How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you. Psalm 139:17-18.
Read More“And wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish. For this water goes there, that the waters of the sea may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.” Ezekiel 47:9. The living waters, in the prophet’s vision, flowed into the Dead Sea…
Read More“For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.” Amos 9:9. The sifting process is going on still. Wherever we go, we are still being winnowed and sifted. In all countries God’s people are being…
Read More“But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.” Isaiah 33:21. The Lord will be to us the greatest good without any of the drawbacks which seem necessarily to attend the best earthly things. If…
Read More“Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,” Romans 5:3. This is a promise in essence if not in form. We have need of patience, and here we see the way of getting it. It is only by enduring that we learn to endure, even as by swimming men…
Read More“Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power, in holy garments; from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours.” Psalm 110:3. Blessed be the God of grace that it is so! He has a people whom He has chosen from of old to be His…
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