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February 19 The Initiative Against Drudgery “Arise, shine.” Isaiah 60:1 We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not; but immediately we arise we find He is there. Whenever God inspires, the initiative is a moral one. […] Morning, February 19 Scripture: “Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them.”(Ezekiel 36:37) Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarcely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded […] Better Farther On Scripture: “Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more”(Nahum 1:12). There is a limit to affliction. God sends it, and God removes it. Do you sigh and say, “When will the end be?” Remember that our griefs will surely and finally end when this poor earthly life […] Evening, February 19 Scripture: “He first findeth his own brother Simon.”(John 1:41) This case is an excellent pattern of all cases where spiritual life is vigorous. As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others. I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel […] February 19 Joined in God “As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing” (2 Cor. 6:10). Sorrow was beautiful, but her beauty was the beauty of the moonlight shining through the leafy branches of the trees in the wood, and making little pools of silver here and there on the soft green moss below. […] |
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