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June 4 Thy Rod and Thy Staff “Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me” (Ps. 23:4). At my father’s house in the country there is a little closet in the chimney corner where are kept the canes and walking-sticks of several generations of our family. In my visits to the old house, when my […] June 3 Evidence of His Love “But the dove found no rest for or the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him…And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf” (Gen. 8:9-11). God knows just when to withhold from us any visible sign […] June 2 A Very Present Help “Why standest thou afar off, O Lord?” (Psalm 10:1.) God is “a very present help in trouble.” But He permits trouble to pursue us, as though He were indifferent to its overwhelming pressure, that we may be brought to the end of ourselves, and led to discover the treasure […] June 1 He Has Overcome the World “None of these things move me” (Acts 20:24). We read in the book of Samuel that the moment that David was crowned at Hebron, “All the Philistines came up to seek David.” And the moment we get anything from the Lord worth contending for, then the devil comes […] May 31 In God, Not Out of Trouble “And seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest” (Jer. 45:5). A promise given for hard places, […] |
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