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April 27 “I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore.” (Rev. 1:18) FLOWERS! Easter lilies! speak to me this morning the same dear old lesson of immortality which you have been speaking to so many sorrowing souls. Wise old Book! let me read again in your pages ofContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

27 APRIL A hardened heart ‘And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he didContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

April 26th The supreme climb Take now thy son, … and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. Genesis 22:2. Character determines how a man interprets God’s will (cf. Psalm 18:25–26 ). Abraham interpreted God’s command to mean that he had to kill his son,Continue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

April 26 “I even reckon all things as pure loss because of the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord”(Phil. 3:8.) (Weymouth.) SHINING is always costly. Light comes only at the cost of that which produces it. An unlit candle does no shining. Burning must come before shining. We cannot be of great useContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

26 APRIL (PREACHED 23 APRIL 1775) Yet … ‘Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.’ 2 Samuel 23:5SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Jeremiah 31:31–34Continue reading “365 days with Newton”