“The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.” Isaiah 58:11. What aileth thee? Hast thou lost thy way? Art thou entangled in a dark wood and canst thou not…
Read MoreThis is what the Lord says: “Although they have allies and are numerous, they will be destroyed and pass away. Although I have afflicted you, Judah, I will afflict you no more.” Nahum 1:12. There is a limit to affliction. God sends it, and God removes it. Do you sigh and say, “When will the…
Read More“He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.” Psalm 145:19. His own Spirit has wrought this desire in us, and therefore He will answer it. It is His own life within which prompts the cry, and therefore He will hear it. Those who…
Read More“But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.” 2 Chronicles 15:7. God had done great things for King Asa and Judah, but yet they were a feeble folk. Their feet were very tottering in the ways of the Lord, and their hearts very hesitating, so that…
Read More“I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man.” Hosea 11:9. The Lord thus makes known His sparing mercies. It may be that the reader is now under heavy displeasure, and everything threatens his speedy doom. Let the text hold him…
Read More“He who trusts in the Lord, mercy shall surround him.” Psalm 32:10. O fair reward of trust! My Lord, grant it me to the full! The truster above all men feels himself to be a sinner; and lo, mercy is prepared for him: he knows himself to have no deservings, but mercy comes in and…
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