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For Reading and Meditation:     John 19:28-37

The chief difference between other religions and the Christian faith as it relates to the matter of personal salvation is: every other religion teaches a form of self-salvation; Christianity teaches that God came in the Person of His Son to do for us what we could not do for ourselves. One Christian writer, Emil...

There is a beautiful conception of the character of God involved in the use of the word "rich" in this connection. For he is said to be rich not in respect of what he has, but of what he bestows. Used of men the word indicates one to whom much has accrued; but it is used here of God to designate one from whom infinite wealth of blessing accrues to the sons of men. It is for us he is rich, his wealth is ours; we have a marvellous and inexhaustible treasury in him. God, in fact, proposes to...

He gives to all life, breath, and all things. § The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works. § Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them.The same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him.I will lift up my eyes to the hills—from whence comes my help? § Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,...