MAY 1 His cheeks are like beds of spices, mounds of sweet-smelling herbs. (Song of Songs 5:13) Here we are in the month when flowers come! March winds and April showers have done their work, and the earth is all dressed with beauty. Come, my soul, put on your springtime clothes and gather garlands of…
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APRIL 30 And all the people of Israel grumbled. (Numbers 14:2) There are grumblers among Christians now, just as there were in the camp of Israel of old. There are those who, when punished, cry out against the affliction. They ask, “Why am I afflicted? What have I done to be chastened in this manner?”…
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APRIL 29 You are my refuge in the day of disaster. (Jeremiah 17:17) The path of the Christian is not always bright with sunshine; he has his seasons of darkness and of storm. It is true that God’s Word says, “Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace”;1 and it is…
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APRIL 28 Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope. (Psalm 119:49) Whatever your particular need may be, you will find some promise in the Bible related to it. Are you faint and feeble because your way is rough and you are weary? Here is the promise—“He gives power to…
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APRIL 27 God, our God, shall bless us. (Psalm 67:6) It is strange how little use we make of the spiritual blessings that God gives us, but it is even stranger that we make such little use of God Himself. Though He is “our God,” we scarcely give ourselves to Him, and we ask so…
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APRIL 26 Do this in remembrance of me. (1 Corinthians 11:24) It appears that Christians may forget Christ! There would be no need for this loving exhortation if there were not a fearful possibility that our memories might prove treacherous. Nor is this an empty notion: It is, sadly too well confirmed in our experience,…
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APRIL 25 Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away. (Song of Songs 2:10) I hear the voice of my Beloved! He speaks to me! Fair weather is smiling upon the face of the earth, and He does not want me to be spiritually asleep while nature is all around me awaking from her…
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The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. (Song of Songs 2:12) The season of spring is welcome in its freshness. The long and dreary winter helps us to appreciate spring’s genial warmth, and its promise of summer enhances its…
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APRIL 23 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. (Romans 8:37) We go to Christ for forgiveness, and then too often look to the law for power to fight our sins. Paul issues this rebuke: “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? . . . Let me…
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April 22 God exalted him. (Acts 5:31) Jesus, our Lord, who once was crucified, dead, and buried, now sits upon the throne of glory. The highest place that heaven affords is His by undisputed right. It is vital and helpful to remember that the exaltation of Christ in heaven is a representative exaltation. He is…
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