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August 26 “It is not in me.” (Job 28:14.) IREMEMBER a summer in which I said, “It is the ocean I need,” and I went to the ocean; but it seemed to say “It is not in me!” The ocean did not do for me what I thought it would. Then I said, “The mountainsContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

26 AUGUST Bound to obey ‘Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long on the earth.’ Ephesians 6:1–3SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Proverbs 4:1–27 The duty and obligation ofContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

August 25th The fruitfulness of friendship I have called you friends. John 15:15. We never know the joy of self-sacrifice until we abandon in every particular. Self-surrender is the most difficult thing—‘I will if …!’ ‘Oh well, I suppose I must devote my life to God.’ There is none of the joy of self-sacrifice inContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

August 25 “Shut up to faith.” (Gal. 3:23.) GOD, in olden time suffered man to be kept in ward by the law that he might learn the more excellent way of faith. For by the law he would see God’s holy standard and by the law he would see his own utter helplessness; then heContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

25 AUGUST (PREACHED 20 JANUARY 1767 & 30 MAY 1779) The brightest rainbow on the darkest cloud ‘And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud.’ Genesis 9:14SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Genesis 9:8–17 The rainbow is promised in the cloud and inContinue reading “365 days with Newton”