Bible Gems

August 21 “For ye are bought with a price:  therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” (1 Corinthians 6:20) Religions are concerned with sins. The Bible deals with  sin . Our Lord bore the sin of the world by identification, taking it upon Himself as if it were  His own, not in sympathy. And because God had to be true to His words, Jesus had to bear the punishment for sin: death on the cross. “ Ye are bought with a price. " ( Corrie Ten Boom ) N.J. Hiebert - 6352 August 22 “Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom & might are His.” (Daniel 2:20) All error has a particle of truth in it, and that is why it is so dangerous. “ Wisdom and might are His ." A simple utterance, but how profound! For if wisdom and might are God’s, they are nowhere else to be found, and it is in vain to turn for them to any but God. Philanthropy has  man  for its object,...

August 9 “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,  may be able to comprehend  with all saints what is the breadth, and length,  and depth, and height; and to  know the love of Christ,  which passeth knowledge , that ye might be filled  with all the fulness of God.”   (Ephesians 3:17-19) "A little child was playing by the shore of the broad blue sea, And oft he looked away across the waves, so wonderingly: It was a new entrancing sight to him, that watery waste, The tossing billows breaking on the sands with foam-wreaths graced; And often in his distant inland home, with childish glee, The boy would say to young and older friends: ‘I’ve seen the sea!’   And so he had; the child made no mistake, his words were true; But yet, how much of ocean’s vast expanse had met his view? Only the waves that rippled on the shore; while far away The broad Atlantic in its depth and str...

"When Pharaoh drew nigh, the childen of Israel lifted up their eyes, and,  behold,  the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid:  and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD."   (Exodus 14:10) Wouldn’t you be?    After all they were trapped.  All of them. The Egyptians-looking for vengeance, were behind them-the entire army! And the Israelites had no forces to protect themselves or oppose the enemy. They had nowhere to go! And yet the Lord had described the situation exactly to Moses beforehand (vv. 2-4). with the explanation that He intended to demonstrate His invincible power. So they, as we today, had nothing to do but to  “ Stand still and see the salvation  of the Lord ” ( v. 13 ).   ( G.W. Seale ) As we travel through life’s shadowed valley, fresh springs of His love ever rise, And we learn that our sorrow and losses are blessings just sent in disguise. ( —Anon ) N...