Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it!

When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.

To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a 'silver lining' but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!

Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.

God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure.

Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.

A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to trust savingly in a Divine object.