JULY 3 The ugly, thin cows ate up the seven attractive, plump cows. (Genesis 41:4) Pharaoh’s dream has too often been my waking experience. My days of laziness have ruinously destroyed all that I had achieved in times of zealous endeavor; my seasons of coldness have frozen all the genial glow of my periods of…
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JULY 2 Our heart is glad in him. (Psalm 33:21) Blessed is the fact that Christians can rejoice even in the deepest distress; although trouble may surround them, they still sing; and like many birds, they sing best in their cages. The waves may roll over them, but their souls soon rise to the surface…
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JULY 1 It shall continue in summer as in winter. (Zechariah 14:8) The streams of living water that flow from Jerusalem are not dried up by the parching heats of sultry midsummer any more than they are frozen by the cold winds of blustering winter. Rejoice, O my soul, that you are spared to testify…
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JUNE 28 Looking to Jesus. (Hebrews 12:2) It is always the Holy Spirit’s work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus. But Satan’s work is just the opposite; he is constantly trying to make us look at ourselves instead of Christ. He insinuates, “Your sins are too great for pardon; you have no…
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JUNE 27 Only you must not go very far away. (Exodus 8:28) This is a crafty word from the lip of the arch-tyrant Pharaoh. If the poor enslaved Israelites must leave Egypt, then he bargains with them that it shall not be very far away—not too far for them to escape the terror of his…
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JUNE 26 You have become like us! (Isaiah 14:10) What must be the apostate professor’s doom when his naked soul appears before God? How will he bear to hear that voice telling him that he is banished forever from His presence and that he will not be the recipient of mercy? “Depart from Me, you…
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JUNE 25 Get you up to a high mountain. (Isaiah 40:9) Our knowledge of Christ is somewhat like climbing one of the mountains in Wales. When you are at the base you see only a little: the mountain itself appears to be only half as high as it really is. Confined in a little valley,…
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JUNE 24 A woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!” But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” (Luke 11:27-28) It is fondly imagined by some that it must…
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JUNE 3 These were the potters [who] lived there in the king’s service. (1 Chronicles 4:23) Potters were among the ranks of manual workers, but the king needed potters, and therefore they were elevated to royal service, although the material upon which they worked was nothing but clay. In the same way we also may…
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JUNE 22 It is he who shall build the temple of the Lord and shall bear royal honor. (Zechariah 6:13) Christ Himself is the builder of His spiritual temple, and He has built it on the mountains of His unchangeable affection, His omnipotent grace, and His infallible truthfulness. But as it was in Solomon’s temple,…
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