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Motives
Motives Jesus answered him, “What do you want Me to do for you?”—Mark 10:51 It is hard to believe that the Lord would ask us what He could do for us. However, sometimes that is the question we must answer. Bartimaeus was blind, and he knew exactly what he wantedRead More …
Daily Help
Our Lord Jesus, by his death, did not purchase a right to a part of us only, but to the entire man. He contemplated in his passion the sanctification of us wholly, spirit, soul, and body. It is the business of the new-born nature which God has given to theRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.” (Psalm 107:23, 24.) HE is but an apprentice and no master in the art, who has not learned that every wind thatRead More …
A Ministry of Reconciliation
A Ministry of Reconciliation Now everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. . . —2 Corinthians 5:18 The world abounds with people whose sin has alienated them from God. Christ’s sacrificial work has restored Christians to a love relationshipRead More …
Daily Help
How independent of outward circumstances the Holy Ghost can make the Christian! What a bright light may shine within us when it is all dark without! How firm, how happy, how calm, how peaceful we may be, when the world shakes to and fro, and the pillars of the earthRead More …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour
Ye serve the Lord Christ. Col. 3:24. Our business as Christians is to serve the Lord in every business of life. —Mark Guy Pearse Thoughts for the Quiet Hour.
Streams in the Desert
“And he went out carrying his own cross.” (John 19:17.) THERE is a poem called “The Changed Cross.” It represents a weary one who thought that her cross was surely heavier than those of others whom she saw about her, and she wished that she might choose another instead ofRead More …
The Judgment Seat
The Judgment Seat For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the body, whether good or bad.—2 Corinthians 5:10 There are many motivations in the Christian’s life. One is our awareness that one day weRead More …
Daily Help
We are so little, that if God should manifest his greatness without condescension, we should be trampled under his feet; but God, who must stoop to view the skies, and bow to see what angels do, turns his eye yet lower, and looks to the lowly and contrite, and makesRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“There he proved them.” (Exod. 15:25.) I STOOD once in the test room of a great steel mill. All around me were little partitions and compartments. Steel had been tested to the limit, and marked with figures that showed its breaking point. Some pieces had been twisted until they broke,Read More …
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