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Evening, April 5 Scripture: “Before honour is humility.”(Proverbs 15:33) Humiliation of soul always brings a positive blessing with it. If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with his love. He who desires close communion with Christ should remember the word of the Lord, “To this man will I look, even […] Evening, April 4 Scripture: “Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord.”(Isaiah 2:3) It is exceedingly beneficial to our souls to mount above this present evil world to something nobler and better. The cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches are apt to choke everything good within […] Evening, April 3 Scripture: “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”(Isaiah 53:6) Here a confession of sin common to all the elect people of God. They have all fallen, and therefore, in common […] Evening, April 2 Scripture: “He shall see his seed; he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.”(Isaiah 53:10) Plead for the speedy fulfilment of this promise, all ye who love the Lord. It is easy work to pray when we are grounded and bottomed, as to […] Evening, April 1 Scripture: “It is time to seek the Lord.”(Hosea 10:12) This month of April is said to derive its name from the Latin verb aperio, which signifies to open, because all the buds and blossoms are now opening, and we have arrived at the gates of the flowery year. Reader, if you […] |
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