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Evening, December 6 Scripture: “Girt about the paps with a golden girdle.”(Revelation 1:13) “One like unto the Son of Man” appeared to John in Patmos, and the beloved disciple marked that he wore a girdle of gold. A girdle, for Jesus never was ungirt while upon earth, but stood always ready for service, […] Evening, December 5 Scripture: “And the Lord shewed me four carpenters.”(Zechariah 1:20) In the vision described in this chapter, the prophet saw four terrible horns. They were pushing this way and that way, dashing down the strongest and the mightiest; and the prophet asked, “What are these?” The answer was, “These are the horns which […] Evening, December 4 Scripture: “Even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”(Romans 8:23) This groaning is universal among the saints: to a greater or less extent we all feel it. It is not the groan of murmuring or complaint: it is rather the note of desire […] Evening, December 3 Scripture: “The Lord mighty in battle.”(Psalm 24:8) Well may our God be glorious in the eyes of his people, seeing that he has wrought such wonders for them, in them, and by them. For them, the Lord Jesus upon Calvary routed every foe, breaking all the weapons of the enemy in pieces […] Evening, December 2 Scripture: “Behold, all is vanity.”(Ecclesiastes 1:14) Nothing can satisfy the entire man but the Lord’s love and the Lord’s own self. Saints have tried to anchor in other roadsteads, but they have been driven out of such fatal refuges. Solomon, the wisest of men, was permitted to make experiments for us all, […] |
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