August 3 Thou hast made him exceeding glad with Thy countenance.—Psalm 21:6. My heart for gladness springs, It cannot more be sad, For very joy it laughs and sings, Sees nought but sunshine glad. P. GERHARDT. A new day rose upon me. It was as if another sun had risenRead More …

August 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; He also is become my salvation.—Isaiah 12:2. Why are ye so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith?—Mark. 4:40. Still heavy is thy heart?Read More …

August 1 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.—Ecclesiastes 7:9. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath —Ephesians 4:26. Quench thou the fires of hate and strife, The wasting fever of the heart; From perils guard our feebleRead More …

July 31 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee.—Isaiah 44:22. He will turn again, He will have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities; and Thou wilt cast all their sins intoRead More …

July 30 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to Thy mercy remember Thou me for Thy goodness’ sake, O Lord.—Psalm 25:7. When on my aching, burdened heart My sins lie heavily, My pardon speak, new peace impart, In love remember me. T. HAWEIS. We needRead More …

July 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short.—1 Corinthians 7:29. I sometimes feel the thread of life is slender, And soon with me the labor will be wrought; Then grows my heart to other hearts more tender. The time is short. D. M. CRAIK. Oh, my dearRead More …

July 28 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.—1 Thessalonians 4:13. Yet Love will dream, and Faith will trust (Since He who knows our need is just), That somehow, somewhere, meetRead More …

July 27 He that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.—Matthew 13:23. Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean,Read More …

July 26 They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His people from henceforth even for ever.—Psalm 125:1, 2. How on a rock they stand, WhoRead More …

July 25 He knoweth the way that I take.—Job 23:10. Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?—Proverbs 20:24. Be quiet, why this anxious heed About thy tangled ways? God knows them all, He giveth speed, And He allows delays. E. W. WeRead More …