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January 8 Does My Sacrifice Live? “And Abraham built an altar . . and bound Isaac his son.” Genesis 22:9 This incident is a picture of the blunder we make in thinking that the final thing God wants of us is the sacrifice of death. What God wants is the sacrifice through death which enables […] Morning, January 8 Scripture: “The iniquity of the holy things.”(Exodus 28:38) What a veil is lifted up by these words, and what a disclosure is made! It will be humbling and profitable for us to pause awhile and see this sad sight. The iniquities of our public worship, its hypocrisy, formality, lukewarmness, irreverence, wandering […] Purity of Heart and Life Scripture: “Blessed are the are pure in heart: for they shall see God”(Matthew 5:8). Purity, even purity of heart, is the main thing to be aimed at. We need to be made clean within through the Spirit and the Word, and then we shall be clean without by […] Evening, January 8 Scripture: “Thy love is better than wine.”(Song of Solomon 1:2) Nothing gives the believer so much joy as fellowship with Christ. He has enjoyment as others have in the common mercies of life, he can be glad both in God’s gifts and God’s works; but in all these separately, yea, […] January 8 Delayed Blessings “For the Vision is yet for an appointed time…though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry” (Hab. 2:3). In the charming little booklet, Expectation Corner, Adam Slowman was led into the Lord’s treasure houses, and among many other wonders there revealed […] |
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