Song of Songs: The Greatest Love Story in the World

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For May 15        The Category of Genius               Whom do men say that I am?--Mar 8:27               Impossible to Think of Christ as Genius              Among all the recent answers to this question, there is one that has obtained peculiar prominence. It is the answer that describes our Lord in terms of spiritual or religious genius. As one man has a genius for poetry, and another a genius for mathematics, so are we told today in many quarters that Jesus had a genius for religion. What Shakespeare was within the realm of poetry, and Newton or Kepler within that of science, that, though more conspicuously perhaps, was Jesus in the realm of religion. Now of course there is an element of truth in that, for the o...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For May 8        The Ultimate Discovery               And they went out to see what it was that was done. And they come to Jesus--Mar 5:14, Mar 5:15               They Went Out Searching and They Lighted on Jesus              As many of my readers are aware, there are no verses in the Greek New Testament. The text runs on without a single break. The verses of our English Bible have proved a great help to Scripture study. For thousands of humble folk they have made the Bible easier to read. But sometimes they obscure the sense, and cut right across some striking thought, as in the passage we are considering today. One pictures the swineherds, trembling and aghast, hurrying to the city with the news. One pictures the...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For May 7        Taking Him as He Was               They took him even as he was--Mar 4:36               Without What Some Thought as Necessary Provisions              From the first verse of this chapter we infer that Christ had been teaching the people from the boat. He was not particular about His pulpit. He had sat in the ship a little way from land, and spoken so to the crowds upon the shore. Now the teaching was over; He was weary; He was craving for a period of rest. And so He bade His disciples cross the lake, and that is the moment to which our text refers--they took Him even as He was. Perhaps the sky was threatening a storm, and someone had suggested fetching cloaks. Or one had hinted at getting store of...

`George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For May 6        The Responsibility of Hearing               Take heed what ye hear--Mar 4:24               Frequent Emphasis on the Responsibility of Speaking              On the responsibility attached to our speaking our Lord was never weary of insisting. He has given a significance to human words which has altered their character forever. These syllables, invisible as air, are indestructible as adamant. They are the opposite of the snowflake on the river, which is "a moment white, then gone forever." According to the consistent teaching of our Lord, our words are shaping our eternal destiny, and by them, as by the flower of the life, we shall be judged.           ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For May 5        The Kind of Man He Was               There was a man there [in the synagogue] which had a withered hand--Mar 3:1               He Was an Ordinary Man              If we center our attention on this man we see him as a quite ordinary person. He was one of the crowd of undistinguished people who go to church on the Sabbath day. Tradition says he was a bricklayer, and quite probably that is true. It at least indicates the old belief that this was a quite ordinary person. And one of the striking things about the Gospel is its perennial and amazing power over ordinary people like this bricklayer. He is not like Lazarus, or even Bartimaeus, whose names have come ringing down the aisles of time. The only ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For May 4        Harvest Thoughts               He went through the cornfields on the Sabbath day--Mar 2:23               Christ Introduces the Evidential Value of the Ordinary              Harvest helps us to recapture the thought of God in the common things of nature. We do not bring what is rare into the sanctuary; we bring the common products of the fields. Our Lord's outlook upon nature differs somewhat from that of the Old Testament. There generally (though not always) God is recognized in the stupendous. In the roaring cataract, in the thunder, in the cedar which overtopped its neighbors, the Jew saw the signature of heaven, and found his testimony to Jehovah. The wonderful thing about our Lord is how He introdu...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For May 1        Where They Found Him               And when they had found him--Mar 1:37               Lost and Found--Sinner and Savior!              Meditating on the Gospel story, one of the most enriching of all studies, one notes the great variety of places in which men and women found the Savior. There are people of whom we say admiringly, that you always know where you will find them. At any hour of any given day, you know where they are to be met with. But I venture to say, with the most perfect reverence, no one ever could say that of Christ--that was one of the wonders of His life. Appointments may be precious, but what a charm there is in unexpected meetings, when suddenly in the crowd we see a face, an...