The people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise. Isaiah 43:21.
Read MoreSurely your wrath against mankind brings you praise, and the survivors of your wrath are restrained. Psalm 76:10. Wicked men will be wrathful. Their anger we must endure as the badge of our calling, the token of our separation from them: if we were of the world, the world would love its own. Our comfort is that…
Read More“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” John 4:29.
Read MoreFor his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. Psalm 30:5. A moment under our Father’s anger seems very long, and yet it is but a moment after all. If we grieve His Spirit, we cannot look for His smile; but He is a God…
Read MoreHow, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet…
Read MoreFrom six calamities he will rescue you; in seven no harm will touch you. Job 5:19. Eliphaz in this spoke the truth of God. We may have as many troubles as the workdays of the week, but the God who worked on those six days will work for us till our deliverance is complete. We shall rest with…
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