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May 10 Take The Initiative “Add to your faith virtue. . .” (“Furnish your faith with resolution.”) (MOFFATT.) 2 Peter 1:5 “Add” means there is something we have to do. We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot […] May 9 Grasp Without Reach “Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint.” Proverbs 29:18 (R.V.) There is a difference between an ideal and a vision. An ideal has no moral inspiration; a vision has. The people who give themselves over to ideals rarely do anything. A man’s conception of Deity may be […] May 8 The Patience Of Faith “Because thou hast kept the word of My patience.” Revelation 3:10 Patience is more than endurance. A saint’s life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and […] May 7 Building For Eternity “For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?” Luke 14:28 Our Lord refers not to a cost we have to count, but to a cost which He has counted. The cost was those thirty […] May 6 Liberty On The Abyss Of The Gospel “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.” Galatians 5:1 A spiritually minded man will never come to you with the demand – “Believe this and that;” but with the demand that you square your life with the standards of Jesus. We […] |
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