Comfort of the Scriptures

“The house of the Lord” was where the Lord had said that “there will I meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat.” David’s desire then was to be in the Lord’s presence, to be in fellowship with Him. The same desire is expressed by Paul when he said “that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death,” and “I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Many of us who know the Lord have a desire to go with the Lord, to “grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,” but, unlike David, we do not constantly “seek after” such fellowship. We allow ourselves to be “choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life.” If we would “follow on to know the Lord” in intimate fellowship, we must continually “seek those things which are above.”

If we would know His presence near And reflect His beauty too, Then we must count all things as loss That would hide His face from view.

Psalm 27:4 ~ Exodus 25:22 ~ Philippians 3:10 ~ Philippians 3:13‑14 ~ 2 Peter 3:18 ~ Luke 8:14 ~ Hosea 6:3 ~ Colossians 3:1

November 2023 S M T W T F S 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

December 2023 S M T W T F S 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6

January 2024 S M T W T F S 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Notes:

Comfort of Scriptures Blog by Bible Truth Publishers

“As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God,” for “of His own will begat He us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures,” and “it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, I will declare Thy name unto My brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto Thee.” So “the Spirit Itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.” Our Lord said that “I go to prepare a place for you. … And … I will come again, and receive you unto Myself.”

Born into the family of God By faith in our precious Lord; So then the world knows us not; It knows not Him nor His Word.

1 John 3:1 ~ John 1:12‑13 ~ James 1:18 ~ Hebrews 2:10‑12 ~ Romans 8:16‑17 ~ John 14:2‑3

October 2023 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

November 2023 S M T W T F S 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

December 2023 S M T W T F S 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6

Notes:

Comfort of Scriptures Blog by Bible Truth Publishers

Many are the tears that have been shed by God’s people in this sin-cursed and hostile world: tears of grief, tears of regret and remorse, tears of repentance, tears of helplessness, tears of concern, and even sometimes tears of joy. And the Lord knows about them all and keeps account of them all. Most of us can put ourselves in the place of the psalmist when he said that “my tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?” Many of God’s dear servants like Paul are “serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears,” and have “ceased not to warn everyone night and day with tears.” Many a letter has been written by the saints of which it may be said that “I wrote unto you with many tears,” and many dear children of God can say with David, “I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.” God permits these heartaches and tears for a purpose, and He counts all our tears. “In all their affliction He was afflicted … and He bare them, and carried them,” and His word to Hezekiah comes home to our hearts: “I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears.” And the time is fast approaching when “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”

The heart does break, and the tears flow Through dark and sorrowful nights, But blessing will come from His hand, Down from “the Father of lights.”

Psalm 56:8 ~ Psalm 42:3 ~ Acts 20:19 ~ Acts 20:31 ~ 2 Corinthians 2:4 ~ Psalm 6:6 ~ Isaiah 63:9 ~ 2 Kings 20:5 ~ Revelation 21:4

October 2023 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

November 2023 S M T W T F S 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

December 2023 S M T W T F S 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6

Notes:

Comfort of Scriptures Blog by Bible Truth Publishers

Few are the children of God who have never been “desolate,” lonely even in the midst of friends and loved ones, and “afflicted,” depressed, and greatly conscious of our need. At such times we know, deep in our hearts, the truth of the Lord’s words that “My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness,” but even such knowledge seems hard to lay hold upon in times of such depression. Our situation seems like that of Asaph, when he cried, “I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. … Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. Will the Lord cast off forever? And will He be favorable no more? Is His mercy clean gone forever? Doth His promise fail forevermore?” But notice how Asaph overcame such depression: “I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember Thy wonders of old. I will meditate also of all Thy work, and talk of Thy doings.” Do likewise, afflicted friend.

Is your heart now sad and lonely? Do you feel that all has gone? Your feelings do not alter Him; He’s ever true to His own.

Psalm 25:16 ~ 2 Corinthians 12:9 ~ Psalm 77:3‑8 ~ Psalm 77:10‑12

October 2023 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

November 2023 S M T W T F S 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

December 2023 S M T W T F S 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6

Notes:

Comfort of Scriptures Blog by Bible Truth Publishers

This verse anticipates the glorious time when our Lord Jesus Christ shall sit in Jerusalem on the “throne of His father David: and He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of His kingdom there shall be no end.” But that which will be true of redeemed and restored Israel in that day is so applicable now to us who know Him. For us He “is mighty,” He is “wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.” “He will save,” for “He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.” And “He will rejoice over thee with joy.” When we came to Him and trusted Him, there was “joy … in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,” and now the Lord continues to “rejoice over thee with joy.” He is not a hard taskmaster, ready to smite us when we fail. He deals with us in love and grace, and “like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. For He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.” “He will joy over thee with singing.” “His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness.”

He rejoiceth over His own, As one that findeth great spoil; He has redeemed us by His blood, Apart from our works or toil.

