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August 26 Are You Ever Disturbed? “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you.” John 14:27 There are times when our peace is based upon ignorance, but when we awaken to the facts of life, inner peace is impossible unless it is received from Jesus. When Our Lord speaks peace, He […] Evening, August 26 Scripture: “The people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him.”(Mark 9:15) How great the difference between Moses and Jesus! When the prophet of Horeb had been forty days upon the mountain, he underwent a kind of transfiguration, so that his countenance shone with exceeding brightness, and […] Morning “He hath commanded his covenant forever.” Psalms 111:9 The Lord’s people delight in the covenant itself. It is an unfailing source of consolation to them so often as the Holy Spirit leads them into its banqueting house and waves its banner of love. They delight to contemplate the antiquity of that covenant, remembering that […] He of Tender Conscience I will judge between cattle and cattle. (Ezekiel 34:22) Some are fat and flourishing, and therefore they are unkind to the feeble. This is a grievous sin and causes much sorrow. Those thrustings with side and with shoulder, those pushings of the diseased with the horn, are a sad […] August 26 He Answered Nothing “He answered nothing” (Mark 15:3). There is no spectacle in all the Bible so sublime as the silent Savior answering not a word to the men who were maligning Him, and whom He could have laid prostrate at His feet by one look of Divine power, or one word of […] |
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