“In the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.” (Gen. 17:23.) INSTANT obedience is the only kind of obedience there is; delayed obedience is disobedience. Every time God calls us to any duty, He is offering to make a covenant with us; doing the duty is our part, andRead More …

“We know not what we should pray for as we ought.” (Rom. 8:26.) MUCH that perplexes us in our Christian experience is but the answer to our prayers. We pray for patience, and our Father sends those who tax us to the utmost; for “tribulation worketh ‘patience.” We pray forRead More …

“All things are possible to him that believeth.” (Mark 9:23.) THE “all things” do not always come simply for the asking, for the reason that God is ever seeking to teach us the way of faith, and in our training in the faith life there must be room for theRead More …

“We went through fire and through water; but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.” (Psa. 66:12.) PARADOXICAL though it be, only that man is at rest who attains it through conflict. This peace, born of conflict, is not like the deadly hush preceding the tempest, but the sereneRead More …

“I had fainted unless…!” (Psalm 27:13.) “faint not!” HOW great is the temptation at this point! How the soul sinks, the heart grows sick, and the faith staggers under the keen trials and testings which come into our lives in times of special bereavement and suffering. “I cannot bear upRead More …

“Abraham stood yet before the Lord.” (Gen. 18:22.) THE friend of God can plead with Him for others. Perhaps Abraham’s height of faith and friendship seems beyond our little possibilities. Do not be discouraged, Abraham grew; so may we. He went step by step, not by great leaps. The manRead More …

“Walking in the midst of the fire.” (Daniel 3:25.) THE fire did not arrest their motion; they walked in the midst of it. It was one of the streets through which they moved to their destiny. The comfort of Christ’s revelation is not that it teaches emancipation from sorrow, butRead More …

“He spake a parable unto them… that men ought always to pray, and not to faint.” (Luke 18:1.) NO temptation in the life of intercession is more common than this of failure to persevere. We begin to pray for a certain thing; we put up our petitions for a day,Read More …

“The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him.” (Psa. 25:14.) THERE are secrets of Providence which God’s dear children may learn. His dealings with them often seem, to the outward eye, dark and terrible. Faith looks deeper and says, “This is God’s secret. You look only onRead More …

“When they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushments… and they were smitten.” (2 Chron. 20:22.) OH, that we could reason less about our troubles, and sing and praise more! There are thousands of things that we wear as shackles which we might use as instruments with musicRead More …