Gems for the Week
January 3 - 9
"Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His name.
(Malachi 3:16)
Whenever we speak to one another of Christ He will always be one of the company. Do our hearts long for His presence? Then let us speak together of Him more. (Edward Dennett)
N.J. Hiebert # 2846
"The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the
Son of man hath not where to lay His head." (Matthew 8:20)
The Lord Jesus began in a manger and ended on the cross, and along the way He had not where to lay His head. (J.N. Darby)
N.J. Hiebert # 2847
"Their sins and iniquities will I remember no more." (Hebrews 10:17)
No sin the believer brings to God but when it comes to be weighed is not outweighed by the blood. (G.V. Wigram)
N.J. Hiebert # 2848
"Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him." (Proverbs 26:12)
Of all fools the conceited fool is the worst. Pride makes a man incapable of receiving counsel.
(William Gurnall - The Christian in Complete Armour) (1616-1679)
N.J. Hiebert # 2849
"I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being." (Psalms 104:33)
A little boy was watching the birds in a field. At length a little songster perched itself on the limb of a tree. As the boy prepared to throw a stone, the little bird began to sing.
Slowly the boy dropped the stone. He listened till the song had ceased, and watched the bird fly away.
"Why did you not stone him?" asked a gentleman.
"Couldn't," was the brief reply. "couldn't, cos he sung so."
Thus the enemy of our soul is on the lookout to fire some poisonous dart of doubt or fear. Sing, sing in the warfare. The trial may be fiery, the march may seem long; let the glory in your soul sing His praise. The devil will flee. He does not like songs of praise. The joy of the Lord is excellent equipment for the conflict.
Uncertainty is unfavourable to song. (Travelling Toward Sunrise)
N.J. Hiebert # 2850
"As far as the east is from the west,
so far hath He removed our transgressions from us."
(Psalms 103:12)
Not some of them; He takes them all away. You may pile up your sins till they rise like a dark mountain, and then multiply them by ten thousand for those you cannot think of; and after you have tried to enumerate all the sins you have ever committed, just let me bring one verse in, and that mountain will melt away: "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin." (1 John 1:7) (D.L. Moody)
N.J. Hiebert # 2851
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!"
(Romans 11:33)
I thank God there is a height in the Bible I do not know anything about, a depth I have never been able to fathom, and it makes the Book all the more fascinating. If I could take that Book up and read it as I can any other book and understand it at one reading, I should have lost faith in it years ago. it is one of the strongest proofs that it must have come from God, that the acutest men who have dug for fifty years have laid down their pens and said, "There is a depth we know nothing of." "No Scripture," said Spurgeon, "is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom, not only double, but sevenfold: they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance." (Selected)
N.J. Hiebert # 2852
