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Evening, October 27 Scripture: “We are all as an unclean thing.”(Isaiah 64:6) The believer is a new creature, he belongs to a holy generation and a peculiar people－the Spirit of God is in him, and in all respects he is far removed from the natural man; but for all that the Christian is a sinner […] Evening, October 26 Scripture: “All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.”(Ecclesiastes 1:7) Everything sublunary is on the move, time knows nothing of rest. The solid earth is a rolling ball, and the great sun himself a star […] Evening, October 25 Scripture: “She gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.”(Ruth 2:3) Her hap was. Yes, it seemed nothing but an accident, but how divinely was it overruled! Ruth had gone forth […] Evening, October 24 Scripture: “He began to wash the disciples’ feet.”(John 13:5) The Lord Jesus loves his people so much, that every day he is still doing for them much that is analogous to washing their soiled feet. Their poorest actions he accepts; their deepest sorrow he feels; their slenderest wish he hears, and their […] Evening, October 23 Scripture: “Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.”(Luke 22:46) When is the Christian most liable to sleep? Is it not when his temporal circumstances are prosperous? Have you not found it so? When you had daily troubles to take to the throne of grace, were you not more […] |
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