AUGUST 28 Oil for the lamps.(Exodus 25:6) My soul, you really need this, for your lamp will not continue to burn for long without it. Your snuff will smoke and become an offense if light is gone, and gone it will be if you run out of oil. You have no oil well springing up…
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AUGUST 27 How long will they not believe in me … ?(Numbers 14:11) Strive with all diligence to keep out the monster of unbelief. It is so dishonoring to Christ that He will withdraw His visible presence if we insult Him by tolerating it. It is true it is a weed that we can never…
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AUGUST 26 He has commanded his covenant forever.(Psalm 111:9) The Lord’s people delight in the covenant itself. It is an unfailing source of comfort to them as often as the Holy Spirit leads them into the banqueting house and waves the banner of love. They delight to contemplate the antiquity of that covenant, remembering that…
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AUGUST 25 His fruit was sweet to my taste.(Song of Songs 2:3) Faith is described in a variety of in the Bible. It is sight: “Turn to me and be saved.”1 It is hearing: “Hear, that your soul shall live.”2 Faith is smelling: “Your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia”;3 “your…
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AUGUST 22 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.(Song of Songs 5:8) Such is the language of the believer panting after present fellowship with Jesus—he is sick for his Lord. Gracious souls are never perfectly at ease except when they are…
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AUGUST 20 The sweet psalmist of Israel.(2 Samuel 23:1) Among all the saints whose lives are recorded in Holy Scripture, David possesses an experience of the most striking, varied, and instructive character. In his history we meet with trials and temptations that are not found, as a whole, in other saints of ancient times, and…
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AUGUST 19 He shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the Lord.(Micah 5:4) Christ’s reign in His Church is that of a shepherd-king. He has supremacy, but it is the superiority of a wise and tender shepherd over his needy and loving flock. He commands and receives obedience, but it is the…
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AUGUST 18 Foreigners have come into the holy places of the Lord’s house. (Jeremiah 51:51) In this account the faces of the Lord’s people were covered with shame, for it was a terrible thing for men to intrude upon the Holy Place that was reserved exclusively for the priests. Everywhere around us we see similar…
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AUGUST 17 The steadfast love of God.(Psalm 52:8) Meditate a little on this steadfast love of the Lord. It is tender love. With gentle, loving touch, He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. He is as gracious in the manner of His steadfast love as in the matter of it. It is great…
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AUGUST 16 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name.(Psalm 29:2) God’s glory is the result of His nature and acts. He is glorious in His character, for there is such a store of everything that is holy and good and lovely in God that He must be glorious. The actions that flow from…
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