“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 MoreI will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through 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 will be cleared…
Read MoreTherefore this is what the Lord says: “If you repent, I will restore you that you may serve me; if you utter worthy, not worthless, words, you will be my spokesman. Let this people turn to you, but you must not turn to them.” Jeremiah 15:19. Poor Jeremiah! Yet why do we say so? The…
Read More“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten — the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm — my great army that 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…
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…
Read MoreBlessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Matthew 5:7. It is not meet that the man who will not forgive should be forgiven, nor shall he who will not give to the poor have his own wants relieved. God will measure to us with our own bushels, and those who have been…
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