“Perfect in Christ Jesus.” Colossians 1:28 Do you not feel in your own soul that perfection is not in you? Does not every day teach you that? Every tear which trickles from your eye, weeps “imperfection”; every harsh word which …
“But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.” Luke 2:19 There was an exercise, on the part of this blessed woman, of three powers of her being: her memory-she kept all these things; her affections-she kept …
“And of his fulness have all we received.” John 1:16 These words tell us that there is a fulness in Christ. There is a fulness of essential Deity, for “in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead.” There is …
“All they that heard it wondered at those things.” Luke 2:18 We must not cease to wonder at the great marvels of our God. It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for …
“Your heavenly Father.” Matthew 6:26 God’s people are doubly his children, they are his offspring by creation, and they are his sons by adoption in Christ. Hence they are privileged to call him, “Our Father which art in heaven.” Father! …