we shall see the dead rise from the grave by their own power, 

then may we expect to see ungodly sinners of their own free will turning to Christ.

 It is not the word preached, nor the word read in itself; 

all quickening power proceeds from the Holy Ghost. 

This power was irresistible.

 All the soldiers and the high priests could not keep the body of Christ in the tomb; 

Death himself could not hold Jesus in his bonds: 

even thus irresistible is the power put forth in the believer when he is raised to newness of life.

 No sin, no corruption, no devils in hell nor sinners upon earth, can stay the hand of God's grace when it intends to convert a man.

 If God omnipotently says, "Thou shalt," man shall not say, "I will not." 

Observe that the power which raised Christ from the dead was glorious.

 It reflected honour upon God and wrought dismay in the hosts of evil.

 So there is great glory to God in the conversion of every sinner. 

It was everlasting power."Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more;

 death hath no more dominion over Him." 

So we, being raised from the dead, go not back to our dead works nor to our old corruptions, 

but we live unto God.

 "Because He lives we live also."

 "For we are dead, and our life is hid with Christ in God." 

"Like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, 

even so we also should walk in newness of life." 

Lastly, in the text mark the union of the new life to Jesus. 

The same power which raised the Head works life in the members. 

What a blessing to be quickened together with Christ!

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Broken and Smoking !!!

Broken and Smoking

A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench. (Isaiah 42:3)

Then I may reckon upon tender treatment from my Lord. 

Indeed, I feel myself to be at best as weak, as pliant, as worthless as a reed. 

Someone said, "I don't care a rush for you"; and the speech, though unkind, was not untrue. Alas! I am worse than a reed when it grows by the river, for that at least can hold up its head.

 I am bruised—sorely, sadly bruised. 

There is no music in me now; there is a rift which lets out all the melody. 

Ah, me! Yet Jesus will not break me; and if He will not, then I mind little what others try to do. 

O sweet and compassionate Lord, I nestle down beneath Thy protection and forget my bruises!

Truly I am also fit to be likened to "the smoking flax," 

whose light is gone, and only its smoke remains.

 I fear I am rather a nuisance than a benefit. 

My fears tell me that the devil has blown out my light and left me an obnoxious smoke, and that my Lord will soon put an extinguisher upon one. 

Yet I perceive that though there were snuffers under the law, there were no extinguishers, and Jesus will not quench me; therefore, I am hopeful.

 Lord, kindle me anew and cause me to shine forth to Thy glory and to the extolling of Thy tenderness.

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Romans 8:38-39 For I am convinced !!!

Romans 8:38-39 (NIV).
 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord....... 
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Nothing could keep Jesus from coming to save you and me -- not the distance between heaven and earth, not the difficulty of an unexpected pregnancy for his unmarried mother, not a city full of travelers and parents tired from a long journey, certainly not a maniacal king who sought to snuff out his life, not jeering mobs crying crucify him, not disciples that abandoned him, not soldiers that mocked him, not a scourge that raked his flesh, and not a cross that claimed his physical life. 

So what makes you think he would let you go or give up on you after his love has captured your heart?

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"There is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet."

"There is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet."—Jeremiah 49:23.

LITTLE know we what sorrow may be upon the sea at this moment. 

We are safe in our quiet chamber, but far away on the salt sea the hurricane may be cruelly seeking for the lives of men. 

Hear how the death fiends howl among the cordage; how every timber starts as the waves beat like battering rams upon the vessel! 

God help you, poor drenched and wearied ones! 

My prayer goes up to the great Lord of sea and land, that He will make the storm a calm, and bring you to your desired haven! Nor ought I to offer prayer alone, 

I should try to benefit those hardy men who risk their lives so constantly.

 Have I ever done anything for them? What can I do? How often does the boisterous sea swallow up the mariner! Thousands of corpses lie where pearls lie deep. 

There is death-sorrow on the sea, which is echoed in the long wail of widows and orphans. 

The salt of the sea is in many eyes of mothers and wives. 

Remorseless billows, ye have devoured the love of women, and the stay of households. 

What a resurrection shall there be from the caverns of the deep when the sea gives up her dead! 

Till then there will be sorrow on the sea. 

As if in sympathy with the woes of earth, the sea is for ever fretting along a thousand shores, wailing with a sorrowful cry like her own birds, booming with a hollow crash of unrest, 

raving with uproarious discontent, chafing with hoarse wrath, 

or jangling with the voices of ten thousand murmuring pebbles. 

