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"I will rejoice over them to do them good." —Jeremiah 32:41 Morning Thought How heart-cheering to the believer is the delight which God has in his saints! We cannot see any reason in ourselves why the Lord should take pleasure in us; we cannot take delight in ourselves, for we often have to...

"Gather not my soul with sinners." —Psalms 26:9 Evening Thought Fear made David pray thus, for something whispered, "Perhaps, after all, thou mayst be gathered with the wicked." That fear, although marred by unbelief, springs, in the main, from holy anxiety, arising from the recollection of...

"The liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free." —Galatians 5:1 Morning Thought This "liberty" makes us free to heaven's charter-the Bible. Here is a choice passage, believer, "When thou passest through the rivers, I will be with thee." You are free to that. Here is another: "The mountains...

"For this child I prayed." —1 Samuel 1:27 Evening Thought Devout souls delight to look upon those mercies which they have obtained in answer to supplication, for they can see God's especial love in them. When we can name our blessings Samuel, that is, "asked of God," they will be as dear to...

"If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." —Galatians 5:25 Morning Thought The two most important things in our holy religion are the life of faith and the walk of faith. He who shall rightly understand these is not far from being a master in experimental theology, for they...

"Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies." —Psalms 5:8 Evening Thought Very bitter is the enmity of the world against the people of Christ. Men will forgive a thousand faults in others, but they will magnify the most trivial offence in the followers of Jesus. Instead of...

"I will sing of mercy and judgment." —Psalms 101:1 Evening Thought Faith triumphs in trial. When reason is thrust into the inner prison, with her feet made fast in the stocks, faith makes the dungeon walls ring with her merry notes as she cries, "I will sing of mercy and of judgment. Unto...

"I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin." —Psalms 32:5 Evening Thought David's grief for sin was bitter. Its effects were visible upon his outward frame: "his bones...

"A people near unto him." —Psalms 148:14 Evening Thought The dispensation of the old covenant was that of distance. When God appeared even to his servant Moses, he said, "Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet"; and when he manifested himself upon Mount Sinai, to his own...

"Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?" —Job 7:12 Evening Thought This was a strange question for Job to ask of the Lord. He felt himself to be too insignificant to be so strictly watched and chastened, and he hoped that he was not so unruly as to need to be so...

"Encourage him." —Deuteronomy 1:38 Evening Thought God employs his people to encourage one another. He did not say to an angel, "Gabriel, my servant Joshua is about to lead my people into Canaan-go, encourage him." God never works needless miracles; if his purposes can be accomplished by...

"Be ye separate." —2 Corinthians 6:17 Morning Thought The Christian, while in the world, is not to be of the world. He should be distinguished from it in the great object of his life. To him, "to live," should be "Christ." Whether he eats, or drinks, or whatever he does, he should do all to...

"God is jealous." —Nahum 1:2 Morning Thought Your Lord is very jealous of your love, O believer. Did he choose you? He cannot bear that you should choose another. Did he buy you with his own blood? He cannot endure that you should think that you are your own, or that you belong to this...

"Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well, the rain also filleth the pools." —Psalms 84:6 Morning Thought This teaches us that the comfort obtained by a one may often prove serviceable to another; just as wells would be used by the company who came after. We read some book full...

"There were also with him other little ships." —Mark 4:36 Morning Thought Jesus was the Lord High Admiral of the sea that night, and his presence preserved the whole convoy. It is well to sail with Jesus, even though it be in a little ship. When we sail in Christ's company, we may not make...

"He shall not be afraid of evil tidings." —Psalms 112:7 Morning Thought Christian, you ought not to dread the arrival of evil tidings; because if you are distressed by them, what do you more than other men? Other men have not your God to fly to; they have never proved his faithfulness as you...

"Partakers of the divine nature." —2 Peter 1:4 Morning Thought To be a partaker of the divine nature is not, of course, to become God. That cannot be. The essence of Deity is not to be participated in by the creature. Between the creature and the Creator there must ever be a gulf fixed in...

"Bring him unto me." —Mark 9:19 Morning Thought Despairingly the poor disappointed father turned away from the disciples to their Master. His son was in the worst possible condition, and all means had failed, but the miserable child was soon delivered from the evil one when the parent in...