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Evening, December 11 Scripture: “Ye serve the Lord Christ.”(Colossians 3:24) To what choice order of officials was this word spoken? To kings who proudly boast a right divine? Ah, no! too often do they serve themselves or Satan, and forget the God whose sufferance permits them to wear their mimic majesty for their little hour. […] Evening, December 10 Scripture: “Whose heart the Lord opened.”(Acts 16:14) In Lydia’s conversion there are many points of interest. It was brought about by providential circumstances. She was a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, but just at the right time for hearing Paul we find her at Philippi; providence, which is the […] Evening, December 9 Scripture: “My people shall dwell in quiet resting places.”(Isaiah 32:18) Peace and rest belong not to the unregenerate, they are the peculiar possession of the Lord’s people, and of them only. The God of Peace gives perfect peace to those whose hearts are stayed upon him. When man was unfallen, his God […] Evening, December 8 Scripture: “Thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.”(Psalm 68:10) All God’s gifts are prepared gifts laid up in store for wants foreseen. He anticipates our needs; and out of the fulness which he has treasured up in Christ Jesus, he provides of his goodness for the […] Evening, December 7 Scripture: “I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.”(1 Corinthians 9:22) Paul’s great object was not merely to instruct and to improve, but to save. Anything short of this would have disappointed him; he would have men renewed in heart, forgiven, sanctified, […] |
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