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Evening, June 4 Scripture: “Received up into glory.”(1 Timothy 3:16) We have seen our well-beloved Lord in the days of his flesh, humiliated and sore vexed; for he was “despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.” He whose brightness is as the morning, wore the sackcloth of sorrow […] Evening, June 3 Scripture: “He humbled himself.”(Philippians 2:8) Jesus is the great teacher of lowliness of heart. We need daily to learn of him. See the Master taking a towel and washing his disciples’ feet! Follower of Christ, wilt thou not humble thyself? See him as the Servant of servants, and surely thou canst […] Evening, June 2 Scripture: “Good Master.”(Mark 10:17) If the young man in the gospel used this title in speaking to our Lord, how much more fitly may I thus address him! He is indeed my Master in both senses, a ruling Master and a teaching Master. I delight to run upon his errands, and […] Evening, June 1 Scripture: “He will make her wilderness like Eden.”(Isaiah 51:3) Methinks, I see in vision a howling wilderness, a great and terrible desert, like to the Sahara. I perceive nothing in it to relieve the eye, all around I am wearied with a vision of hot and arid sand, strewn with ten […] Evening, May 31 Scripture: “Who healeth all thy diseases.”(Psalm 103:3) Humbling as is the statement, yet the fact is certain, that we are all more or less suffering under the disease of sin. What a comfort to know that we have a great Physician who is both able and willing to heal us! Let […] |
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