“Your bars shall be iron and bronze, and as your days, so shall your strength be.” Deuteronomy 33:25. Here are two things provided for the pilgrim: shoes and strength. As for the shoes: they are very needful for traveling along rough ways and for trampling upon deadly foes. We shall not go barefoot — this…
Read More“There, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.” Hosea 2:14. The goodness of God sees us allured by sin, and it resolves to try upon us the more powerful allurements of love. Do we not remember when the Lover of our souls first cast a spell…
Read More“The people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.” Daniel 11:32. “The Lord is a man of war, Jehovah is his name.” Those who enlist under His banner shall have a Commander who will train them for the conflict and give them both vigor and valor. The times of which Daniel…
Read More“Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.” Zephaniah 3:19. There are plenty of these lame ones, both male and female. You may meet “her that halteth” twenty…
Read More“Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4. By the valley of weeping we come to Zion. One would have thought mourning and being blessed were in opposition, but the infinitely wise Savior puts them together in this Beatitude. What He has joined together let no man put asunder. Mourning for…
Read More“Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.” Psalm 55:22. It is a heavy burden; roll it on Omnipotence. It is thy burden now, and it crushes thee; but when the Lord takes it, He will make nothing of it. If thou art…
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