“You, Lord, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.” Psalm 18:28. It may be that my soul sits in darkness; and if this be of a spiritual kind, no human power can bring me light. Blessed be God! He can enlighten my darkness and at once light my candle. Even though…
Read More“From the rocky peaks I see them, from the heights I view them. I see a people who live apart and do not consider themselves one of the nations.” Numbers 23:9. Who would wish to dwell among the nations and to be numbered with them? Why, even the professing church is such that to follow…
Read More“If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all these thing.” Judges 13:23. This is a sort of promise deduced by logic. It is an inference fairly drawn from ascertained facts. It was not…
Read More“Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live.” Ezekiel 47:9. The living waters, in the prophet’s vision, flowed into the Dead Sea and carried life with them,…
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 so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;” 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…
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