AUGUST 1 Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain. (Ruth 2:2) Downcast and troubled Christian, come and glean today in the broad field of promise. Here is an abundance of precious promises, which meet your needs exactly. Take this one: “A bruised reed he will not break, and a…
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JULY 31 I in them. (John 17:23) If this is the union between our souls and the person of our Lord, how deep and broad is the channel of our communion! This is no narrow channel through which a threadlike stream may wind its way; it is a river of amazing depth and breadth, along…
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JULY 30 And Peter remembered… . And he broke down and wept. (Mark 14:72) It has been thought by some that as long as Peter lived, the fountain of his tears began to flow whenever he remembered that he had denied his Lord. It is not unlikely that it was so (for his sin was…
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JULY 29 Nevertheless, I am continually with you. Psalm 73:23 “Nevertheless”—as if, notwithstanding all the foolishness and ignorance that Asaph had just been confessing to God, not one atom was it less true and certain that Asaph was saved and accepted, and that the blessing of being constantly in God’s presence was undoubtedly his. Fully…
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JULY 28 I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you. (Psalm 73:22) Remember, this is the confession of the man of God; and in telling us his inner life, he writes, “I was brutish and ignorant.” The word “brutish” conveys the extent of his wayward folly. In an earlier verse of…
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JULY 27 … Precious and very great promises. (2 Peter 1:4) If you would know experimentally [experientially] the preciousness of the promises and enjoy them in your own heart, meditate much upon them. There are promises that are like grapes in the winepress; if you will tread them, the juice will flow. Thinking over the hallowed…
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JULY 26 Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, [etc.]. 2 Peter 1:5-6 If you would enjoy the eminent grace of the full assurance of faith, under the blessed Spirit’s influence and assistance, do what the Scripture tells you: “Make every effort.” Take care that your faith is the right kind—that…
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JULY 25 He left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house. (Genesis 39:12) In contending with certain sins there remains no mode of victory but by flight. The ancient naturalists wrote much of basilisks, whose eyes fascinated their victims and rendered them easy victims; so the mere gaze of…
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JULY 24 Stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord. Exodus 14:13 These words contain God’s command to the believer when he is reduced to great straits and brought into extraordinary difficulties. He cannot retreat; he cannot go forward; he is shut up on the right hand and on the left; what is he…
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July 23 The blood of Jesus his son cleanses us from all sin. (1 John 1:7) “Cleanses,” says the text—not “shall cleanse.” There are multitudes who think that as a dying hope they may look forward to pardon. Oh, how infinitely better to have cleansing now than to depend on the bare possibility of forgiveness when…
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