For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end. Psalm 48:14. We need a guide. Sometimes we would give all that we have to be told exactly what to do and where to turn. We are willing to do right, but we do not know which one of…
Read MoreIn vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat— for he grants sleep to those he loves. Psalm 127:2. Ours is not a life of anxious care but of happy faith. Our heavenly Father will supply the wants of His own children, and He knoweth what we have need of before we ask Him. We may therefore…
Read MoreThen 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 confidence, “God shall be…
Read MoreYet 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 us into covenant with…
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 thousand times over…
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 saves us, what will not…
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