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January 5 The Life of Power to Follow Jesus answered him, ’Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but you shall follow Me afterward’ —John 13:36 “And when He had spoken this, He said to him, ’Follow Me’ ” (John 21:19). Three years earlier Jesus had said, “Follow Me” (Matthew 4:19), and Peter […] Morning, January 5 Scripture: “And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.”(Genesis 1:4) Light might well be good since it sprang from that fiat of goodness, “Let there be light.” We who enjoy it should be more grateful for it than we are, and see […] A Wonderful Guarantee Scripture: “I will strengthen thee”(Isaiah 41:10). When called to serve or to suffer, we take stock of our strength, and we find it to be less than we thought and less than we need. But let not our heart sink within us while we have such a word as this […] Evening, January 5 Scripture: “And God saw the light.”(Genesis 1:4) This morning we noticed the goodness of the light, and the Lord’s dividing it from the darkness, we now note the special eye which the Lord had for the light. “God saw the light”－he looked at it with complacency, gazed upon it with […] January 5 I Heard a Still Voice “There was silence, and I heard a still voice” (Job 4:16, margin). A score of years ago, a friend placed in my hand a book called True Peace. It was an old mediaeval message, and it had but one thought–that God was waiting in the […] |
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