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April 3 If Thou Hadst Known! “If thou hadst known . . . in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.” Luke 19:42 Jesus had entered into Jerusalem in triumph, the city was stirred to its foundations; but a strange god was there, […] Morning, April 3 Scripture: “They took Jesus, and led him away.”(John 19:16) He had been all night in agony, he had spent the early morning at the hall of Caiaphas, he had been hurried from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate; he had, therefore, but little […] Sensitive to Warning Scripture: “Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard thee, […] Evening, April 3 Scripture: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”(Isaiah 53:6) Here a confession of sin common to all the elect people of God. They have all fallen, and therefore, in common […] April 3 The Brightest Colors “It is good for me that I have been afflicted” (Ps. 119:71). It is a remarkable circumstance that the most brilliant colors of plants are to be seen on the highest mountains, in spots that are most exposed to the wildest weather. The brightest lichens and mosses, […] |
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