The 'for' at the beginning of each clause points us back to the previous … These words are grand poetry and noble theology, but they are meant practically and in fiery earnestness. Scripture gives us no revelations concerning God merely in order that we may know about Him. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.'- ISAIAH lv. 'For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord.
…Īlexander Maclaren- Expositions of Holy Scripture Now, there are other notions of a sermon than that and there is other work which ministers have to do, of an educational kind. The meaning of the word preach is 'proclaim like a herald' or, what is perhaps more familiar to most of us, like a town-crier with a loud voice, clearly and plainly delivering the message.
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money come ye, buy and eat yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.'-ISAIAH lv.1. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fulness and all-sufficiency of Jesus, and as we go forward, simply and fully trusting Him, we may be tested, we may have to wait and let patience have her perfect work, but we shall surely find at last the stone rolled away, and the Lord waiting to render unto us double … Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. "Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree" (Isa. "Instead of the Thorn Shall Come up the Fir Tree" (Isa. Simpson- Days of Heaven Upon Earthĭecember 14.
Take the grievances, the separations, the strained friendships and the broken ties which have been the sorrow and heartbreak of your life, and let God heal them, and give you grace to make … Beloved, God is waiting to make just such memorials in your life, out of the things that are hurting you most to-day. God's sweetest memorial is the transformed thorn and the thistle blooming with flowers of peace and sweetness, where once grew recriminations. "Instead of the brier, the myrtle tree" (Isa. "Instead of the Brier, the Myrtle Tree" (Isa.
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