Gospel Awareness

"There is a joy which contains the germ of all other joys—the joy of salvation. To know that our sins—our own sins—have been nailed to the cross of Christ; to know that we belong to our God for ever; to measure with the eye that grace which adopted us before the stars were brought forth, and which will still hold us in its keeping when the skies of today shall have ceased to shine for us; to contemplate that love which reaches, let me say, from eternity to eternity—from the eternity that has gone before to the eternity that is...

"Hear me! To Thee my soul in suppliance turneth,Like the lorn pilgrim on the sands accursed;For life's sweet waters, God! my spirit yearneth —Give me to drink! I perish here of thirst!" —Mary E. Hewitt   "There is an exciting element of this hunger and thirst after righteousness, or, what leads man to hunger and thirst after righteousness, a deep sense of guilt. Man feels he is miserable; he knows, and needs not to be told, that he is sinful, and he is therefore unhappy. His heart makes him feel he is miserable; his conscience tells him he is guilty;...