"And let us not be weary in well doing:
for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
(Galatians 6:9)
A lad saw a want ad in a small Massachusetts paper,
asking for a young man to assist the office manager of a
brokerage house. Applications were to be mailed to Box 1720, Boston.
The young man wrote the best letter of application he knew how.
When no reply came he wrote a second letter. Still no reply. Though
discouraged, he did not quit. He rewrote his letter, and still he received no reply.
The lad knew that success required persistence.
So he took a train to Boston and went directly to the post office.
The boy hunted for Box 1720, then waited hours until someone came.
He followed the person to one of Boston’s large brokerage houses. When the
manager heard his story he said, “My young friend, you are just the type we are looking for.
The job is yours.” Thus began the career of Roger Babson (1875 - 1967),
one of America’s illustrious statisticians.
Do you ever feel like giving up your Sunday school class or secretarial job or superintending position?
Three of the qualities demanded repeatedly in the New Testament of
Christians are perseverance, fidelity, and steadfastness.
The text, (Galatians 6:9), suggests three ideas:
well doing, weariness, and waiting for the certain harvest.
(Leslie B. Flynn)
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February 22
“The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart
from the snares of death.”
(Proverbs 14:27)
We believe we are living in a day when the wisdom of this book (Proverbs) is most needful.
The tendency about us today is to challenge all authority, whether it be human or divine.
Man would cast off all restrictions to the full
gratification of his lusts and desires.
We are nearing the time when the “lawless one” (2 Thessalonians 2:8) shall be revealed.
How good then to know that God has given us in this book of Proverbs the definite principles that will keep us from becoming victims of this satanic spirit of insubordination, whether it be
in relationship to God, to the government, to the assembly or in the family.
(C. H. Brown - 1967)
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February 27
“The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.”
(John 1:14)
In the history of flesh and blood, given to us in Scripture,
we learn that by sin came death.
To all, as headed or represented in Adam, it was this:
”In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Genesis 2:17).
Touching, however, the promised Seed of the woman, who was not thus represented,
it was said to the serpent, “Thou shalt bruise His heel.”
The death of this Seed was thus to be as peculiar as His birth.
He was, in birth, to be the woman’s Seed; in death
He was to have His heel bruised.
In the fullness of time this promised One was “made of a woman”.
The Son of God, the Sanctifier, took part of flesh and blood;
He became “that holy thing” (Luke 1:35).
Had death, any title? None whatever. Whatever title the everlasting covenant
had on His heel, death had none on His flesh and blood. In this blessed
One, there was a capability of meeting the divine purpose,
that his heel should be bruised; but there was
no exposure to death in anywise.
(J. G. Bellett)
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February 24
“Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following;
which also leaned on His breast at supper.”
(John 21:20)
Safe in the arms of Jesus, safe on His gentle breast,
There by His love o’ershaded, sweetly my soul shall rest.
Hark! ’tis the voice of angels, borne in a song to me.
Over the fields of glory, over the jasper sea.
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“Be careful for nothing,”
(Philippians 4:6)
Safe in the arms of Jesus, safe from corroding care,
Safe from the world’s temptations, sin cannot harm me there.
Free from the blight of sorrow, free from my doubts and fears;
Only a few more trials, only a few more tears!
(TREASURES FROM FANNY CROSBY)
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February 25
“And Pharaoh . . . arrayed him (Joseph) in vestures of fine linen.”
(Genesis 41:42)
“And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen.”
(Revelation 19:8)
From the pit to the prison to the palace, Joseph’s life went from humiliation to exaltation.
Forsaken by his brothers, a slave in Egypt, suffering the consequence of lies, forgotten in prison, but one day given a bride and exalted in the kingdom.
One day—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, we shall be ushered into the presence of the King, our heavenly Bridegroom, and dressed in fine linen as the Bride of Christ, we shall be
united to Him forever at the marriage supper of the Lamb.
As we anticipate, let us worship.
(C. Tempest)
So, led from strength to strength; we long, O Lord to see,
The marriage supper of the Lamb,
Thy great epiphany.
(Unknown)
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February 26
"All Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine; and I am glorified in them.
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the
world, and I come to Thee. Holy Father, keep through
Thine own name those whom Thou hast given
Me, that they may be one, as We are.”
(John 17:10-11)
It is as if He said, "They will need no less of care,
than what I have received Myself".
“Preserve me, O God: for in Thee do I put my trust.”
(Psalm 16:1)
There is a tenderness in it.
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The Christian is in a place that he can deprive himself of by no
act of his: but a single foolish thought may deprive him of the joy of the place.
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We ought to be like the Shunammite woman,
“I dwell among mine own
people” — up there!
(2 Kings 4:13)
(Hunt’s Sayings )
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“And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power
of Christ may rest upon me.”
(2 Corinthians 12:9)
The answer to our oft-repeated cry comes not in the way of deliverance;
if instead of removing the trying thing, He speaks to our hearts in tender, gracious power, saying,
“My grace is sufficient for thee,” shall we not bow submissively to His perfect will,
assured that His choice is wiser and better than ours?
May we not even go further, as Paul did when he said, “Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me"? It is a great thing to say, for glorying in our infirmities goes far beyond bearing them with patience and submission.
But His grace enables His weak and suffering saints thus to speak when He is
fully trusted and His will accepted in perfect acquiescence.
We rest, then, as one rests on a bed of down, and we gladly leave ourselves in His hands as we hear Him say, “What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter” (John 13:7).
(A. J. Pollock)
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February 28
“But there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared.”
(Psalm 130:4)
But if we are defeated? There is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared.
When I was small I used to wonder why the word
feared was used there, why not loved?
But the Spirit of God chooses the words He uses in the Scriptures, and there is a solemn truth in this word “feared”. Some of us know what it is to have a child speak lovingly after being forgiven, and yet perhaps that child does that same wrong thing again, without apparently very much caring that it will need forgiveness again, and without in the least thinking of what its
sin has cost, and what forgiveness costs.
So here the word strikes a deeper note. “Feared” means "reverenced”, it means "the deep awe,
which love so tender, yet so holy, must needs inspire.” It means the kind of love which
has fear and reverence in it, and that kind of love will never think
it is a little thing to grieve our holy God.
If we have been defeated, let us not be discouraged, there is forgiveness.
But do not let us think lightly of defeat, as though it did not much
matter. It cost God Calvary to forgive my “smallest” sin.
(Amy Carmichael)
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