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Morning, February 14 Scripture: “And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.”(2 Kings 25:30) Jehoiachin was not sent away from the king’s palace with a store to last him for months, but his provision was given him as […] Morning, February 13 Scripture: “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God.”(1 John 3:1,2) “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed […] Morning, February 12 Scripture: “For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.”(2 Corinthians 1:5) There is a blessed proportion. The Ruler of Providence bears a pair of scales—in this side he puts his people’s trials, and in that he puts their consolations. When the scale of […] Morning, February 11 Scripture: “And they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.”(Acts 4:13) A Christian should be a striking likeness of Jesus Christ. You have read lives of Christ, beautifully and eloquently written, but the best life of Christ is his living biography, written out in the words and actions […] Morning, February 10 Scripture: “I know how to abound.”(Philippians 4:12) There are many who know “how to be abased” who have not learned “how to abound.” When they are set upon the top of a pinnacle their heads grow dizzy, and they are ready to fall. The Christian far oftener disgraces his profession in […] |
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