Verse of the Day

"You have filled my heart with greater joy than when their grain and new wine abound. I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety."

Psalm 4:7-8

"Those only can be truly and perfectly happy who are interested in the favour of God, and they ought to live as strangers and pilgrims in the world, in order through hope and patience to obtain, in due time, a better life. Although the faithful also desire and seek after their wordly comforts, yet they do not pursue them with immoderate and irregular ardour; but can patiently bear to be deprived of them, provided they know themselves to be objects of the divine care."

John Calvin, Heart Aflame

Verse of the Day

"And the words of the Lord are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times" Psalm 12:6

"God promises nothing in vain, or for the purpose of disappointing man. God is not deceitful, He does not delude or beguile us with empty words, and He does not magnify beyond all measure either His power or His goodness, but whatever He promises in word He will perform in deed...Whenever He delays His assistance, we murmor and in essence call into question His promises - but, there is no greater truth than that God is true. It is, therefore, highly necessary for us to cut off the occasion of our distrust; and whenever any doubt respecting the faithfulness of God's promises steal in upon us, we ought immediately to lift up against it this shield - that the words of the Lord are pure."

John Calvin, Heart Aflame