Tag Archives: A.B. Simpson

Wednesday May 15, 2024 Philippians 3:14 I press on toward the goal. We have thought much about what we have received. Let us think of the things we have not received, of some of the vessels that have not yet … Continue reading →

Wednesday May 8, 2024 John 12:24 Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies. Death and resurrection are the central ideas of nature and Christianity. We see them in the transformation of the chrysalis, in the buried … Continue reading →

Wednesday May 1, 2024 Galatians 5:22-23 The fruit of the Spirit is . . . gentleness. Nature’s harshness has melted away and she is now beaming with the smile of spring, and everything around us whispers of the gentleness of … Continue reading →

Wednesday April 24, 2024 Psalm 37:8 Fret not yourself. A life was lost in Israel because a pair of human hands were laid unbidden upon the ark of God. They were placed upon it with the best intent to steady … Continue reading →

Wednesday April 17, 2024 Proverbs 16:32 He who rules his spirit [is better] than he who takes a city. Temperance is true self-government. It involves the grace of self-denial and the spirit of a sound mind. It is that poise … Continue reading →

Wednesday April 10, 2024 Hebrews 3:6 Hold fast our confidence. Seldom have we seen a sadder wreck of even the highest, noblest Christian character than when the enemy has succeeded in undermining the simple trust of a child of God, … Continue reading →

Wednesday April 3, 2024 Psalm 62.5 My hope is from him. When we believe for a blessing, we must take the attitude of faith, and begin to act and pray as if we had our blessing. We must treat God … Continue reading →

Wednesday March 27, 2024 Psalm 56:3 When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. We shall never forget a remark Mr. George Mueller once made in answer to a gentleman who asked him the best way to have … Continue reading →

Wednesday March 20, 2024 Romans 5:17 Those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. Precious souls sometimes fight tremendous battles in order to attain to righteousness … Continue reading →

Wednesday March 13, 2024 Jude 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God. Some time ago, we were enjoying a surpassingly beautiful sunset. The western skies seemed like a great archipelago of golden islands, the masses in the distance rising … Continue reading →

Wednesday March 6, 2024 Proverbs 3:5 Do not lean on your own understanding. Faith is hindered by reliance upon human wisdom, whether our own or the wisdom of others. The devil’s first bait to Eve was an offer of wisdom, … Continue reading →

Wednesday February 28, 2024 James 1:2 Count it all joy. We do not always feel joyful, but we are to count it all joy. The word “reckon” is one of the key-words of Scripture. It is the same word used … Continue reading →

Wednesday February 21, 2024 Isaiah 41:10 Be not dismayed, for I am your God. How tenderly God is always comforting our fears! How sweetly He says in Isaiah 41:10, “Fear not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for … Continue reading →

Wednesday February 14, 2024 Matthew 3:11 “He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” Fire is strangely intense and intrinsic. It goes into the very substance of things. It somehow blends with every particle of the thing it … Continue reading →

Wednesday February 7, 2024 Luke 16:10 “Faithful in a very little . . .” The man that missed his opportunity and met the doom of the faithless servant was not the man with five talents, or the man with two, … Continue reading →

Wednesday January 31, 2024 1 Corinthians 1:30 Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption. More and more we are coming to see the supreme importance of getting the right conception of sanctification, not … Continue reading →

Wednesday January 24, 2024 Matthew 10:8 “You received without paying; give without pay.” When God does anything marked and special for our souls, or bodies, He intends it as a sacred trust for us to communicate to others. “Freely ye … Continue reading →

Wednesday January 17, 2024 Philippians 2:13 It is God who works in you. God has not two ways for any of us; but one; not two things for us to do which we may choose between; but one best and … Continue reading →

Wednesday January 10, 2024 1 Corinthians 13:5 It [love] does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful. In the dress of a Hindu woman, her graceful robe is fastened upon her person entirely by means … Continue reading →

Wednesday January 3, 2024 Ezekiel 36:27 I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. The highest spiritual condition is one where life is spontaneous and flows without effort, like the deep floods of … Continue reading →