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July 14 Strong in Suffering “Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well” (2 Kings 4:26). “Be strong, my soul! Thy loved ones go Within the veil. God’s thine, e’en so; Be strong. “Be strong, my soul! Death looms in view. Lo, here thy God! […] July 13 Reaching Perfection “Perfect through suffering” (Heb. 2:10). Steel is iron plus fire. Soil is rock, plus heat, or glacier crushing. Linen is flax plus the bath that cleans, the comb that separates, and the flail that pounds, and the shuttle that weaves. Human character must have a plus attached to it. The world […] July 12 Devil’s Burden “There remaineth, therefore, a rest to the people of God” (Heb. 4:9). The rest includes victory, “And the Lord gave them rest round about; . . . the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hand” (Joshua 21:44). “He will beautify the meek with victory” (Ps. 149:4). (Rotherham, margin) An eminent […] July 11 In God, Not Out of Trouble “And seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest” (Jer. 45:5). A promise given for hard places, […] July 10 Music of the Storm “Nevertheless afterward” (Heb. 12:11). There is a legend that tells of a German baron who, at his castle on the Rhine, stretched wires from tower to tower, that the winds might convert them into an Aeolian harp. And the soft breezes played about the castle, but no music was […] |
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