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February 18 The Initiative Against Despair “Rise, let us be going.” Matthew 26:46 The disciples went to sleep when they should have kept awake, and when they realized what they had done it produced despair. The sense of the irreparable is apt to make us despair, and we say – “It is all up now, […] Morning, February 18 Scripture: “Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.”(Job 10:2) Perhaps, O tried soul, the Lord is doing this to develop thy graces. There are some of thy graces which would never be discovered if it were not for thy trials. Dost thou not know that thy faith never looks so grand […] God Will Answer Scripture: “He will fulfill the desire of them that fear Him: He also will hear their cry, and will save them”(Psalm 145:19). His own Spirit has wrought this desire in us, and therefore He will answer it. It is His own life within which prompts the cry, and therefore He […] Evening, February 18 Scripture: “Father, I have sinned.”(Luke 15:18) It is quite certain that those whom Christ has washed in his precious blood need not make a confession of sin, as culprits or criminals, before God the Judge, for Christ has for ever taken away all their sins in a legal sense, so […] February 18 Alone “So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.” (Deut. 32:12). “The hill was steep, but cheered along the way By converse sweet, I mounted on the thought That so it might be till the height was reached; But suddenly a narrow […] |
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