“But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him…. And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf.” (Gen. 8:9-11.) GOD knows just when to withhold from us any visible sign ofRead More …

“Why standest thou afar off, O Lord?” (Psalm 10:1.) GOD is “a very present help in trouble.” But He permits trouble to pursue us, as though He were indifferent to its overwhelming pressure, that we may be brought to the end of ourselves, and led to discover the treasure ofRead More …

“Into a desert place apart.” (Matt. 14:13.) THERE is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it.” In our whole life-melody the music is broken off here and there by “rests,” and we foolishly think we have come to the end of the tune.Read More …

“None of these things move me.” (Acts 20:24.) WE read in the book of Samuel that the moment that David was crowned at Hebron, “All the Philistines came up to seek David.” And the moment we get anything from the Lord worth contending for, then the devil comes to seekRead More …

“Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.” (Eccles. 7:3.) WHEN sorrow comes under the power of Divine grace, it works out a manifold ministry in our lives. Sorrow reveals unknown depths in the soul, and unknown capabilities of experience andRead More …

“Men ought always to pray and not to faint.” (Luke 18:1.) “GO to the ant.” Tammerlane used to relate to his friends an anecdote of his early life. “I once,” he said, “was forced to take shelter from my enemies in a ruined building, where I sat alone many hours.Read More …

“Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ.” (2 Cor. 2:14.) GOD gets His greatest victories out of apparent defeats. Very often the enemy seems to triumph for a little, and God lets it be so; but then He comes in and upsets all theRead More …

“O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee.” (Dan. 6:20.) HOW many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is just this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight of. We know itRead More …

January 16 “And there arose a great storm.” (Mark 4:37.) SOME of the storms of life come suddenly, a great sorrow, a bitter disappointment, a crushing defeat. Some come slowly. They appear upon the ragged edges of the horizon no larger than a man’s hand, but, trouble that seems soRead More …

“And the Lord appeared unto Isaac the same night.” (Gen. 26:24.) APPEARED the same night,” the night on which he went to Beersheba. Do you think this revelation was an accident? Do you think the time of it was an accident? Do you think it could have happened on anyRead More …