Zephaniah 3:17 ~ Luke 1:32‑33 ~ Isaiah 28:29 ~ Hebrews 7:25 ~ Luke 15:7 ~ Psalm 103:13‑14 ~ Lamentations 3:22‑23

October 2023 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

November 2023 S M T W T F S 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

December 2023 S M T W T F S 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6

Notes:

Comfort of Scriptures Blog by Bible Truth Publishers

What a dark picture precedes the above words. We “were dead in trespasses and sins,” and we “walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.” How benighted and benumbed and depraved we all were, “but God!” But for His intervention there was no hope for any. “But God … rich in mercy,” and because of “His great love,” has “quickened us together with Christ,” “who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree,” so that now “by grace ye are saved.” “But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” And not only so, “but God” still intervenes for us. “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

Lost, blinded, condemned and undone, No hope nor help could be found, “But God … rich in mercy” and grace, With love unbounded came down.

Ephesians 2:4‑5 ~ Ephesians 2:1‑3 ~ 1 Peter 2:24 ~ Romans 5:8 ~ 1 Corinthians 10:13

October 2023 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

November 2023 S M T W T F S 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

December 2023 S M T W T F S 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6

Notes:

Comfort of Scriptures Blog by Bible Truth Publishers

We are not always able to see how God works in the lives of His children. We know not His design nor can we trace His movements, “for we walk by faith, not by sight.” And the Lord says to us, as He did to Peter, “What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.” But amid all the testings and pressures of life we do know, by faith, that “as for God, His way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: He is a buckler to all those who trust in Him. … It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.” If, like Asaph, we must say that “all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning,” yet His word to us is that “I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.” Now “we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us … after their own pleasure; but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” So though “we are troubled on every side, yet [we are] not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair,” for we “have not seen, and yet have believed.”

We may not trace the ways of God, As He works in us each hour To bring His image in our lives, And to fill us with His power.

John 20:29 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:7 ~ John 13:7 ~ Psalm 18:30 ~ Psalm 18:32 ~ Psalm 73:14 ~ Isaiah 41:13 ~ Hebrews 12:9‑11 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:8

October 2023 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

November 2023 S M T W T F S 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

December 2023 S M T W T F S 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6

Notes:

Comfort of Scriptures Blog by Bible Truth Publishers

The long-anticipated Messiah and King had come to Israel, “He that is born King of the Jews.” After His baptism by John, when God had spoken from heaven, declaring that “this is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased,” and after He was “led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil,” over whom He was completely victorious, “Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The King was at hand, ready to set up His kingdom. Sad to say, “He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.” Not until He comes again “shall He sit upon the throne of His glory.” But when He announced that “the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” He also announced, in the Sermon on the Mount, the constitution and principles of the kingdom. One of these principles is: “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” This is always true, in any age, and it is true for us today. “Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.” Always, “the Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”

Humble and contrite before Him Brings blessing to us always; He delights when we but trust Him And rest in Him as He says.

Matthew 5:3 ~ Matthew 2:2 ~ Matthew 3:17 ~ Matthew 4:1 ~ Matthew 4:17 ~ John 1:11 ~ Matthew 25:31 ~ Isaiah 57:15 ~ Psalm 34:18

October 2023 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

November 2023 S M T W T F S 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

December 2023 S M T W T F S 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6

Notes:

Comfort of Scriptures Blog by Bible Truth Publishers

“Jesus” is our Lord’s name as a man, the name He took in incarnation. And having laid down His life for us, that He might take it again, and having ascended back to the Father, He now bears that name in glory, as the glorified man. “We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” He is there in glory as the glorified man, and we are told to be “looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Because He, “being found in fashion as a man … humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross … God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” “We wait for His Son from heaven … even Jesus.”

We humbly bow before Him, Jesus, the Son of God, Who bore our sins on Calvary, Bearing for us God’s rod.

Matthew 1:21 ~ Hebrews 2:9 ~ Hebrews 12:2 ~ Philippians 2:8‑11 ~ 1 Thessalonians 1:10

October 2023 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

November 2023 S M T W T F S 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

December 2023 S M T W T F S 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6

Notes:

Comfort of Scriptures Blog by Bible Truth Publishers

Without the substitutionary work of Christ on the cross and the resultant gospel message “that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,” there would be no answer to Job’s question in our text verse, “for there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not,” and man cannot justify himself by his works or by his religion, for “by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” So “how should man be just with God?” God’s Word answers this question. “The righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference: for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood … that He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.” “How should man be just with God?” “By Him all that believe are justified from all things.”

Justified by the Savior’s blood, No charge against me shall stand; He’ll take me safely through this life, And home to Immanuel’s land.

Job 9:2 ~ 1 Corinthians 15:3‑4 ~ Ecclesiastes 7:20 ~ Romans 3:20‑26 ~ Acts 13:39

October 2023 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

November 2023 S M T W T F S 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

December 2023 S M T W T F S 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6

Notes:

Comfort of Scriptures Blog by Bible Truth Publishers