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January 26 “I have begun to give; … begin to possess.” (Deut. 2:31.) A GREAT deal is said in the Bible about waiting for God. The lesson cannot be too strongly enforced. We easily grow impatient of God’s delays. Much of our trouble in life comes out of our restless, sometimes reckless, haste. We cannotContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

January 25 “Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” (Psa. 23:4.) AT my father’s house in the country there is a little closet in the chimney corner where are kept the canes and walking-sticks of several generations of our family. In my visits to the old house, when my father and I are goingContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

January 24 “But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him. … And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf.” (Gen. 8:9–11.) GOD knows just when to withhold from us any visible sign of encouragement, andContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

January 23 “Why standest thou afar off, O Lord?” (Psalm 10:1.) GOD is “a very present help in trouble.” But He permits trouble to pursue us, as though He were indifferent to its overwhelming pressure, that we may be brought to the end of ourselves, and led to discover the treasure of darkness, the unmeasurableContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

January 22 “Into a desert place apart.” (Matt. 14:13.) THERE is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it.” In our whole life-melody the music is broken off here and there by “rests,” and we foolishly think we have come to the end of the tune. God sends aContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”