'A new heart also will I give you.'--Ezek. 36:26 WHY does God promise this?  Because our old hearts are so evil that they cannot be made any better; and so nothing will do any good but giving us a quite new heart. Because we cannot make a new heart for ourselves; the ... Continue

          Passing Pleasures. These blessed passing pleasures!      We need not let them waste, We need not leave their treasures      Behind us in our haste. We need not doubt their fitness      Where earth's deep shadows fall; God giving, He is witness     That we shall want them all. Amid the old sad story      Of human shame and ... Continue

In the early years after my conversion, I wrote some stories about God's work in my life at the invitation of my pastor at a large evangelical Church where I attended services.  The stories were published in booklet form and God has used them in special ways throughout the years.  ... Continue

"A gardener knoweth what roots are in the ground long before they appear, and what flowers they will produce." Look over the garden in winter, and you will not know that there is any preparation for spring; but the gardener sees in his mind's eye--here a circle of golden cups, as ... Continue

'And King Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty.'--1 KINGS 10:13 ALL God's goodness to us is humbling.  The more He does for us, the more ready we are to say, 'I am not worthy ... Continue

A. B. Simpson said:  "Beloved, have you the marks of the Lord Jesus?  These sacrifices to which He sometimes calls us are just great investments that He is asking us to make and that He will refund to us with accumulated interest in the age to come." He then told the ... Continue

MY KING.  This is my Friend.  "The King shall be his Friend." Proverbs 22:11  "You are my friends." John 15:14 WHO has not longed for an ideal and yet a real friend Who would understand us, One whom we could tell everything One in whom we could altogether confide. One who would be very wise ... Continue

My first introduction to Charles Haddon Spurgeon was well into my walk with the Lord Jesus Christ.  Someone gave me a copy of MORNING & EVENING, a devotional book reprinted from the original.  Later a friend gave me an original copy (small enough to fit in the palm of my ... Continue

A Seeing Heart.* To 'FANNY CROSBY.' SWEET blind singer over the sea, Tuneful and jubilant! how can it be, That the songs of gladness, which float so far, As if they fell from the evening star, Are the notes of one who never may see, 'Visible music' of flower and tree, Purple of mountain, or glitter of snow, Ruby ... Continue

Mr. Charles did not forget his meeting with Mary, and God used him to show others through her story, the terrible sense of spiritual death that prevailed during this famine of Bibles.  God did not disappoint this faithful man, and used him to form a society for the diffusion of ... Continue