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December 4th The law of antagonism To him that overcometh.… Rev. 2:7. Life without war is impossible either in nature or in grace. The basis of physical, mental, moral, and spiritual life is antagonism. This is the open fact of life.Health is the balance between physical life and external nature, and it is maintained onlyContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

December 4 “He went up into a mountain apart.” (Matt. 14:23.) ONE of the blessings of the old-time Sabbath was its calm, its restfulness, its holy peace. There is a strange strength conceived in solitude. Crows go in flocks and wolves in packs, but the lion and the eagle are solitaires.Strength is not in blusterContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

4 DECEMBER (PREACHED CHRISTMAS EVENING 1769) Lost in ourselves ‘For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.’ Luke 19:10SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Luke 15:1–32 If man is lost to God, is he not lost in himself also? Yes, he that sinneth against God wrongeth his own soul. TheContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

December 3rd Not by might nor by power And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. 1 Cor. 2:4. If in preaching the Gospel you substitute your clear knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power ofContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

December 3 “Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with the child?And she answered, It is well.” (2 Kings 4:26.) FOR sixty-two years and five months I had a beloved wife, and now, in my ninety-second year I am left alone. But I turn to the ever present Jesus, as I walk upContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”