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Tender Comfort Scripture: “As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you”(Isaiah 66:13). A mother’s comfort! Ah, this is tenderness itself. How she enters into her child’s grief! How she presses him to her bosom and tries to take all his sorrow into her own heart! He can tell her all, […] Obedience “His servants ye are to whom ye obey.” Romans 6:16 The first thing to do in examining the power that dominates me is to take hold of the unwelcome fact that I am responsible for being thus dominated. If I am a slave to myself, I am to blame because at a point away […] Morning, March 14 Scripture: “Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.”(1 Corinthians 10:12) It is a curious fact, that there is such a thing as being proud of grace. A man says, “I have great faith, I shall not fall; poor little faith may, but I never shall.” “I have […] Evening, March 14 Scripture: “I will take heed to my ways.”(Psalm 39:1) Fellow-pilgrim, say not in your heart, “I will go hither and thither, and I shall not sin;” for you are never so out of danger of sinning as to boast of security. The road is very miry, it will be hard […] March 14 Wait Quietly “And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise” (Heb. 6:15). Abraham was long tried, but he was richly rewarded. The Lord tried him by delaying to fulfill His promise. Satan tried him by temptation; men tried him by jealousy, distrust, and opposition; Sarah tried him […] |
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