What Manner of Man Is This?
A Meditation on Matthew 8:27
“But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!” — Matthew 8:27
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“But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!” — Matthew 8:27
“And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD.” — Lamentations 3:18
“For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.” — Matthew 16:25
“My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.” — James 1:2–4
Romans 5:20 is one of the Apostle Paul’s most concentrated declarations of the triumph of divine grace:
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” — Philippians 3:13–14
“Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.” — Proverbs 16:24
A Meditation on Philippians 3:13
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.” — Philippians 3:13
A Meditation on Matthew 6:33
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” — Matthew 6:33
“When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.”
—Isaiah 43:2
“We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.” — 2 Corinthians 4:8–9
“For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
— 2 Corinthians 5:1, KJV
“My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.”
— Psalm 62:5