From-Devotion

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

The Bible is not about you.

The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.

This is the first gospel sermon that was ever delivered… The Lord Himself preached it, and preached it to the Lord's two great enemies. Here, in the bruising of the Promised One, we have the everlasting covenant of grace.

Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

In the Old Testament the New is concealed; in the New the Old is revealed.

He became what we are that he might make us what he is.

If the resurrection of Jesus Christ really happened, then ultimately God is going to put everything right… if it actually happened, then there's all the hope in the world.

God loves you as you are, and not as you should be.

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things.

God, without any merit of my own, out of mere grace, imputes to me the perfect satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness of Christ — as if I had never had nor committed any sin, and as if I myself had accomplished all the obedience which Christ has rendered for me.

Crown him the Lord of years, the Potentate of time, Creator of the rolling spheres, ineffably sublime.

Jesus! the name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease; 'tis music in the sinner's ears, 'tis life, and health, and peace.

Immortal, invisible, God only wise, in light inaccessible hid from our eyes, most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, almighty, victorious, thy great name we praise.

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.

Of the Father's love begotten, ere the worlds began to be, He is Alpha and Omega, He the source, the ending He, of the things that are, that have been, and that future years shall see, evermore and evermore!

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee; holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty! God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!

To thee Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.

“Worthy the Lamb that died,” they cry, “to be exalted thus”; “Worthy the Lamb,” our lips reply, “for he was slain for us.”

Give what you command, and command what you will.

He was made man that we might be made God.

He slept not merely because of his fatigue as a man, but because he felt safe in his Father's hands. When the Master put his foot on board that vessel he knew there would be a storm. The tossing did not take him by surprise, and yet he went to sleep because he knew that all was right.

They did not exercise themselves in piety and in the spiritual worship of God, but, on the contrary, spread veils before God, that by presenting a fictitious form of worship, they might cover all their sins; for they thought themselves to be hidden from God.

The Israelite could not see the blood; he was inside the house … but God could see it; and this is the only condition of the sinner’s salvation — God’s seeing the blood, not your seeing it.

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he have previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

The law was therefore given, in order that grace might be sought; grace was given, in order that the law might be fulfilled.