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What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, Romans 9:22 ContextThe Calling of the Gentiles…Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for commonContinue reading “Self Fashioned Not God Fashioned”

June 13th Getting there Where the selective affinity dies and the sanctified abandon lives. Come ye after Me. Mark 1:17. One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we comeContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

June 13 “My own peace I give to you.” (John 14:27.) (Weymouth.) TWO painters each painted a picture to illustrate his conception of rest. The first chose for his scene a still, lone lake among the far-off mountains.The second threw on his canvas a thundering waterfall, with a fragile birch tree bending over the foam;Continue reading “Streams in the Desert”

13 JUNE But I want it Now! ‘It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.’ Lamentations 3:26SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Nehemiah 4:1–23 Observe the need of such a word as this. It is much like the design of the parable which our Lord delivered to encourageContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

ContextA Gentle Answer Turns Away Wrath…Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. A man takes joy in a fitting reply — and how good is a timely word! The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.… Proverbs 15:23