Bible Gems

January 21 “Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and   lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30) “In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink.” (John 7:37) Christ, therefore, is the key to all the Bible.  He is its central Figure. It all speaks of Him Who is at once our Prophet, our Priest, and our King. We can hear His voice in the Old Testament if we read it in the light of the New. The New Testament has a richer meaning when we read it as the completion and fulfilment of the Old. It is when we see Christ in this way in all the Scriptures that the Bible becomes  to us the living voice of the the living God. In the Old Testament, the New lies hid; in the New Testament the Old li...

January 11 “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.” (John 6:37) Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord to Thee. “Take my life!” We have said it or sung it before the Lord, it may be many times; but if it were only once whispered in His ear with full purpose of heart, should we not believe that He heard it?  And if we know that He heard it, should we not believe that He has answered it, and fulfilled this, our heart’s desire?  For with Him hearing means heeding .  Then why should we doubt that He did verily take our lives when we offered them—our bodies when we presented them? Have we not been wronging His faithfulness all this time by practically, even if unconsciously, doubting whether the prayer ever really reached Him? And if so, is it any wonder that we have not realized all the power and joy of full consecration?  By some means or other He has to teach us to trust implicitly at every step of the way. And so, ...

January 1 “So will not we go back from thee . . .”  (Psalm 80:18) Oh, there are heavenly heights to reach in many a fearful place,  While the poor, timid heir of God lies blindly on his face;  Lies languishing for light Divine that he shall never see  ’ Til he goes forward at Thy sign, and trusts himself to Thee . ( C.A. Fox )   When Mallory and Irvine were last seen on Mt Everest— the highest peak in the world—they were "going strong for the top.” Bitter cold, raging winds, blinding blizzards, engulfing avalanches of snow and rock— all these dangers stood between these brave climbers and the top of that towering mountain. Nothing could turn them back! What a great way to close the old year, and crossing the threshold into the new to say with these heroic climbers, “We will not go back from Thee !” Let us fare forth bravely, our feet on solid ground, our eyes to the stars, for we walk with Him whose promise is: “ Lo, I ...