"Grace and Glory"; Archibald Brown

 "For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD will give GRACE and GLORY; no good thing does He withhold from those whose walk is blameless. O LORD Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in You!" 

(Psalm 84:11-12)

'Grace and Glory'— "I know not which of the two words after all is the sweetest; there is all the delicacy of the honeycomb in both 'grace' and 'glory'.— I know not how this verse can ever be forgotten, because every hour of every day I shall need the grace — and every hour of every day I ought to be longing for the glory — 'Grace and Glory'."

(Archibald Brown)~1906

What could man have been to Him? Archibald Brown 1868

"Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done this wondrous thing. Shout for joy, O depths of the earth! For the LORD has redeemed Jacob and is glorified in Israel."

(Isaiah 44:23)

"What could man have been to Him? What shadow of obligation was there on God's part to put forth the slightest effort to save a single rebellious sinner? What could it have been to God whether man was saved or damned? He would have been glorified in either case, and still remained "The blessed (happy) God." 

But sweet thought! It was much to him; his sovereign unaccountable love said, "Deliver him from going down to the pit — I have found a ransom!" The Lord has done it, and done it alone. With whom did he take counsel in this matter? Who paid part-price with him? Redemption is no work of the many; it is God's own in plan and execution; he came forth to the work "in the greatness of his strength," "mighty to save."

(Archibald Brown)~1868

B.B. Warfield: Miserable Sinners

"When you have done all that you were commanded, say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.'

(Luke 17:10)

It belongs to the very essence of the type of Christianity that the believer should feel himself continuously unworthy of the grace by which he lives. At the center lies the contrast of sin and grace; and about this center everything else revolves. This is in large part the meaning of the emphasis put in this type of Christianity on justification by faith. It is its conviction that there is nothing in us or done by us, at any stage of our earthly development, because of which we are acceptable to God. We must always be accepted for Christ’s sake, or we cannot ever be accepted at all. This is not true of us only “when we believe.” It is just as true after we have believed. It will continue to be true as long as we live. Our need of Christ does not cease with our believing; nor does the nature of our relation to Him or to God through Him ever alter, no matter what our attainments in Christian graces or our achievements in Christian behavior may be. It is always on His “blood and righteousness” alone that we can rest. There is never anything that we are or have or do that can take His place, or that can take a place along with Him. We are always unworthy, and all that we have or do of good is always of pure grace. Though blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ, we are still in ourselves just “miserable sinners”: “miserable sinners” saved by grace to be sure, but “miserable sinners” still, deserving in ourselves nothing but everlasting wrath."

(B.B. Warfield)

Devotional: B.B. Warfield

The LORD of hosts has sworn: "As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand,"

(Isaiah 14:24)

"In the infinite wisdom of the Lord of all the earth, each event falls with exact precision into its proper place in the unfolding of His divine plan. Nothing, however small, however strange, occurs without His ordering, or without its particular fitness for its place in the working out of His purpose; and the end of all shall be the manifestation of His glory, and the accumulation of His praise."

(B.B. Warfield)

Devotional: B.B. Warfield

"[Jesus] is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them."

(Hebrews 7:25)

"Had He not emerged from the tomb all our hopes, all our salvation would be lying dead with Him unto this day. But as we see Him issue from the grave we see ourselves issue with Him in newness of life. Now we know that His shoulders were strong enough to bear the burden that was laid upon them, and that He is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God through Him. The resurrection of Christ is thus the indispensable evidence of His completed work, His accomplished redemption."

(B.B. Warfield)

The Helper

"When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth, for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak, and He will declare to you the things that are to come."

(John 16:13)

"How can we who are so weak in ourselves, so inferior in power to the enemies confronting us, bear up under our trials which are so numerous, so protracted, so crushing? We could not, and therefore Divine grace has provided for us an all-sufficient Helper. Without His aid we had long since succumbed, mastered by our trials. Hope looks forward to the Glory to come; in the weary interval of waiting, the Spirit supports our poor hearts and keeps grace alive within us."

(A.W. Pink)

Devotion: A.W. Pink

"I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways."

(Psalm 119:15)

"The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker."

(A.W. Pink)