This is what a grace-taught soul is anxious to know if he really possesses. He watches his own heart and looks for the evidences of the Spirit's work. He compares his feelings experienced by the Word of God and hopes he has the true marks of one of God's children. Nothing short of this will satisfy him. He is fearful of being deceived or deceiving others. He keeps much of what he passes through in the exercises of his mind to himself; but if he hears others speak of what they have passed through and he finds it corresponds with his own longings, desires, hopes, he is encouraged to hope there is a work of grace in his heart and that he is in the…

We may learn from an enemy. Certainly Rabshakeh and his master were enemies to Judah; thus he asks this taunting question. We would urge it in a different spirit, and on more important matters. Because there are many false confidences in which men trust. Did not the Saviour speak of those who built their house on a foundation of sand? And in time of storm the whole fabric came to the ground. There are those who blindly trust their fellow-creatures, carried away with their specious arguments and false reasonings. It is disastrous to trust false men with earthly property, as many have proved to their cost; but it is far more serious to trust such in the eternal matters of the soul. Yet, alas! many…