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Morning, February 4 Scripture: “The love of the Lord.”(Hosea 3:1) Believer, look back through all thine experience, and think of the way whereby the Lord thy God has led thee in the wilderness, and how he hath fed and clothed thee every day—how he hath borne with thine ill manners—how he hath put up […] Morning, February 3 Scripture: “Therefore, brethren, we are debtors.”(Romans 8:12) As God’s creatures, we are all debtors to him: to obey him with all our body, and soul, and strength. Having broken his commandments, as we all have, we are debtors to his justice, and we owe to him a vast amount which we […] Morning, February 2 Scripture: “Without the shedding of blood is no remission.”(Hebrews 9:22) This is the voice of unalterable truth. In none of the Jewish ceremonies were sins, even typically, removed without blood-shedding. In no case, by no means can sin be pardoned without atonement. It is clear, then, that there is no hope […] Morning, February 1 Scripture: “They shall sing in the ways of the Lord.”(Psalm 138:5) The time when Christians begin to sing in the ways of the Lord is when they first lose their burden at the foot of the Cross. Not even the songs of the angels seem so sweet as the first song […] Morning, January 31 “The Lord our Righteousness.”(Jeremiah 23:6) It will always give a Christian the greatest calm, quiet, ease, and peace, to think of the perfect righteousness of Christ. How often are the saints of God downcast and sad! I do not think they ought to be. I do not think they would if they […] |
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