JULY 11 After you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace … will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. 1 Peter 5:10 You have seen the arch of heaven as it spans the plain: Glorious are its colors, and rare its hues. It is beautiful, but, sadly, it passes away, and…
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JULY 8 Tell me where your great strength lies. (Judges 16:6) Where does the secret strength of faith lie? It lies in the food it feeds on; for faith studies what the promise is-an emanation of divine grace, an overflowing of the great heart of God. And faith says, “My God could not have given…
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JULY 5 Called to be saints. (Romans 1:7) We are very apt to regard the apostolic saints as if they were “saints” in a more special manner than the other children of God. All are “saints” whom God has called by His grace and sanctified by His Spirit; but we are apt to look upon…
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JULY 4 Sanctify them in the truth. (John 17:17) Sanctification begins in regeneration. The Spirit of God implants in man that new living principle by which he becomes “a new creation”1 in Christ Jesus. This work, which begins in the new birth, is carried on in two ways – mortification, whereby the lusts of the flesh…
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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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