Job 5:7

The Barked Fig Tree! (Author unknown) "He has laid waste my vine, and barked my fig tree ; He has stripped it bare and thrown it away!" Joel 1:7 There will be memory in Heaven. Will Noah ever forget the Ark, or Abraham Mount Moriah, or Jacob his wrestling with the angel? No — never! Will Joseph ever... Read More

The Death of the Righteous By Thomas Watson "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain!" Philippians 1:21 Paul was a great admirer of Christ. He desired to know nothing but Christ, and him crucified. 1 Cor 2:2. There is no medicine like the blood of Christ! I. "For to me, to live is Christ." T... Read More

The Lord's Prayer By Thomas Watson CHOICE EXCERPTS A vexing vanity! "Deliver us from evil." Matthew 6:13 In this petition, we pray to be delivered from the evil world . "He died for our sins, just as God our Father planned—in order to rescue us from this evil world in which we live." Galatians 1:4 I... Read More

Body of Practical Divinity By Thomas Watson CHOICE EXCERPTS Mirror and fountain The Scripture is a mirror to show us our sins; Christ's blood is a fountain to wash them away. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ A lamp for my feet "Teach me Your ways, O Lord, that I may live according to Your truth!" Psalm 86:11 Let us lead... Read More

HEARING THE ROD Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952) "Hear the rod and the One who ordained it" (Micah 6:9). "Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward" (Job 5:7). How can it be otherwise, living as he is in a world which is under the curse that Adam's sin entailed, and, what is worse, under God's ju... Read More

PEACE by Arthur Pink, 1940 "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." John 14:27 Nowhere do the moral perfections of Christ appear more blessed, than in the peace which ever possessed His soul! Ther... Read More

AFFLICTIONS! William Nicholson, 1862 "Affliction does not come from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground. Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward." Job 5:6, 7 Man is born in sin, and therefore born to trouble. There is nothing in this world we are born to, and can t... Read More

Man Is Born to Trouble! George Mylne, 1871 Yes, "man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward" — the one is as inevitable as the other (Job 5:7), and why? The saying is correct, we may be sure, seeing whose Word it is that says it. "Affliction," it tells us, "comes not forth of the dust, neither... Read More

Songs in the Night! Archibald G. Brown, June 26th, 1870, Stepney Green Tabernacle "God my Maker, who gives songs in the night ?" Job 35:10 It is impossible to doubt that this world is a world of sorrow. Go where you will and wander ever so far — you still find yourself unable to get beyond the regio... Read More

The Pioneer of Destruction! Archibald G. Brown, June 20th, 1869, Stepney Green Tabernacle "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." Proverbs 16:18 Chrysostom has aptly called pride "the mother of Hell" — for Hell with all its horrors is its hideous offspring. Had there bee... Read More