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PSALM 116: A SACRIFICE OF THANKSGIVING

The first section of Psalm 116 (verses 1-9) perfectly describes the conversion of a soul to faith in God the Savior.   I can’t read these beautiful lines without thinking of my own conversion to Christianity.   The section begins with these words: “ I love the LORD, because He hath heard my voice and my supplications.  Because He hath inclined His ear unto me, therefore will I call upon Him as long as I live.” (Psalm 116:1, 2).   God is a God Who sees, and He is a God Who hears.   I love the Lord because one day I called out to Him, and He heard my voice.   When I humbled myself before Him, the God of the universe saw me and heard my prayer.   He not only heard me, but He also responded to me and revealed Himself to me.   As a result of that day, I will call on Him for as long as I live because He continues to hear me and speaks words of life to me.   Scripture tells us that His eyes are always on the righteous, and His ears are open to th...
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...THAT WITH ALL BOLDNESS THEY MAY SPEAK THY WORD

“And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, being grieved that they taught the people , and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead .” (Acts 4:1, 2).   “And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word… ” (Acts 4:29).   Sometime after Pentecost, two of the Apostles of Jesus, Peter and John, had gone together to Herod’s Temple for the hour of prayer at 3 p.m.  As they were about to enter the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, there was a lame man lying just outside who asked them for a handout.  This man had been lame from birth and was now about 40 years old.  Someone carried him day by day to lay him at the temple gate to beg for whatever kindness he could get from people passing through.  The people who frequented the Temple knew him because they had seen him there daily and been accosted by him for...
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THIS IS THE LORD'S DOING

“The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God .” (Isaiah 40:3).   “Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people .” (Isaiah 62:10).     John the Baptist was that voice crying in the wilderness which the Prophet Isaiah was speaking of.   When John came of age, he literally went into the wilderness to preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.   John’s message was so compelling that multitudes came to hear him from Jerusalem and all of Judea.   This was because it was not his own words that he spoke, but the words of God, for the scripture says, “The Word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.” (Luke 3:2).     John challenged those who came to hear him with the words of God.   He confronted the hypoc...
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