“The hill country shall be thine.” (Josh. 17:18, R. V.) THERE is always room higher up. When the valleys are full of Canaanites, whose iron chariots withstand your progress, get up into the hills, occupy the upper spaces. If you can no longer work for God, pray for those whoRead More …

“Your heavenly Father knoweth.” (Matt. 6:32.) A VISITOR at a school for the deaf and dumb was writing questions on the blackboard for the children. By and by he wrote this sentence: “Why has God made me to hear and speak, and made you deaf and dumb?” The awful sentenceRead More …

“As soon as the soles of the feet of the priests… shall rest in the waters… the waters shall be cut off.” (Joshua 3:13.) THE people were not to wait in their camps until the way was opened, they were to walk by faith. They were to break camp, packRead More …

“Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves.” (Rom. 12:19.) THERE are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act. Composure is often the highest result of power. To the vilest and most deadly charges Jesus responded with deep, unbroken silence, such as excited the wonder of the judgeRead More …

“He answered her not a word.” (Matt. 15:23.) “He will be silent in his love.” (Zeph. 3:17.) IT may be a child of God is reading these words who has had some great crushing sorrow, some bitter disappointment, some heart-breaking blow from a totally unexpected quarter. You are longing forRead More …

“Lo, I am with you all the appointed days.” (Matt. 28:20.) (Variorum Version.) DO not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear. Rather look at them with full hope that, as they arise, God, whose you are, will deliver you out of them. He hasRead More …

“Why art thou cast down, O my soul.” (Psalm 43:5.) IS there ever any ground to be cast down? There are two reasons, but only two. If we are as yet unconverted, we have ground to be cast down; or if we have been converted and live in sin, thenRead More …

“He turned the sea into dry land; they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.” (Psalm 66:6.) IT is a striking assertion, “through the floods” (the place where we might have expected nothing but trembling and terror, anguish and dismay) “there,” says the Psalmist, “didRead More …

“Ye shall not go out with haste.” (Isa. 52:12.) I DO not believe that we have begun to understand the marvelous power there is in stillness. We are in such a hurry—we must be doing—so that we are in danger of not giving God a chance to work. You mayRead More …

“I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth.” (Isa. 58:14.), THOSE who fly through the air in airships tell us that one of the first rules they learn is to turn their ship toward the wind, and fly against it. The wind lifts the shipRead More …