Song of Songs: The Greatest Love Story in the World

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For February 10        The Call of the Hills               "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills." Psa 121:1              It is generally held by those who are competent to judge that this Psalm dates from the period of the exile. It was written by one who was far away from Palestine, a prisoner in distant Babylon. If that is so, it gives a new significance to the words of this text, for Babylon was a level country, a land of vast and monotonous expanse. And it was out of the dreariness of such a land that the psalmist thought of the hills which he had once loved to look on and which were dyed with the memories of home.              When I lived at Oxford, a good many years ago, one of the tutors lay dying of cance...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For February 9        The Ignorance of the Expert               "The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes." Psa 118:22-23              Had it been others who had rejected this stone, there would be no reason for surprise. The man in the street can scarcely be expected to be an authority on stones. If my watch gets out of order, I would never dream of taking it to the shoemaker. If I did and he made a mess of it, I would have only myself to blame. I naturally take it to the watchmaker who has been studying watches since he was first apprenticed and who, in this particular business, is an expert.              The notable thing is t...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For February 8        Creation's Witness to the Youth of Jesus               "Thou hast the dew of thy youth." Psa 110:3              By taking a bit of liberty with these poetic words, we shall apply them, without any prelude, to the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, there are two expressions in our text to which we shall give attention, and the first of these is youth: "Thou hast the dew of thy youth."              They say that in heaven the saints are always young. No weariness of age can enter there. It is eternal morning around the throne of God. And if that is so, and I do not think it is a dream, it is because there is reflected the light of Jesus Christ on the face of every saint, and the light of Jesus i...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For February 7        Self-Denial an Attitude of Worship               "Bring an offering, and come into his courts." Psa 96:8              During worship there are certain demands made of every worshipper. There are certain elements which must be present if the worship is to be in spirit and in truth. There is, for instance, the attitude of thanksgiving for the goodness of God to us from day to day. There is the sense of spiritual need and the knowledge that none but God can meet that need. There is the sense of indebtedness to Christ who loved us and gave Himself for us, in whose death is our only hope and in whose Spirit is our only strength. All these attitudes must meet and mingle if our worship is to be really worship. Without them, a man may come to church and go away no ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For February 6        The Perils of Middle Age               "The destruction that wasteth at noonday." Psa 91:6              In all literature, the life of man is pictured under the symbol of a day. There is something in the rising and setting of the sun that compares so closely to life's start and close that the correspondence has been universally perceived. We speak of the morning of infancy or childhood; we describe the older age as the afternoon of life; the declining years are the evening of our day; and the final efforts as the lingering gleams of sunset. It is in such language, drawn from the sphere of day, that we imaginatively describe the facts of life. This being so, you will at once perceive the meaning we may attach to noonday. The noonday of life is the time of mi...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For February 5        The Glorious Lamp of Heaven               "The Lord God is a sun." Psa 84:11              A week or two ago, when we were all looking with interest towards the eclipse of the moon, I took up again a fascinating volume which I doubt that many of you have read. The volume I refer to is the Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert Ball, and Sir Robert Ball is not only an astronomer who holds high and honorable rank among men of science, he is also a writer of pure and lucid English.              In reading that volume I was deeply impressed by all that Sir Robert had to tell about the moon, but I think that I was arrested still more powerfully by the strange and wonderful story of the sun. Time and again ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For February 4        Refusing to Go Back               "So will not we go back from thee." Psa 80:18              To go back from God is to desert Him. It is to turn away the footsteps of our heart from Him. It is to doubt the vision we have had of Him in our more intense and illumined moments.              To determine that whatever comes, we shall not go back from God, is one of the open secrets of the saints. To cling to Him when life is difficult and we are tempted to question if He cares; to believe in Him with a simple childlike faith when clouds and darkness hide His throne--this is one of the triumphs of the spirit which makes the humblest life a thing of victory and brings it to the sunrise at the end. ...