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Evening, January 10 Scripture: “In my flesh shall I see God.”(Job 19:26) Mark the subject of Job’s devout anticipation “I shall see God.” He does not say, “I shall see the saints”—though doubtless that will be untold felicity—but, “I shall see God.” It is not—“I shall see the pearly gates, I shall behold […] Evening, January 9 Scripture: “Serve the Lord with gladness.”(Psalm 100:2) Delight in divine service is a token of acceptance. Those who serve God with a sad countenance, because they do what is unpleasant to them, are not serving him at all; they bring the form of homage, but the life is absent. Our God […] Evening, January 8 Scripture: “Thy love is better than wine.”(Song of Solomon 1:2) Nothing gives the believer so much joy as fellowship with Christ. He has enjoyment as others have in the common mercies of life, he can be glad both in God’s gifts and God’s works; but in all these separately, yea, […] Evening, January 7 Scripture: “My sister, my spouse.”(Song of Solomon 4:12) Observe the sweet titles with which the heavenly Solomon with intense affection addresses his bride the church. “My sister, one near to me by ties of nature, partaker of the same sympathies. My spouse, nearest and dearest, united to me by the […] Evening, January 6 Scripture: “Now the hand of the Lord was upon me in the evening.”(Ezekiel 33:22) In the way of judgment this may be the case, and, if so, be it mine to consider the reason of such a visitation, and bear the rod and him that hath appointed it. I am […] |
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