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December 31 Yesterday “The God of Israel will be your rereward.” Isaiah 52:12 Security from Yesterday. “God requireth that which is past.” At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise from remembering the yesterdays. Our present enjoyment of […] Morning, December 31 “In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.” John 7:37 Patience had her perfect work in the Lord Jesus, and until the last day of the feast he pleaded with the Jews, even as […] No Stranger in Heaven Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. (Psalm 73:24) From day to day and from year to year my faith believes in the wisdom and love of God, and I know that I shall not believe in vain. No good word of His has ever […] Evening, December 31 Scripture: “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”(Jeremiah 8:20) Not saved! Dear reader, is this your mournful plight? Warned of the judgment to come, bidden to escape for your life, and yet at this moment not saved! You know the way of salvation, you read it […] December 31 Waiting For Resurrection “And there was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre” (Matt. 27:61). How strangely stupid is grief. It neither learns nor knows nor wishes to learn or know. When the sor rowing sisters sat over against the door of God’s sepulchre, did they […] |
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