“Sarah bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.” (Gen. 21:2.) THE counsel of the Lord standeth forever, the thoughts of His heart to all generations” (Psalm 33:11). But we must be prepared to wait God’s time. God hasRead More …

“At their wit’s end, they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out.” (Psalm 107:27, 28.)   Are you standing at “Wit’s End Corner,” Christian, with troubled brow? Are you thinking of what is before you, And all you are bearing now? Does all the worldRead More …

“He worketh.” (Psalm 37:5.) THE translation that we find in Young of “Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass,” reads: “Roll upon Jehovah thy way; trust upon him: and he worketh.” It calls our attention to the immediate action ofRead More …

“I call to remembrance my song in the night.” (Psalm 77:6.) I HAVE read somewhere of a little bird that will never sing the melody his master wishes while his cage is full of light. He learns a snatch of this, a bar of that, but never an entire songRead More …

“Shall I refuse to drink the cup of sorrow which the Father has given me to drink?” (John 18:11.) (Weymouth.) GOD takes a thousand times more pains with us than the artist with his picture, by many touches of sorrow, and by many colors of circumstance, to bring us intoRead More …

And it came to pass, before he had done speaking… and he said, Blessed be Jehovah… who hath not forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth.” (Gen. 24:15, 27.) EVERY right prayer is answered before the prayer itself is finished—before we have “done speaking.” This is because God has pledged HisRead More …

“I was crushed… so much so that I despaired even of life, but that was to make me rely not on myself, but on the God who raises the dead.” (2 Cor. 1:8, 9.)   “Pressed out of measure and pressed to all length; Pressed so intensely it seems, beyondRead More …

“And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness… an angel of the Lord… saying,… now come, I will send thee into Egypt.” (Acts 7:30-34.) OFTEN the Lord calls us aside from our work for a season, and bids us be still and learn ere weRead More …

“Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days.” (Dan. 10:12,Read More …

“Men see not the bright light which is in the clouds.” (Job 37:21.) THE world owes much of its beauty to cloudland. The unchanging blue of the Italian sky hardly compensates for the changefulness and glory of the clouds. Earth would become a wilderness apart from their ministry. There areRead More …