We Preach Christ and Him Crucified - 1 Corinthians 1:23

Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: 2nd Timothy 1:9 -10

Wisdom from the Proverbs:

The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin. Proverbs 10:16

What a Sight!

O the beauty of the person of Jesus, when seen with the eye of faith by the illumination of the Holy Spirit! As the light of the morning, when the sun arises, "as a morning without clouds," is our Well-Beloved unto us. The sight of the burning bush made Moses put off his shoes, but the transporting vision of Jesus makes us put off all the world! When once He is seen we can discern no beauties in all other creatures in the universe. He, like the sun, has absorbed all other glories into his own excessive brightness. This is the pomegranate which love feeds upon, the flagon wherewith it is comforted.

A sight of Jesus causes such union of heart with him, such goings' out of the affections after him, and such meltings of the spirit towards him, that its expressions often appear to carnal men to be extravagant and forced; when they are nothing but the free, unstudied, and honest effusions of its love.

Carnal men are themselves ignorant of the divine passion of love to Jesus, and therefore the language of the enraptured heart is unintelligible to them. They are poor translators of love’s celestial tongue who think it to be at all allied with the amorous superfluities uttered by carnal passions. Jesus is the only one upon whom the loving believer has fixed his eye, and in his converse with his Lord he will often express himself in language which is meant only for his Master’s ear, and which worldlings would utterly scorn could they but listen to it. The pious feelings at which they jeer, are as much beyond their highest thoughts as the 'sonnets of angels' excel the 'gruntings of swine'.

C.H. Spurgeon

The Only Source of Comfort; the Only Spring of Joy?

The world may appear smiling and happy, but its appearances are deceitful. This is a world of sin and trouble.

Here, thorns and thistles grow around us; painful emblems of the human heart, and of the sad change which passed on Adam at the fall. Everything here in this world is fickle and changing.

If I rest my hopes upon an earthly friend, death removes the prop, and I fall, and mourn, and weep.

If I place my confidence on riches, they fly away as an eagle towards heaven, and leave me to regret the folly of my covetous desires.

If I build upon the breath of fame, it dies away, or changes into scorn or slander.

If I repose upon the rosy couch of earthly comforts, however lawful and endearing, these lovely flowers will quickly fade, and leave me nothing but the thorns.

Jesus is the only source of comfort; the only spring of joy.

Robert Hawker

One inconceivable beauty!

There is nothing in the Lord Jesus Christ that we could wish to have taken away from him; there is nothing in his love that is impure, nothing that is unsatisfactory.

Our precious Lord is comparable to the most fine gold; there is no alloy in him; no, there is nothing that can be compared with him, for "He is altogether lovely," all perfections melted into one perfection, and all beauties combined into one inconceivable beauty.