Gems from March 25-26, 2005
March 25
"And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive." (Matthew 21:22)
Let but faith address the mercy-seat, and the most astounding results will follow. "If ye shall ask anything in my name I will do it." Oh! we have but little idea of what our God would do for us did we only honour Him. (C.H. Mackintosh)
N.J. Hiebert # 2199
March 26
"Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 18:3)
How entirely has Christendom refused to lean this lesson of "the little child"! She has consented to forget that it was a poor despised Galilean, a carpenter's Son, that suffered the death of the cross. . . . He did not go to Calvary from kings' courts, or amid the acclamations of the world; but He was the rejected One . . . "a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people." (Psalm 22:6) Christendom . . . may boast of Calvary and of the Lamb of God in a certain way, but it has entirely lost sight of Nazareth and of the carpenter's Son. It links the palace with the cross, greatness in the world, wealth and ease with the confession of Jesus and of the gospel. (J.G. Bellett)
N.J. Hiebert # 2200
