AUGUST 15 Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening.(Genesis 24:63) Isaac’s evening occupation was very admirable. If those who spend so many hours in idle company, light reading, and useless pastimes could learn wisdom, they would find more profitable society and more interesting engagements in meditation than in the vanities that now…
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AUGUST 14 You, O Lord, have made me glad by your work.(Psalm 92:4) Do you believe that your sins are forgiven and that Christ has made a full atonement for them? Then what a joyful Christian you ought to be! How you should live above the common trials and troubles of the world! Since sin…
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AUGUST 13 The cedars of Lebanon that he planted. Psalm 104:16 Lebanon’s cedars are emblematic of the Christian, in that they owe their planting entirely to the Lord. This is quite true of every child of God. He is not man-planted, nor self-planted, but God-planted. The mysterious hand of the divine Spirit dropped the living seed…
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AUGUST 12 The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice. (Psalm 97:1) There are no real causes for anxiety as long as this blessed sentence is true. On earth the Lord’s power controls the rage of the wicked as readily as the rage of the sea; His love refreshes the poor with mercy as easily as…
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AUGUST 8 They weave the spider’s web. (Isaiah 59:5) Observe the spider’s web and find in it a most suggestive picture of the hypocrite’s religion. It is meant to catch his prey: The spider fattens himself on flies, and the Pharisee has his reward. Foolish people are easily trapped by the loud professions of pretenders, and…
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AUGUST 7 Rightly do they love you. (Song of Songs 1:4) Believers love Jesus with a deeper affection than they dare to give to any other being. They would sooner lose father and mother than part with Christ. They hold all earthly comforts with a loose hand, but they carry Him locked tight in their…
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AUGUST 6 May the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen! (Psalm 72:19) This is a large petition. To intercede for a whole city needs a stretch of faith, and there are times when praying for one man is more than we can handle. But how far-reaching was the psalmist’s dying intercession!…
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August 5MORNING And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good. (Romans 8:28) Upon some points a believer is absolutely sure. He knows, for instance, that God sits in the stern-sheets of the vessel when it rocks most. He believes that an invisible hand is always on the world’s tiller,…
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AUGUST 4 The people who know their God shall stand firm. Daniel 11:32 Every believer understands that to know God is the highest and best form of knowledge; and this spiritual knowledge is a source of strength to the Christian. It strengthens his faith. Believers are constantly referred to in the Bible as people who are…
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AUGUST 3 As Jesus went, the people pressed around him. (Luke 8:42) Jesus is passing through the crowd heading for the house of Jairus, so that he might raise the ruler’s dead daughter. He is so extravagant in His goodness that He works another miracle on His way there. It is enough for most of…
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