November 21 “Roll on Jehovah thy way.” (Psalm 37:6, margin.) WHATEVER it is that presses thee, go tell the Father; put the whole matter over into His hand, and so shalt thou be freed from that dividing, perplexing care that the world is full of. When thou art either toRead More …

November 20 “Blessed is he that waiteth.” (Dan. 12:2.) IT may seem an easy thing to wait, but it is one of the postures which a Christian soldier learns not without years of teaching. Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God’s warriors than standing still. There are hours ofRead More …

November 19 “Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, wilt quicken us again.” (Psalm 71:20, R. V.) GOD shows us the troubles. Sometimes, as this part of our education is being carried forward, we have to descend into “the lower parts of the earth,” pass through subterranean passages,Read More …

November 18 “Blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.” (Luke 7:23.) IT is sometimes very difficult not to be offended in Jesus Christ. The offenses may be circumstantial. I find myself in a prison-house—a narrow sphere, a sick chamber, an unpopular position—when I had hoped for wideRead More …

November 17 “Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.” (Luke 18:6, 7.) GOD’S seasons are not at your beck. If theRead More …

November 16 “They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb… and they loved not their lives unto the death.” (Rev. 12:11.) WHEN James and John came to Christ with their mother, asking Him to give them the best place in the kingdom, He did not refuse their request, butRead More …

November 15 “Pressed out of measure.” (2 Cor. 1:8.) “That the power of Christ may rest upon me.” (2 Cor. 12:9.) GOD allowed the crisis to close around Jacob on the night when he bowed at Peniel in supplication, to bring him to the place where he could take holdRead More …

November 14 “Except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it remains a single grain, but if it dies away in the ground, the grain is freed to spring up in a plant bearing many grains.” (John 12:24.) GO to the old burying ground of Northampton, Mass.,Read More …

November 13 “I know him, that he will command his children.” (Gen. 18:19.) GOD wants people that He can depend upon. He could say of Abraham, “I know him, that he will command his children… that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken.” God can beRead More …

November 12 “These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.” (1 Chron. 4:23.) ANYWHERE and everywhere we may dwell “with the king for his work.” We may be in a very unlikely and unfavorable place for this;Read More …