No Good Thing: Now the promise near the end of this psalm is quite a striking one. “No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly” (Ps. 84:11). We have some trouble navigating this concept when it comes to answered prayer. This is because Scripture gives us two mode...
20 You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them,And did not withhold Your manna from their mouth,And gave them water for their thirst.21 Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness;They lacked nothing;Their clothes did not wear outAnd their feet did not swell. 22 “Moreover You ...
Treasury of Scripture Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law. Owe. Romans 13:7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour. Deuteronomy 24...
The people that thought this unimportant were probably the same people that decided that a Bren Gun was a good thing for a bunch of brainless kids to play with. In any event, why am I telling you all this? Is it just another digression by an old man whose mind is wandering? No –...
My sweet baby George. He was the epitome if someone who knew me better than I knew myself had hand-designed a dog to fill every place in my heart. He was a cuddle-bunny, was obsessed with playing but not very good about the release part. He had the strongest little front arms that...
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. Treasury of Scripture And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my ...
32 He who did not withhold his own Son but gave him up for all of us, how will he not with him also give us everything else? 33 Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? It is Christ[t] who died, or rather, who was ...
mentioned would come to the Genie. “I would like A, B and C. Thank you very much.” We use verses on prayer so drastically out of context that we have convinced ourselves that God owes us an answer to our prayers. If we are good humans, He will do as we ask. Isn’t that the...
2:1-4 If errors arise among Christians, we should set them right; and good men will be careful to suppress errors which rise from mistaking their words and actions. We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of Scripture. Whatever...
It regards the will of God, on all subjects, as supremely good, and just as good on one subject as another. It is necessarily under the control of the will of God, and has no end in view, but in every thing to be directed by the will of God. Nothing is so dear, nothing so ...