Hugh Black

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1.) Love-Inspired Obedience
      "And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God" (Acts 16:25). What can turn the statutes into songs, take the sting out of the commandments, make the will of God a delight? When it is all transfigured by the glory of love. Love inspires obedience to law, and makes it easy. If we see law not as something external, an oblig ...read more

2.) Patience of Perseverance
      "If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?" (Jer. 12:5). Does it seem an unfeeling answer? It was the answer Jeremiah needed. He needed to be braced, not pampe ...read more

3.) Refusal of the Small
      "By faith Moses...refused..." (Heb. 11:24). Faith is the refusal of the small, for the sake of the large. Faith will make no decision, take no step, merely from worldly motives; for it sees past the immediate good to a richer, grander good. Worldly-wisdom is not wisdom; it is folly, the blind grasping at what is within reach. It is folly, f ...read more

4.) Statutes into Songs
      "Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage" (Ps. 119:54). Statutes need to be turned into songs before their work can be completed. The note is struck in the very first Psalm, which speaks of the blessedness of loving the Law and the curse of hating it. The Psalter is the blossom of the Law, preparing for its perfect fru ...read more

5.) The Thrill of the Moment
      "Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth" (Prov. 17:24). We all know something of the attraction of distance, the romance of the unknown; and we are inclined to minimise present opportunities by dreaming about some larger sphere where we would do great things. Not here, but somewhere ...read more