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Evening, September 17 Scripture: “Encourage him.”(Deuteronomy 1:38) God employs his people to encourage one another. He did not say to an angel, “Gabriel, my servant Joshua is about to lead my people into Canaan－go, encourage him.” God never works needless miracles; if his purposes can be accomplished by ordinary means, he will not use miraculous […] Evening, September 16 Scripture: “Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?”(Job 7:12) This was a strange question for Job to ask of the Lord. He felt himself to be too insignificant to be so strictly watched and chastened, and he hoped that he was not so unruly as […] Evening, September 15 Scripture: “A people near unto him.”(Psalm 148:14) The dispensation of the old covenant was that of distance. When God appeared even to his servant Moses, he said, “Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet”; and when he manifested himself upon Mount Sinai, to his own chosen and […] Evening, September 14 Scripture: “I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.”(Psalm 32:5) David’s grief for sin was bitter. Its effects were visible upon his outward frame: “his bones waxed old”; “his […] Evening, September 13 Scripture: “This man receiveth sinners.”(Luke 15:2) Observe the condescension of this fact. This Man, who towers above all other men, holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners－this Man receiveth sinners. This Man, who is no other than the eternal God, before whom angels veil their faces－this Man receiveth sinners. It needs an […] |
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