July 4 “For the vision is yet for an appointed time… though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.” (Hab. 2:3.) IN the charming little booklet, Expectation Corner, Adam Slowman was led into the Lord’s treasure houses, and among many other wonders thereRead More …

July 3 “Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?” (Isa. 28:24.) ONE day in early summer I walked past a beautiful meadow. The grass was as soft and thick and fine as an immense green Oriental rug. In one corner stood a fine old tree, a sanctuary for numberlessRead More …

July 2 “When thou goest, thy way shall be opened up before thee step by step.” (Proverbs 4:12, free translation.) THE Lord never builds a bridge of faith except under the feet of the faith-filled traveler. If He builds the bridge a rod ahead, it would not be a bridgeRead More …

July 1 “There shall be a performance.” (Luke 1:45.) “My words shall be fulfilled in their season” (their fixed appointed time). (Greek, Luke 1:20.)   There shall be a performance of those things That loving heart hath waited long to see; Those words shall be fulfilled to which she clings,Read More …

June 30 “There was silence, and I heard a still voice.” (Job 4:16, margin.) A SCORE of years ago, a friend placed in my hand a book called True Peace. It was an old mediaeval message, and it had but one thought—that God was waiting in the depths of myRead More …

June 29 “There we saw the giants.” (Num. 13:33.) YES, they saw the giants, but Caleb and Joshua saw God! Those who doubt say, “We be not able to go up.” Those who believe say, “Let us go up at once and possess it, for we are well able.” GiantsRead More …

June 28 “A door opened in heaven.” (Rev. 4:1.) YOU must remember that John was in the Isle of Patmos, a lone, rocky, inhospitable prison, for the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus. And yet to him, under such circumstances, separated from all the loved ones of Ephesus;Read More …

June 27 “The Lord hath sent strength for thee.” (Psa. 68.28, P. B. V.) THE Lord imparts unto us that primary strength of Character which makes everything in life work with intensity and decision. We are “strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man.” And the strength isRead More …

“For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?” (Rom. 3:3.) I THINK that I can trace every scrap of sorrow in my life to simple unbelief. How could I be anything but quite happy if I believed always that all theRead More …

“Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.” (Exod. 14:15.) IMAGINE, O child of God, if you can, that triumphal march! The excited children restrained from ejaculations of wonder by the perpetual hush of their parents; the most uncontrollable excitement of the women as they found themselves suddenlyRead More …