Extract from
e-Sword- the sword of the LORD with an electronic edge.
Through the Bible Day by Day.(F.B Meyer)
February 27
Morning
"Thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High,
thy habitation." — Psa_91:9
The Israelites in the wilderness were continually exposed to change.
Whenever the pillar stayed its motion, the tents were pitched; but tomorrow,
ere the morning sun had risen, the trumpet sounded, the ark was in motion, and
the fiery, cloudy pillar was leading the way through the narrow defiles of the
mountain, up the hill side, or along the arid waste of the wilderness. They had
scarcely time to rest a little before they heard the sound of "Away! this
is not your rest; you must still be onward journeying towards Canaan!"
They were never long in one place. Even wells and palm trees could not detain
them. Yet they had an abiding home in their God, his cloudy pillar was their
roof-tree, and its flame by night their household fire. They must go onward
from place to place, continually changing, never having time to settle, and to
say, "Now we are secure; in this place we shall dwell."
"Yet," says Moses, "though we are always changing, Lord, thou
hast been our dwelling-place throughout all generations." The Christian
knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow;
he may be sickly to-day and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day,
to-morrow he may be distressed-but there is no change with regard to his
relationship to God. If he loved me yesterday, he loves me to-day. My unmoving
mansion of rest is my blessed Lord. Let prospects be blighted; let hopes be
blasted; let joy be withered; let mildews destroy everything; I have lost
nothing of what I have in God. He is "my strong habitation whereunto I can
continually resort." I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God.
In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.
Reference Verses
Psalms 91:9
Because: Psa_91:2,
Psa_142:4-5, Psa_146:5-6
most high: Psa_91:1,
Psa_71:3, Psa_90:1
Extract from
e-Sword- the sword of the LORD with an electronic edge.
Through the Bible Day by Day.(F.B Meyer)
Evening
"Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting" — Mic_5:2
The Lord Jesus had goings forth for his people as their representative
before the throne, long before they appeared upon the stage of time. It was
"from everlasting" that he signed the compact with his Father, that
he would pay blood for blood, suffering for suffering, agony for agony, and
death for death, in the behalf of his people; it was "from
everlasting" that he gave himself up without a murmuring word. That from
the crown of his head to the sole of his foot he might sweat great drops of blood,
that he might be spit upon, pierced, mocked, rent asunder, and crushed beneath
the pains of death. His goings forth as our Surety were from everlasting.
Pause, my soul, and wonder! Thou hast goings forth in the person of Jesus
"from everlasting." Not only when thou wast born into the world did
Christ love thee, but his delights were with the sons of men before there were
any sons of men. Often did he think of them; from everlasting to everlasting he
had set his affection upon them. What! my soul, has he been so long about thy
salvation, and will not he accomplish it? Has he from everlasting been going
forth to save me, and will he lose me now? What! Has he carried me in his hand,
as his precious jewel, and will he now let me slip from between his fingers?
Did he choose me before the mountains were brought forth, or the channels of
the deep were digged, and will he reject me now? Impossible! I am sure he would
not have loved me so long if he had not been a changeless Lover. If he could
grow weary of me, he would have been tired of me long before now. If he had not
loved me with a love as deep as hell, and as strong as death, he would have
turned from me long ago. Oh, joy above all joys, to know that I am his
everlasting and inalienable inheritance, given to him by his Father or ever the
earth was! Everlasting love shall be the pillow for my head this night.
Reference Verses
Micah 5:2
But thou: Mat_2:6;
Joh_7:42
Ephratah: Gen_35:19,
Gen_48:7, Ephrath, Rth_4:11; 1Sa_17:12;
1Ch_2:50-51, 1Ch_2:54, 1Ch_4:4;
Psa_132:6
among: 1Sa_10:19,
1Sa_23:23
thousands: Exo_18:21,
Exo_18:25; Deu_1:15; 1Sa_8:12,
1Sa_17:18
yet: Isa_11:1,
Isa_53:2; Eze_17:22-24;
Amo_9:11; Luk_2:4-7;
1Co_1:27-28
that is: Gen_49:10;
1Ch_5:2; Isa_9:6-7;
Jer_13:5-6; Eze_34:23-24, Eze_37:22-25;
Zec_9:9; Mat_28:18;
Luk_1:31-33, Luk_23:2, Luk_23:38;
Joh_19:14-22; Rev_19:16
whose: Psa_90:2,
Psa_102:25-27; Pro_8:22; Joh_1:1-3;
Col_1:17; Heb_13:8;
1Jn_1:1; Rev_1:11-18,
Rev_2:8, Rev_21:6
everlasting: or, the days of eternity
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e-Sword- the sword of the LORD with an electronic edge.
Through the Bible Day by Day.(F.B Meyer)
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