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Evening, December 21 Scripture: “I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.”(Ezekiel 16:10) See with what matchless generosity the Lord provides for his people’s apparel. They are so arrayed that the divine skill is seen producing […] Evening, December 20 Scripture: “Call thy labourers, and give them their hire.”(Matthew 20:8) God is a good paymaster; he pays his servants while at work as well as when they have done it; and one of his payments is this: an easy conscience. If you have spoken faithfully of Jesus to one person, when you […] Evening, December 19 Scripture: “And there was no more sea.”(Revelation 21:1) Scarcely could we rejoice at the thought of losing the glorious old ocean: the new heavens and the new earth are none the fairer to our imagination, if, indeed, literally there is to be no great and wide sea, with its gleaming waves and […] Evening, December 18 Scripture: “Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.”(Proverbs 27:23) Every wise merchant will occasionally hold a stock-taking, when he will cast up his accounts, examine what he has on hand, and ascertain decisively whether his trade is prosperous or declining. Every man who […] Evening, December 17 Scripture: “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”(John 10:9) Jesus, the great I AM, is the entrance into the true church, and the way of access to God himself. He gives to the man who […] |
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