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Morning, December 21 “Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant.” 2 Samuel 23:5 This covenant is divine in its origin. “He hath made with me an everlasting covenant.” Oh that great word He ! Stop, my soul. God, the everlasting Father, has positively made a covenant with thee; yes, that God who spake […] Morning, December 20 Jeremiah 31:3 Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. Sometimes the Lord Jesus tells His Church His love thoughts. “He does not think it enough behind her back to tell it, but in her very presence He says, ‘Thou art all fair, my love.’ It is true, this is not […] 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 […] Morning, December 18 Joel 2:13 Rend your heart, and not your garments. Garment-rendering and other outward signs of religious emotion, are easily manifested and are frequently hypocritical; but to feel true repentance is far more difficult, and consequently far less common. Men will attend to the most multiplied and minute ceremonial regulations-for such things […] Morning, December 17 Jeremiah 2:2 I remember thee. Let us note that Christ delights to think upon His Church, and to look upon her beauty. As the bird returneth often to its nest, and as the wayfarer hastens to his home, so doth the mind continually pursue the object of its choice. We cannot […] |
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