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As informed Bible students have observed so many times in the past, the providential activity of God is beyond human analysis. I sometimes refer to it as a provable-nonprovable proposition. This is what I mean: the Lord’s providential operations are certain; for, in principle, Bible examples demonstrating such are very clear. The experiences of JosephContinue reading “God’s Providential Use of Nations”

August 13th Quench not the Spirit Quench not the spirit. 1 Thess. 5:19. The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it. The checks of the Spirit come in the most extraordinarily gentle ways, and if youContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

August 13 “If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth.” (Eccles. 11:3.) WHY, then, do we dread the clouds which now darken our sky? True, for a while they hide the sun, but the sun is not quenched; he will be out again before long. Meanwhile those black clouds areContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

13 AUGUST Helplessness stirs us to prayer ‘O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.’ Psalm 43:3SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Psalm 61:1–8 A conviction of helplessness and insufficiency is implied. When an awakened sinner has seen the world to beContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

August 12th The theology of rest Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Matthew 8:26. When we are in fear we can do nothing less than pray to God, but Our Lord has a right to expect that those who name His Name should have an understanding confidence in Him. God expects HisContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”