Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and take you back to the land of your fathers.” Genesis 48:21. Good old Jacob could no more be with Joseph, for his hour had come to die: but he left his son without anxiety, for he said with…
Read More“Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.” Ezekiel 16:60. Notwithstanding our sins, the Lord is still faithful in His love to us. He looks back. See how He remembers those early days of ours when He took…
Read More“Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” Jeremiah 33:3. God encourages us to pray. They tell us that prayer is a pious exercise which has no influence except upon the mind engaged in it. We know better. Our experience gives the lie a…
Read MoreThe Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?” Judges 6:14. What a look was that which the Lord gave to Gideon! He looked him out of his discouragement into a holy bravery. If our look to the Lord…
Read More“Surely the righteous will praise your name, and the upright will live in your presence.” Psalm 140:13. Oh, that my heart may be upright, that I may always be able to bless the name of the Lord! He is so good to those that be good, that I would fain be among them and feel…
Read More“You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near.” James 5:8. The last word in the Canticle of love is, “Make haste, my beloved,” and among the last words of the Apocalypse we read, “The Spirit and the Bride say, Come”; to which the heavenly Bridegroom answers, “Surely I come quickly.”…
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