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August 13 Tempered and Tried “Followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises” (Heb. 6:12). They (heroes of faith) are calling to us from the heights that they have won, and telling us that what man once did man can do again. Not only do they remind us of the necessity of […] August 12 The Price of Freedom “And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him” (Mark 9:26). Evil never surrenders its hold without a sore fight. We never pass into any spiritual inheritance through the delightful exercises of a picnic, but always through the grim contentions of the battle field. It […] August 11 Meet Him in the Morning “Be ready in the morning, and come u …present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. And no man shall come up with thee” (Exod. 34:2-3). The morning watch is essential. You must not face the day until you have faced God, nor look into […] August 10 Making Straight the Crooked “Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked” (Eccles. 7:13). Often God seems to place His children in positions of profound difficulty, leading them into a wedge from which there is no escape; contriving a situation which no human judgment would […] August 9 Into the Deep “Launch out into the deep” (Luke 5:4). How deep He does not say. The depth into which we launch will depend upon how perfectly we have given up the shore, and the greatness of our need, and the apprehension of our possibilities. The fish were to be found in the […] |
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