Song of Songs: The Greatest Love Story in the World

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For August 15        Unwarrantable Interferences               If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him--Joh 11:48               The Error of the Pharisees              There was a sense in which the Pharisees were entirely wrong. Historically, and in the sovereign will of God, it is just because the Pharisees did not let Christ alone that we believe and worship Him. Had they let Christ alone, I speak with reverence, there would have been no Calvary for Jesus. And had Jesus never been lifted up on Calvary, He never would have drawn all men to Him. They were quite wrong, then, these Pharisees, in one sense. Their interference was a predestined thing. They plotted and schemed and compassed the death of J...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For August 14        Cock Crow               And immediately...the cock crew--Luk. 22:60               What You Hear Depends on What You Are              It is a deep truth, though not the whole truth, that what we hear depends on what we are. The meaning which we find in any voice is largely determined by ourselves. Peter was not the only one that night who heard the thrilling summons of the cock crow. Through that tense night of agony many would be wakeful in Jerusalem. But for Peter there was something in that note which was inaudible to anybody else; he heard it with the hearing of his soul. To the sufferer it meant that the darkness of the night was passing. To the laborer it was a sign and token that the toil...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For August 13        We May Live Too Long               Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him--Joh 11:9-10               The Confidence of Christ              These words are the recoil of Jesus from the fearfulness of the disciples. They had just told Him that if He went into Judaea, He did it at the peril of His life. To that, the answer of their Lord was, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? Is not My life planned out for Me by God? Are not My times in His hand? Till the appointed hour strikes, ten thousand may fall at My right hand, but it sha...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For August 12        The Number of the Hours               Are there not twelve hours in the day?--Joh 11:9               The Disciples' Misunderstanding of Christ              These words were spoken by Jesus at the time when news had been brought Him that Lazarus was sick. For two days Jesus had made no move, but had abode with His disciples where He was. The disciples would be certain to misconstrue that inactivity--they would whisper, "Our Master at last is growing prudent"--and therefore their amazement and dismay when Christ announced He was going to Judea. They broke out upon Him with expostulation--"Lord, it was but yesterday that You were stoned there. It is as much as Your life is worth to think of going-...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For August 11        The Man Who Does No Miracle               John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true--Joh 10:41               The Brilliant and the Average              The kind of man who does no miracle is the kind we are meeting every day. He is the man who never makes us marvel. There are men like Shakespeare who cannot take up a pen without enriching us with miracles of wisdom. There are women who delight us with miracles of song. But the average man is different from that. One can reckon on the thing that he will do. It is the sort of thing that we can do ourselves. Now, brilliance may be perilous; but mediocrity also has perils. Remember that in the Master's story it was t...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For August 10        The Thing Incredible               Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life .... No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself--Joh 10:17-18               History Has Come Full Circle              It is strange how often in the course of history the wheel has "come full circle." The impossibilities of yesterday have proved the commonplaces of today. Our Christian faith has always had its elements which powerfully commended it to men, and always there have been aspects of it which were obstacles to its acceptance; but the singular fact which steadily emerges from a growing knowledge of its story is how often the glory of the past becomes the difficulty of the present....

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For August 9        Eternal Life               I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly--Joh 10:10               What Is Life?              Amid all the mysteries which engird us there is none deeper than the mystery of life. We recognize life by a thousand evidences, and yet we know not what it is. When we see the surging crowd upon the streets under the glaring lamps of a great city; when we watch the children in their lighthearted glee come pouring from the school when it is over, we whisper to ourselves, What life is there! And yet, though it looks at us through countless eyes and speaks to us through innumerable voices, what that life is which is so manifested remains on...