Psalm 108:4-5

For Reading and Meditation:     Psalm 85:1-13

We continue our study of the Beatitudes - the study of Jesus' declarations of how to become "the happy ones". Today we come to the fifth of Christ's famous sayings: "Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy" (Matthew 5:7). What does our Lord mean when He uses...

Whether men honor him or not, God is forever infinitely honorable. His perfections remain the same. By virtue of his divine power and Godhead, he is exalted where no conception of a finite being can follow him, much less add anything to or take anything from his exaltedness. But when God condescended to call creation into existence, it was for the purpose of revealing himself unto his intelligent subjects, and setting up a throne in the heart of each of them.

In this world, men are in...