Bible Gems

March 19 Divine Possibilities - Part 1 “To know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:19) O Lord! Thy rich, Thy boundless love no thought can reach, no tongue declare; Oh give our hearts its depths to prove, and reign without a rival there. From Thee, O Lord, we all receive,  Thine, wholly Thine, alone we’d live.   ( Gerhardt ) “ Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ ” ( 1 John 1:3 ).    Fellowship with the Father is to be filled with His thoughts,  His desires, His objects and His affections. It is also so with fellowship with the Son. . . .  It is our privilege to be taken out of ourselves altogether— to be lost in the affections and aims of the Father and the Son! . . . Self disappears before such a blessed possibility. Shall I cling to my own thoughts and purposes when I may be occupied  with...

March 10 “That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being  made  conformable unto His death.” (Philippians 3:10) No one could excel Saul of Tarsus. He was a Jew, of pure pedigree, in orderly fellowship,  of blameless walk, of fervid zeal and unflinching devotedness. He was, on principle, a persecutor of the Church. As a Jew, he could not but see that the very foundations of  Judaism were assailed by the new economy of the Church of God. It was utterly impossible that Judaism and Christianity  could subsist on the same platform, or hold sway over the same mind. One special feature of the former system was the strict separation of Jew and Gentile; a special feature of the latter was the intimate union of of both in one body. Judaism erected and maintained the middle wall of partition; Christianity abolished that wall altogether. Hence Saul, as an earnest Jew, could n...

“Unite my heart to fear Thy name, I will praise Thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart.”  (Psalm 86:11-12) It is not to the one who works most, nor to the one who reads most, that the Lord confides His mind, but to the one who  loves   Him most (as Mary Magdalene). It is only near Himself that the human mind is so in abeyance that His mind is in the ascendant. ( Footprints for Pilgrims ) N.J. Hiebert - 6541 “ One thing have I desired . . . to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in His temple.” (Psalm 27:4) - We are not to rejoice so much in the deliverances when they come as in the One who delivers us. - The deeper the sense of the state from which we have been delivered the more absorbingly intense our affection for the Deliverer. - Intellectual conviction is always powerless, it occupies itself with the truth, and never leads to Christ Himself. - A heart possessed of Christ is fortified against the most seductive...