Psalm 147:1-6

For Reading and Meditation:     Ezekiel 11:1-15

The final aspect of God's nature that we examine is His knowledge and wisdom. I link these two characteristics together because really it is almost impossible to consider one without considering the other. This is true of all God's attributes, but perhaps more so of the two we are now about to consider. The...

For Reading and Meditation:     Psalm 104:1-35

Now we consider God's might and power in the act of preservation. No creature has power to preserve itself. "Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh?" asked Job (Job 8:11). Both man and beast would perish if there were no food, and there would be no food if the earth...

For Reading and Meditation:     1 Corinthians 6:1-11

Yesterday we touched on the point that the universe will not respond to the aggressive, who approach it in a demanding spirit. It is the meek - those who are yielded, submissive and compliant - who inherit the earth. Thomas Huxley is quoted as saying something which we commented on earlier: "Science says to sit...

The thought of God is undoubtedly the greatest thought that can occupy the human mind. Great thoughts of God ennoble all of life. Small thoughts of God destroy those who hold them.

God is very great. After a magnificent description of the power and majesty of God, Job said, "Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: and how small a whisper do we hear of him! but the thunder of his power who can understand?" (Job 26:14 RV). We see only...

The omniscience of God means that He has perfect knowledge of everything. He has never learned and can never learn.

One of the great passages on the subject is Psalms 139:1-6, where David wrote: "O Lord, thou has searched me and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my...

What an interesting insight! The great, transcendent God doesn't take pleasure in the legs of a man!

We can think of this in connection with the world of athletics. The track star, lithe and swift, crossing the finish line with hands flung high in victory. The basketball player, streaking down the court to sink the winning basket. The football hero, muscular and strong, irresistibly plunging through the line.

The crowd goes wild. They are jumping, shouting, cheering (or...

The meek are they who have consented to receive the knowledge of themselves. Self-detection has led to self-spoliation. Their wardrobe has turned out to be a pirate's chest. The more richly they went arrayed, the more they exposed their own dishonor. They gladly now sink down to their proper level, and find no place too low for them. Perhaps they occasionally shrink back from some deeper humiliation. But the Spirit of God and his providence convince them, and they take that step too. They...

Yet there are many that die of a broken heart. Some beautiful dream vanishes after having lured them to embark all their hopes and affections upon it the phantom vessel disappears and they are left a prey to the angry billows; but even then, would they but know it, there is deliverance for them. Admit that all their hopes are blasted; God, whose matchless title is this, " The God of hope," remains. All the good you have dreamed of, and infinitely more, resides in him. God is not dead; why...

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart— these, O God, You will not despise. § He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. § Thus says the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would fail...

Peter remembered the word of Jesus who had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” So he went out and wept bitterly. § If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head; therefore my heart fails me. Be pleased, O Lord, to...