NOVEMBER 26 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might.(Ecclesiastes 9:10) “Whatever your hand finds to do” refers to works that are possible. There are many things that our heart finds to do that we will never do. It is good for it to be in our heart; but if we would…

November 25 … To proclaim liberty to the captives. (Luke 4:18) No one but Jesus can give deliverance to captives. Real liberty comes from Him alone. It is a liberty rightly granted; for the Son, who is Heir of all things, has a right to make men free. The saints honor God’s justice, which now secures…

NOVEMBER 24 But there the Lord in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams.(Isaiah 33:21) “Broad rivers and streams” produce fertility and abundance in the land. Places near broad rivers are remarkable for the variety of their plants and their plentiful harvests. God is all this to His Church. Having…

NOVEMBER 22 Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.(Hosea 12:12) In conversation with Laban, Jacob described what he had done: “These twenty years I have been with you. . . . What was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you. I bore the loss of it myself….

NOVEMBER 21 Do not grieve the Holy Spirit.(Ephesians 4:30) All that the believer has must come from Christ, but it comes solely through the channel of the Spirit of grace. Just as all blessings flow to you through the Holy Spirit, so also no good thing can come out of you in holy thought, devout…

NOVEMBER 20 You have taken up my cause, O Lord; you have redeemed my life.(Lamentations 3:58) Observe how positively the prophet speaks. He does not say, “I hope, I trust, I sometimes think that God has taken up my cause”; instead, he speaks of it as a matter of fact that is not to be…

NOVEMBER 19 Avoid foolish controversies.(Titus 3:9) Our days are few and far better spent doing good than disputing over matters that are, at best, of minor importance. The old scholars did a world of mischief by incessantly discussing subjects of no practical importance, and our churches suffer too often from petty wars over obscure points…

NOVEMBER 18 A spring locked, a fountain sealed.(Song of Songs 4:12) In this metaphor, which has reference to the inner life of a believer, we have very plainly the idea of secrecy. It is “a spring locked.” Just as there were springs in the East over which an edifice was built, so that no one…

November 14And I will cut off from this place … Those who bow down and swear to the Lord and yet swear by Milcom.(Zephaniah 1:4-5) These people thought they were safe because they were with both parties: they went with the followers of Jehovah and bowed at the same time to Milcom. But duplicity is…

NOVEMBER 13 The branch cannot bear fruit by itself.(John 15:4) How did you begin to bear fruit? It was when you came to Jesus, cast yourself on His great atonement, and rested on His finished righteousness. What fruit you had then! Do you remember those early days? Then the vine flourished, the tender grape appeared,…