Bible Gems

March 20 GRACE  OPENS  THE  DOOR And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.  John 1:14 And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness.  2 Corinthians 12:9 Do we not always fail when God confers a responsibility upon us?  Only grace can keep us.  How thankful we can be that grace always overrules when we have spoiled everything.  It gives us an "open door." No, this is not to return to what we have ruined.  Rather, grace gives us something entirely new--something better than what we previously possessed. When Sardis did not repent, the Lord gave an open door--not a door back to the beginning of Sardis (Revelation 3:1-6), but a door to Philadelphia (Revelation 3:7-13).  The meaning of this open door is not liberty in preaching the gospel; it has nothing to do with this. ...

March 11 THE  WORK  OF  CHRST It is finished: and He bowed His head and gave up the ghost.   John 19:30 "It is finished!"  thus He spoke on the cross and the words assure us that all is done. The rent veil and the open tomb tell us  "It is finished."  But what has been accomplished in this blessed work?  We cannot fully grasp it now as long as we look into a glass darkly. When at last we are brought into His Presence, transformed into His own image, when we shall have share with Him in His glorious inheritance, when at last sin and death are no more and a new heaven and new earth are called into existence, then shall we more fully know what that work has accomplished. All, ALL we have and are, all we shall have and shall be as His own, has its blessed source in the cross of Christ.  He died for all. He gave Himself a ransom for all.  He tasted death for every man.  He is the propitiation for the whole world (not ...

March 1 MEET  FOR THE  MASTER'S  USE Serving the Lord with all humility of mind.  Acts 20:19 The eye that is most anointed will not be the first to see failure in others, and  the soul that knows most of walking under the yoke with the Master  will not be the first to undertake the putting right, according  to its own mind, of what halts and limps in others. Prayer is sure work and the harbinger of blessing . . . and often what sets us a praying for more is the a first dropping of His rich love and grace. Through evil report and through good report Paul had to pass,  and so far as any accusation against me is known to me as not true  . . . I do not think one need to be unhappy about it. . . .  But there is a  reward for our bearing false accusations.  G. V. Wigram Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake.  Rejoice,...