We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.

We have all heard the story of the man who preached so well and lived so badly, that when he was in the pulpit everybody said he ought never to come out again, and when he was out of it they all declared he never ought to enter it again.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

We cannot always trace God's hand but we can always trust God's heart.

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.

Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are an unsaved person. The Savior will sanctify His people, renew them, give them a hatred of sin, and a love of holiness. The grace that does not make a man better than others is a worthless counterfeit. Christ saves His people, not IN their sins, but FROM their sins. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.