…Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain—Proverbs 30:8, 9 Agur asks the Lord for food that will be convenient for him. What does that mean? An answer to this question is possible, provided we are willing to be led by God’s evaluation of things and relationships. And certainly this is not unseemly, if we remember that this God is our GOD, who created us. Therefore...
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The date of the original publication in the Standard Bearer of Gerrit Vos’ meditation brings back memories. The date was May 15, 1963. On that date, I was preparing for examination before synod as a graduate from the seminary of the Protestant Reformed Churches. I was the only graduate. For the first two years, I was the only student in seminary. This meant that there was no graduate in 1961 or in 1962. Only one had graduated in 1960. After 1963, there would not be another graduate and candidate for the ministry in the PRC until 1965. One graduate and...
*Gerrit Vos (1894-1968) was a minister in the Protestant Reformed Churches and long-time contributor to the SB. This wonderful article was first published as a meditation in the June 15, 1948 issue of the SB (vol. 24, no. 18, pp. 409-411). “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish; neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I...
Gerrit Vos was a pastor in the Protestant Reformed Churches. This is a reprint of a meditation by Rev. Vos, written for the April 15, 1956 issue of the Standard Bearer. Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations He hath made in the earth. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. Psalm 46:8, 10, 11 Our village received a very special visit by the Lord Christ. It was...
The late Gerrit Vos was a pastor in the PRC and for many years a writer for the SB. We reprint here an article of his which appeared in the December 1 issue in 1958. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. Matthew 10:34 … and on earth peace….Luke 2:14b … The Prince of Peace.Isaiah 9:6b Higher criticism delights to find contradictions in the Bible. Well, the above texts seem to teach such. On the one hand we have heard the song of the nightingale in the...
Archivist’s Note: This article was originally published in the February 1, 1952 issue of the Standard Bearer. Having been deemed of timely benefit to the reader, it has been republished here, these many years later. Gerrit Vos was a minister in the Protestant Reformed Churches from 1927-1966. Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed...
*Gerrit Vos (1894-1968) was a minister in the Protestant Reformed Churches and a long-time contributor to the Standard Bearer. He wrote this meditation for the May 15, 1963 issue of the Standard Bearer. For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him: therefore also I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord. And he worshipped the Lord there. I Samuel 1:27, 28 There is a grievous shortage of ministers in our churches. And, as I learn from various church papers,...
It’s improper, so they tell me, to begin an essay, article or meditation with the pronoun of the first person singular “I”. So be it. And therefore I sneaked in this opening paragraph. I saw him! I must have been about twenty-two years old, just two years from the Netherlands.
“A bruised reed shall He not break, and the smoking flax shall He not quench.” Isa. 42:3
“And it came to pass, while He blessed them, He was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.” Luke 24:51, 52 “Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.” Acts 2:33
