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April 28

"My soul follows hard after you." Psalm 63:8 The Lord (we speak with reverence) does not allow himself at first to be overtaken. The more the soul follows after him, the more he seems to withdraw himself, and thus he draws it more earnestly on the pursuit. He means to be overtaken in the end--it is ... Read More
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April 29

"Why should any living man complain when punished for his sins? Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord." –Lamentations 3:39, 40 I believe in my conscience there are thousands of professors who have never known in the whole course of their religious profession what it is... Read More
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April 3

"Without holiness no man shall see the Lord." –Hebrews 12:14 To possess this holiness is a necessary and indispensable fitness for the inheritance of the saints in light; but this fitness must be wrought in us by the power of God's grace, for I am sure that in ourselves of it we have none. But see i... Read More
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April 30

"Lead me in your truth, and teach me." –Psalm 25:5 What wonderful things does God sometimes show us in his word! How our eyes sometimes seem to be anointed with eye-salve "to behold wondrous things out of God's law!" (Psalm 119:18.) Sometimes in reading a chapter we see such beauty, such fullness, s... Read More
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April 4

"And when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples." –Mark 4:34 What is the exact meaning of the word "disciple"? It means "a learner", one who is under a teacher, whose submissive and devoted pupil he has become, and from whom he receives continual instruction. And thus a disciple ... Read More
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April 5

"To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna." –Revelation 2:17 How often God's word is to you a sealed book; how often you hear from the pulpit the most encouraging preaching, yet get no encouragement from it; how often you hear Christ held forth in his Person, blood and righteousn... Read More
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April 6

"I will also give him a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to him who receives it." –Revelation 2:17 In ancient times they used to decide cases by white and black stones. The judges (for they were rather judges than jury) did not give their verdict upon the prisoner by oral testim... Read More
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April 7

"I will be as the dew unto Israel." –Hosea 14:5 Sometimes the Lord, without applying his word with any very great and distinguishing power to the heart, makes his truth to drop with a measure of sweetness into the soul. This is as rain or dew, according to his own gracious declaration, "My teaching ... Read More
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April 8

"If you were of the world, the world would love his own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you." –John 15:19 If you walk in the fear of God, and follow in the footsteps of a persecuted and despised Jesus, the world will hate and d... Read More
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April 9

"Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved--for you are my praise." –Jeremiah 17:14 If we feel that we have ruined our own souls, that no human arm can save us, that we cannot bring salvation into our own consciences, nor of ourselves see any beauty, glory, sweetness, or ... Read More
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August 1

"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death." Romans 8:2 We by nature and practice are slaves to sin and Satan. We are the sport of the prince of the power of the air, who takes us captive at his will. We are held down also by many hurtful lusts;... Read More
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August 10

"Having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." 1 Timothy 4:8 True religion lies deep; it is not a balloon hovering over us miles up in the air. It is like truth--it lies at the bottom of the well. We must go down, then, into religion, if we are to have it really in our heart... Read More
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August 11

"That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us." Hebrews 6:18 If ever there was in your experience a season never to be forgotten of alarm, of fear, of terror, of guilt, of... Read More
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August 12

"My soul faints for your salvation--but I hope in your word." Psalm 119:81 How difficult, for the most part, it is, and we may add, how rare to be able to realize for ourselves, with any degree of abiding permanency, a sweet experimental sense of, and an assured interest in, those spiritual blessing... Read More
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August 13

"The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God." Romans 8:16 You may not perhaps, for the most part, enjoy a strong or clear assurance of your interest in Christ; you may be frequently much exercised whether you are a child of God; and yet you may at times have ha... Read More
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August 14

"And if children, then heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." Romans 8:17 O the blessedness of being a child of God! Can heart conceive or tongue express the heights and depths of grace and glory, the safety, the ha... Read More
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August 15

"O that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his dwelling! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments." Job 23:3, 4 Was not Job in the same spot where we often are? If this aged patriarch had not known what it was to be shut up in his mind, harassed and d... Read More
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August 16

"You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive; you have received gifts for men; yes, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them." Psalm 68:18 What a painful thing it is to be rebellious! There is hardly any feeling worse than rebellion to a man whose conscience is... Read More
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August 17

"If a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully." 2 Timothy 2:5 In other words, it is not a bare striving, but a striving according to certain rules. But these rules are spiritual rules; and being spiritual rules, exclude everything of sense, reason, and nature.... Read More
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August 18

"And this is the record, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." 1 John 5:11 How often we are looking and looking in vain for life in ourselves. True it is that if God has quickened our souls we are partakers of life divine, of life spiritual, of life eternal, of the lif... Read More

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