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December 19 What To Concentrate On “I came not to send peace, but a sword.” Matthew 10:34 Never be sympathetic with the soul whose case makes you come to the conclusion that God is hard. God is more tender than we can conceive, and every now and again He gives us the chance of […] Evening, December 19 Scripture: “And there was no more sea.”(Revelation 21:1) Scarcely could we rejoice at the thought of losing the glorious old ocean: the new heavens and the new earth are none the fairer to our imagination, if, indeed, literally there is to be no great and wide sea, with its gleaming waves and […] Morning, December 19 Proverbs 16:33 The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. If the disposal of the lot is the Lord’s whose is the arrangement of our whole life? If the a simple casting of a lot is guided by Him, how much more the events […] Afflictions, But No Broken Bones He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken. (Psalm 34:20) This promise by the context is referred to the much afflicted righteous man: “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.” He may suffer skin wounds and flesh wounds, […] December 19 God Permits Temptation “And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil” (Luke 4:1-2). Jesus was full of the Holy Ghost, and yet He was tempted. Temptation often comes upon a man with its strongest […] |
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