“He expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning Himself” (Luke 24:27).
Name of Jesus! Highest name!
Name that earth and heaven adore;
From the heart of God it came,
Leads me to God’s heart once more.
Name of Jesus! Living tide!
Days of drought for me are past;
How much more than satisfied
Are the thirsty lips at last.
Only Jesus! Fairest name!
Life and rest, and peace and bliss!
Jesus, evermore the same;
He is mine, and I am His.
G.T.S.
The Lord Jesus began in a manger and ended on the cross, and along the way He had not where to lay His head.
A Jesus dying on the cross for the vilest meets the wants and burdens of the vilest. . . . If his sins are a burden to him, he may see Christ bearing them that he may be free and have peace.
The more we see the value of the cross, the more precious will Christ be to us.
If Jesus sees perfection in us, we need nothing more.
The Holy Spirit is a power that detaches us from everything and binds us to that which is invisible — to Christ in heaven and to the love of the Father.
“Her sins . . . are forgiven; for she loved much” (Luke 7:36-50). The Lord is able to make this pardon known. He reveals it to the poor woman. But it was that which she had seen in Jesus Himself which, by grace, melted her heart and produced the love she had to Him — the seeing what He was for sinners like herself. She thinks only of Him. He has taken possession of her heart so as to shut out other influences. . . . She goes into the house of this proud man without thinking of anything but the fact that Jesus is there. . . . She saw what He was for a sinner and that the most wretched and disgraced found a resource in Him. . . . A Saviour-God being present, of what importance was Simon and his house? Jesus caused all else to be forgotten. Let us remember this.
Whatever enfeebles attachment to Christ destroys power. It is not gross sin that does it, which of course will be . . . judged, but it is the little things of everyday life which are apt to be chosen before Christ.
If I have that in and about me which distresses the soul, I have that in Him which is unfailing joy and comfort. . . . Where could one’s heart turn for rest if it had not Jesus to rest in? With Him let heaven and earth be turned upside down, and still I have a rest.
There is power to attract out of every corruption around and to gather the soul into the thoughts and ways of God by the revelation of Christ Himself.
“That on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.” . . . If people have not got Christ, they tire. There will be no enduring unless Christ has possession of the soul, but if He has, there will be an abiding motive, and people will go on and “bring forth fruit with patience.” . . . Trouble may come in in the church; disappointment may arise, even from the brethren, but they go on just the same, because they have got Christ before them, for the word they have heard and keep connects them with Christ, and He is more than anything else.
J