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February 24 Grow in the Gloom “I have all, and abound” (Phil. 4:18). In one of my garden books there is a chapter with a very interesting heading, “Flowers that Grow in the Gloom.” It deals with those patches in a garden which never catch the sunlight. And my guide tells me […] February 22 No Miracles “And the rest, some on boards, some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass that they escaped all safe to land” (Acts 27:44). The marvelous story of Paul’s voyage to Rome, with its trials and triumphs, is a fine pattern of the lights […] February 21 Himself “He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me; because he delighted in me” (Ps. 18:19). And what is this “large place”? What can it be but God Himself, that infinite Being in whom all other beings and all other streams of life terminate? God is […] February 20 Wrestling With God “And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day” (Gen. 32:24). God is wrestling with Jacob more than Jacob is wrestling with God. It was the Son of man, the Angel of the Covenant. It was God in […] February 19 Joined in God “As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing” (2 Cor. 6:10). Sorrow was beautiful, but her beauty was the beauty of the moonlight shining through the leafy branches of the trees in the wood, and making little pools of silver here and there on the soft green moss below. […] |
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