The roar of the sea may be joyous to a rejoicing spirit, but to the son of sorrow the wide, wide ocean is even more forlorn than the wide, wide world. 

This is not our rest, and the restless billows tell us so. 

There is a land where there is no more sea—our faces are steadfastly set towards it; we are going to the place of which the Lord hath spoken.

 Till then, we cast our sorrows on the Lord who trod the sea of old, and who maketh a way for His people through the depths thereof.

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The Reach of Almighty Grace !!!

The Reach of Almighty Grace

It shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. (Hosea 1:10)

Sovereign grace can make strangers into sons, and the Lord here declares His purpose to deal thus with rebels and make them know what He has done.

 Beloved reader, the Lord has done this in my case; has He done the like for you? 

Then let us join hands and hearts in praising His adorable name.

Some of us were so decidedly ungodly that the Lord's Word 

most truly said to our conscience and heart,

"Ye are not my people." 

In the house of God and in our own homes, when we read the Bible, 

this was the voice of God's Spirit in our soul, 

"Ye are not my people."

 Truly a sad, condemning voice it was.

 But now, in the same places, from the same ministry and Scripture, 

we hear a voice, which saith, "Ye are the sons of the living God." 

Can we be grateful enough for this?

 Is it not wonderful? 

Does it not give us hope for others? 

Who is beyond the reach of almighty grace? 

How can we despair of any, since the Lord has wrought so marvelous a change in us?

He who has kept this one great promise will keep every other; 

wherefore, let us go forward with songs of adoration and confidence.

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"If ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law."

"If ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law."—Galatians 5:18.

WE who looks at his own character and position from a legal point of view, will not only despair when he comes to the end of his reckoning, but if he be a wise man he will despair at the beginning; for if we are to be judged on the footing of the law, 

there shall no flesh living be justified. 

How blessed to know that we dwell in the domains of grace and not of law! 

When thinking of my state before God the question is not, "Am I perfect in myself before the law?" but, "Am I perfect in Christ Jesus?" That is a very different matter. 

We need not enquire, "Am I without sin naturally?" but, "Have I been washed in the fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness?" It is not "Am I in myself well pleasing to God?" 

but it is "Am I accepted in the Beloved?" 

The Christian views his evidences from the top of Sinai, and grows alarmed concerning his salvation; it were better far if he read his title by the light of Calvary. 

"Why," saith he, "my faith has unbelief in it, it is not able to save me." Suppose he had considered the object of his faith instead of his faith, then he would have said, 

"There is no failure in Him, and therefore I am safe." 

He sighs over his hope: "Ah! my hope is marred and dimmed by an anxious carefulness about present things; how can I be accepted?" Had he regarded the ground of his hope, he would have seen that the promise of God standeth sure, and that whatever our doubts may be, 

the oath and promise never fail. 

Ah! believer, it is safer always for you to be led of the Spirit into gospel liberty than to wear legal fetters. Judge yourself at what Christ is rather than at what you are. 

Satan will try to mar your peace by reminding you of your sinfulness and imperfections: you can only meet his accusations by faithfully adhering to the gospel 

and refusing to wear the yoke of bondage.

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A Strong Heart !!!

A Strong Heart

Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord. 

(Psalm 27:14)

Wait! Wait! 

Let your waiting be on the Lord! 

He is worth waiting for. 

He never disappoints the waiting soul.

While waiting keep up your spirits, Expect a great deliverance, and be ready to praise God for it.

The promise which should cheer you is in the middle of the verse—

"He shall strengthen thine heart." 

This goes at once to the place where you need help.

 If the heart be sound, all the rest of the system will work well. 

The heart wants calming and cheering, and both of these will come if it be strengthened.

 A forceful heart rests and rejoices and throbs force into the whole man.

No one else can get at that secret urn of life, the heart, so as to pour strength into it. 

He alone who made it can make it strong. 

God is full of strength, and, therefore, He can impart it to those who need it. 

Oh, be brave; for the Lord will impart His strength to you, 

and you shall be calm in tempest and glad in sorrow.

He who penned these lines can write as David did—

"Wait, I say, on the Lord." 

I do, indeed, say it.

 I know by long and deep experience that it is good for me to wait upon the Lord.

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