My Bonfire of Vanities! (Alexander Smellie, “The Secret Place” 1907)  LISTEN to audio!  Download audio “Many who became believers confessed their sinful practices. A number of them who had been practicing sorcery brought their books and burned them at a public bonfire! The value of the books was several million dollars!” Acts 19:18-19 No conflagration […]

I can take my Elim with me through the great wilderness! (Alexander Smellie, “The Secret Place” 1907)  LISTEN to audio!  Download audio “After leaving Marah, the Israelites traveled on to the oasis of Elim,  where they found twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees.  They camped there beside the water.” Exodus 15:27 If I

In the last consummate city! (Alexander Smellie, “The Secret Place” 1907)  LISTEN to audio!  Download audio“I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband! No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will

My feeble hand lies in His; His omnipotent hand is clasped round mine! (Alexander Smellie, “The Secret Place” 1907)  LISTEN to audio!  Download audio “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and becomelike children, you will not enter the kingdom of Heaven!” Matthew 18:3 One writes of Robert Louis Stevenson that, “it was

The death of His saints! (Alexander Smellie, “The Secret Place” 1907)  LISTEN to audio!  Download audio “Precious in the sight of the Lord, is the death of His saints!” Psalm 116:15 To me death has its unlovely aspects: I may be ready by God’s grace to meet it, and yet I recoil instinctively from the

Ah! the heart was wrong, and therefore everything was wrong! (Alexander Smellie, “The Secret Place” 1907)  LISTEN to audio!  Download audio “Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered

The antidote for fear! (Alexander Smellie, “The Secret Place” 1907)  LISTEN to audio!  Download audio “Fear not, for I have redeemed you! I have called you by your name–you are Mine!” Isaiah 43:1 God is intensely desirous to rid me of my needless fears. Does He not give me reason after reason for peacefulness, calmness

Unspeakable! (Alexander Smellie, “The Secret Place” 1907)  LISTEN to audio!  Download audio What vastness and wonder there is about Christ and His redemption! When He is mine, I dwell among inexhaustible and immeasurable things! Three times the New Testament uses the adjective “Unspeakable!” concerning Him. 1. “Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift!” 2

I must take off my earthly garments, and put on my sacred dress (Alexander Smellie, “The Secret Place” 1907)  LISTEN to audio!  Download audio “Once the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court until they leave behind the garments in which they minister, for these are

The wisest arithmetic! (Alexander Smellie, “The Secret Place” 1907)  LISTEN to audio!  Download audio “Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom!” Psalm 90:12 I number my days aright, when I feel their fewness. To the imagination of the young, life seems long. They catch no echo of