Song of Songs: The Greatest Love Story in the World

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For February 28          The Wonder and Bloom of the World               Consider the lilies of the field--Mat 6:28               Jesus Keenly Alive to the Message of Nature              During the glorious days of June, when the world is so full of light and joy, it is an unspeakable satisfaction to remember that our Lord was keenly alive to the message of nature. It is part of the undying charm of the Gospel story that while it sounds all the deeps of the human spirit, it never forgets that we are living in a world where the grass is green and where the birds are singing. There are poets whose gift is that of interpreting nature. There are others whose genius works at its noblest in interpreting the strange st...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For February 21        He Knocks               Behold I stand at the door, and knock--Rev 3:20              We are all familiar with the picture by a well-known artist which portrays Christ standing at the door. It is one of the few pictures on a text of Scripture which has caught the imagination of the people. We see the door hanging on rusty hinges and covered with the trailing growth of years. And we see Christ, clad in His kingly robes, out in the dew and darkness of the night. And in the one hand He bears a lighted lamp whose rays are penetrating through the chinks and crevices, and with the other He is knocking at the door. You know the title the artist gave that picture. He did not call it "Christ knocking at the door." He called it--and there is spiritual genius in the t...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For February 20        White Raiment               He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment--Rev 3:5              The color white, which is so often mentioned in the Bible and always with an element of symbolism, is emblematical of purity. It is the symbol of purity in every language; the outward sign of it in every ritual. When I was in the country a few weeks ago, the grip of winter was still upon the land. But there was one bank, rising from the road, that was covered with innumerable snowdrops. And one could not look at them, so quietly beautiful, braving the bitterness of icy mornings, without recalling this text in Revelation: "He that overcometh shall be clothed in white." It was that thought which made the psalmist cry, "Wash me, and I shall be whit...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For February 17        God Knows               "When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path." Psa 142:3              It is often a deep relief in trouble to have someone with whom the grief may be shared. There is a certain pride natural to us all which prompts us to hide what we may have to bear. There are trials, too, of such a peculiar character that we can never hope to find an understanding heart. Nevertheless, speaking in general terms, it is a mighty solace to be able in our dark and bitter hour to pour our story into another's ear. Now that comfort, you notice, was denied this psalmist. "No man careth for my soul," he said. Crushed as he was into the very depths, men passed him by in selfish disregard. There was no one to whom he could go for a wo...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For February 16          The Joy of Jesus               "God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." Psa 45:7              For all the sorrows that lay upon His heart and the heaviness of the cross He had to bear, there can be little question that Jesus impressed people as a very contented person. When He spoke about His joy nobody had to ask Him what He meant. It never seemed strange to those who knew Him best that He should talk to them about His gladness. They were so familiar with it in their daily conversation, even when everything was dark and menacing, that the mention of it never took them by surprise. His enemies described Him as a wine-bibber, and that does not suggest a gloomy person. He called Himself a bridegroom, and the idea...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For February 15        Still With Thee               "When I awake, I am still with thee." Psa 139:18              A man whose religion is of a shallow kind is content with only an occasional acknowledgment of God. He has his stated seasons of approach to God and his rigid periods of worship. There are long stretches of time when, as the psalmist says, God is not in all his thoughts. He wages his warfare on the field of business in total forgetfulness of the divine--a mark of a religious life which is neither very deep nor very real. It never thrills in spiritual strength or joy.              Now in the book of Psalms, this is not so. The psalmist's recognition is continuous; always he sets the Lord before him. And it...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For February 14        The Comfort of the Universal Presence               "If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there." Psa 139:8              In the library of our university are certain old and interesting maps. They have all the charms of a geography which knows no limit save imagination. In modern atlases where there is ignorance, such ignorance is wisely acknowledged. In older atlases, on the contrary, it is curiously and cunningly concealed. And so in reading these dusty parchments covering territories unexplored we are told that here are cannibals, or satyrs and sundry other goblins.              All that has vanished from our maps today, but there is one thing...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For February 13        The Searching of God               "O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me." Psa 139:1              We are prone to associate the searching work of God with events of a striking or memorable kind. It is in great calamities and overwhelming sorrow that we feel with particular vividness God's presence. When Job was in the enjoyment of prosperity, he was an eminently reverent man; but it was in the hour of his black and bitter midnight that he cried out, "The hand of God hath touched me." And that same spirit dwells in every breast so that God's searching comes to be associated with hours when life is shaken to its depths. Now the point to be noted is that in this psalm the writer is not thinking of such hours. There is no trace that he has suffered terr...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For February 12   The Gifts of Sleep               "He giveth his beloved (in) sleep." Psa 127:2              If we take the words of our text just as they stand, they are charged with deep and beautiful significance. They tell us what our own experience confirms, that sleep is the gift of God. The world has gifts which it gives to its favorite children. It loads them with wealth or honor or fame. But God deals otherwise with His beloved, for "He giveth to his beloved sleep."              It would, of course, be very wrong to say that sleeplessness is a mark of the divine displeasure. A man may be wrapt in the gracious peace of God, yet seek in vain the refreshment of sleep. Yet it is true that sleep, when it is given, is such a medicine for t...