“Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch out Your hand Against the wrath of my enemies, And Your right hand will save me.” Psalm 138:7. Wretched walking in the midst of trouble. Nay, blessed walking, since there is a special promise for it. Give me a promise,…
Read More“If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth.” Ecclesiastes 11:3. Why, then, do we dread the clouds which now darken our sky? True, for a while they hide the sun, but the sun is not quenched; He will shine out again before long. Meanwhile those black clouds are filled with…
Read More“I will go before you And make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze And cut the bars of iron.” Isaiah 45:2. This was for Cyrus; but it is evermore the heritage of all the Lord’s own spiritual servants. Only let us go forward by faith, and our way…
Read MoreTherefore thus says the Lord: “If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them.” Jeremiah 15:19. Poor Jeremiah! Yet why do we…
Read More“I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.” Joel 2:25. Yes, those wasted years over which we sigh shall be restored to us. God can give us such plentiful grace that we shall crowd into…
Read More“The upright shall have good things in possession.” Proverbs 28:10. The book of Proverbs is also a book of promises. Promises ought to be proverbs among the people of God. This is a very remarkable one. We are accustomed to think of our good things as in reversion, but here we are told that we…
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