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July 25th Am I blessed like this? Blessed are … Matthew 5:3–10 . When we first read the statements of Jesus they seem wonderfully simple and unstartling, and they sink unobserved into our unconscious minds. For instance, the Beatitudes seem merely mild and beautiful precepts for all unworldly and useless people, but of very littleContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

July 25 “What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter.” (John 13:7.) WE have only a partial view here of God’s dealings, His half-completed, half-developed plan; but all will stand out in fair and graceful proportions in the great finished Temple of Eternity! Go, in the reign of Israel’s greatest king,Continue reading “Streams in the Desert”

25 JULY Perseverance ‘And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.’ Genesis 5:24SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Jude 12–25 The beginning of Enoch’s walking with God seems to be marked out (verse 22) from the time when he begat Methuselah, when he was about sixty-five years old. But whether it is soContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

July 24th Disposition and deeds Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:20. The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in motive because he has been made goodContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

July 24 “Then believed they his words; they sang his praise. They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel; but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.” (Ps 106:12–15.) WE read of Moses, that “he endured,Continue reading “Streams in the Desert”