Verse 20
"Handfuls of Purpose"
For All Gleaners
"And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh." Exodus 8:20 .
God is always before men. However early we rise, God is waiting for us. The Lamb was slain from before the foundation of the world. We never can surprise God by a new necessity, or baffle him by the agony of an unexpected pain. The Church should take a lesson from this consideration. It should watch the movements of men, and always be ahead of them and waiting for them, and surprise them by Christian appeals where such appeals are least expected. The Church cannot begin its labours too early in the day. The message from Heaven is always in time and in place. Every engagement of life may be legitimately interrupted by the direct messages of Heaven. The Church has been too particular in studying the convenience of the persons to whom it has been sent in the name of Heaven. Interrupt everything, that the Gospel may be delivered. Have no fear of the greatest; whatever his importance in life it is transcended by the importance of messages that are sent by God himself.
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