Daily Grace Gems

Today's Puritan AUDIO Devotional: Man, that puny worm of the dust! Thomas Dick, quite challenging Play Audio!  Read text  Download Audio You will find it helpful to READ the text–as you listen to the audio!    ~  ~  ~  ~ Such guilty, filthy, and polluted souls! (Thomas Brooks, “The Crown and Glory of Christianity, or, […]

As if we saw two shining eyes looking on us out of the darkness! (Thomas Guthrie, 1803-1873) “Does He not see my ways and count my every step?” Job 31:4 “A man’s ways are in full view of the LORD, and He examines all his paths.” Proverbs 5:21 “The eyes of the LORD are everywhere,

This is strange food to reason (Letters of William Romaine, 1782) “Behold, I will feed them with bitter food.” Jeremiah 9:15 My dear friend, Our Lord has been showing you some tokens of His singular regard for you. All whom He loves, He chastens. He has been trying you with His rod. The trial on

Amidst the multitude of supplicants who daily and hourly present their various petitions (Arthur Pink) The omniscience of God is an encouragement to prayer. There is no cause for fearing that the petitions of the righteous will not be heard, or that their sighs and tears shall escape the notice of God–since He knows the

All that He has, and all that He is, is theirs(Charles Spurgeon) “I will be their God.” Jeremiah 31:33 Child of God, let me urge you to make use of your God. Make use of him in prayer; I beseech you, go to Him often, because He is your God. He has made Himself over

Every groan of your wounded heart! (Thomas Guthrie, 1803-1873) If Jesus was only a man–then how could He guard the interests, and manage all the affairs of all His redeemed people scattered far and wide over the face of the habitable globe? What heart were large enough to embrace them all? What eyes could see

I could wish He would have spared my son (Letters of William Romaine, 1714-1795) My good Friend, I never was more obliged to you than for your Christian sympathy with us in this time of need. It is a great trial, but it is the Lord who has a right to do what He will

Love covers, overlooks, speedily forgives and forgets (Don Fortner) “Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.” Proverbs 10:12 Hatred is the selfish principle of an unregenerate man. It may be varnished by religion and smoothed by hypocrisy, but it is a subterranean storm, continually stirring up mischief and evil. Hatred creates or keeps

Christ enjoyed (Letters of William Romaine, 1714-1795) Christ enjoyed, being the death of every selfish affection . . .   mortifies the carnal heart,   crucifies worldly tempers,   and subdues creature-love. If we would daily walk with a happy heart, we must learn to draw all of our happiness from the precious love which

You should follow in His steps (Thomas Brooks, “The Crown and Glory of Christianity; or, HOLINESS, the Only Way to Happiness“, 1662) “He who says he abides in Him, ought himself also to walk even as He walked.” 1 John 2:6 Christians are to set all Christ’s moral actions before them as a pattern for