Daily Devotions.
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the sword of the LORD with an electronic edge.
Through
the Bible Day by Day.(F.B Meyer)
February 23
Morning
"I will never leave thee." —
Heb_13:5
No promise is of private interpretation. Whatever God has said to any
one saint, he has said to all. When he opens a well for one, it is that all may
drink. When he openeth a granary-door to give out food, there may be some one
starving man who is the occasion of its being opened, but all hungry saints may
come and feed too. Whether he gave the word to Abraham or to Moses, matters
not, O believer; he has given it to thee as one of the covenanted seed. There
is not a high blessing too lofty for thee, nor a wide mercy too extensive for
thee. Lift up now thine eyes to the north and to the south, to the east and to
the west, for all this is thine. Climb to Pisgah's top, and view the utmost
limit of the divine promise, for the land is all thine own. There is not a
brook of living water of which thou mayst not drink. If the land floweth with
milk and honey, eat the honey and drink the milk, for both are thine. Be thou
bold to believe, for he hath said, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake
thee."In this promise, God gives to his people everything. "I will
never leave thee." Then no attribute of God can cease to be engaged for
us. Is he mighty? He will show himself strong on the behalf of them that trust
him. Is he love? Then with lovingkindness will he have mercy upon us. Whatever
attributes may compose the character of Deity, every one of them to its fullest
extent shall be engaged on our side. To put everything in one, there is nothing
you can want, there is nothing you can ask for, there is nothing you can need
in time or in eternity, there is nothing living, nothing dying, there is nothing
in this world, nothing in the next world, there is nothing now, nothing at the
resurrection-morning, nothing in heaven which is not contained in this
text-"I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."
Reference Vers
Hebrews 13:5
conversation: Exo_20:17;
Jos_7:21; Psa_10:3,
Psa_119:36; Jer_6:13; Eze_33:31;
Mar_7:22; Luk_8:14,
Luk_12:15-21, Luk_16:13-14; Rom_1:29;
1Co_5:11, 1Co_6:10;
Eph_5:3, Eph_5:5;
Col_3:5; 1Ti_3:3,
1Ti_6:9-10; 2Pe_2:3, 2Pe_2:14;
Jud_1:11
Extract
from
e-Sword-
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the Bible Day by Day.(F.B Meyer)
Evening
"Take up the cross, and follow me." —
Mar_10:21
You have not the making of your own cross, although unbelief is a
master carpenter at cross-making; neither are you permitted to choose your own
cross, although self-will would fain be lord and master; but your cross is
prepared and appointed for you by divine love, and you are cheerfully to accept
it; you are to take up the cross as your chosen badge and burden, and not to
stand cavilling at it. This night Jesus bids you submit your shoulder to his
easy yoke. Do not kick at it in petulance, or trample on it in vain-glory, or
fall under it in despair, or run away from it in fear, but take it up like a
true follower of Jesus. Jesus was a cross-bearer; he leads the way in the path
of sorrow. Surely you could not desire a better guide! And if he carried a
cross, what nobler burden would you desire? The Via Crucis is the way of
safety; fear not to tread its thorny paths.
Beloved, the cross is not made of feathers, or lined with velvet, it is
heavy and galling to disobedient shoulders; but it is not an iron cross, though
your fears have painted it with iron colours, it is a wooden cross, and a man
can carry it, for the Man of sorrows tried the load. Take up your cross, and by
the power of the Spirit of God you will soon be so in love with it, that like
Moses, you would not exchange the reproach of Christ for all the treasures of
Egypt. Remember that Jesus carried it, and it will smell sweetly; remember that
it will soon be followed by the crown, and the thought of the coming weight of
glory will greatly lighten the present heaviness of trouble. The Lord help you
to bow your spirit in submission to the divine will ere you fall asleep this
night, that waking with to-morrow's sun, you may go forth to the day's cross
with the holy and submissive spirit which becomes a follower of the Crucified.
Reference Vers
Mark 10:21
loved: Gen_34:19;
Isa_63:8-10; Luk_19:41; 2Co_12:15
One thing: Luk_10:42,
Luk_18:22; Jas_2:10; Rev_2:4,
Rev_2:14, Rev_2:20
sell: Pro_23:23;
Mat_13:44-46, Mat_19:21; Luk_12:33;
Act_2:45, Act_4:34-37
treasure: Mat_6:19-21;
Luk_16:9; 1Ti_6:17-19;
Heb_10:34; 1Pe_1:4-5
take: Mar_8:34;
Mat_16:24; Luk_9:23; Joh_12:26,
Joh_16:33; Rom_8:17-18; 2Ti_3:12
Extract
from
e-Sword-
the sword of the LORD with an electronic edge.
Through
the Bible Day by Day.(F.B Meyer)
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