Key Verse: "Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again."
- John
11:23 KJV
There is wondrous music in these words, as they are spoken in the ears of sorrowing ones beside the coffin and by the new-made grave. It was a dim teaching in Martha's time—but soon afterward that occurred which made it bright and clear as day. Jesus himself lay in the grave, and then rose from death, walking forth in the light and radiancy of immortal youth.
Key Verse: "Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:"
- 1 Peter 1:6 KJV
What a blessed motto and superscription over the dark
lintels of sorrow: "If need be!" Every sharp arrow from the
quiver of God is feathered with it! Write it, child of affliction, over
every trial your God sees fit to send! If He calls you down from the sunny
mountain heights — to the dark glades, hear Him saying, "There is a need
be!" If He has dashed the cup of prosperity from your lips, curtailed
your creature comforts, diminished your "basket and your store," hear Him
saying, "There is a need be!" If He has ploughed and furrowed your soul with
severe bereavement; extinguished light after light in your dwelling; hear
Him therefore stilling the tumult of your grief: "there is a need be!"
Key Verse: "There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:"
- Luke 16:19 KJV
Who is more an object of ridicule than the rich miser—who goes supperless to bed, because he will not give one farthing out of his immense sums to purchase food; being afraid to live on what he is never able to spend, and anxious to heap up what he can never enjoy.
Key Verse: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
- Romans 8:28 KJV
Where is God at work in your life? Are you going through some deep hurt, pain or suffering? Could God perhaps be doing a special work through your present circumstances? One of the greatest promises in the Bible is found in Romans 8:28, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
Key Verse: "And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." - Philippians 4:7 KJV
In a world filled with noise, uncertainty, and constant pressure, peace often feels fragile, here one moment and gone the next. Yet the peace God offers is not like the peace the world gives. It is deeper, steadier, and supernatural.
Key Verse: "He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you."
- John 16:14 KJV
One essential and important office of the Spirit is to
glorify Christ. And how does He most glorify Christ, but by exalting His
atoning work, giving to it the preeminence, the importance, and the glory it
demands; leading the sinner, whom He has first convinced of sin, to accept
of Jesus as a willing, an all-sufficient Savior; to cast away all trust in
self, all reliance upon a covenant of works, which is but a covenant of
death, and thus going entirely outside of himself, to take up his rest in
the blood and righteousness of Immanuel, the God-man Mediator. Oh, what
sweet, holy delight must it be to the Spirit of God when a poor sinner, in
all his conscious nothingness, is led to build upon Jesus, the "tried stone,
the precious corner-stone, the sure foundation!"
Key Verse: "But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord."
- Jonah 2:9 KJV
Salvation is the work of God. It is He alone who
quickens the soul which is "dead in trespasses and sins," and it is He
also who maintains the soul in its spiritual life. He is both "Alpha
and Omega." "Salvation is of the Lord." If I am prayerful, God makes me
prayerful; if I have graces, they are God's gifts to me; if I hold on in a
consistent life, it is because He upholds me with His hand. I do nothing
whatever towards my own preservation, except what God Himself first does in
me. Whatever I have, all my goodness is of the Lord alone.
Bible Reading: John 11:23-31 KJV Key Verse: " Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. " - John 11...
