Category Archives: Bible

April 30 “And the ill favored and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well favored and fat kine … and the thin, ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears”(Gen. 41:4, 7) THERE is a warning for us in that dream, just as it stands: It is possible for the best years ofContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

30 APRIL (PREACHED 30 APRIL 1775) Jesus, our gracious Mediator ‘… Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant …’ 2 Samuel 23:5SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 1 Timothy 2:5–6 This covenant of grace was established with and in our Lord Jesus Christ for the recovery and salvation of all that should believe in his name.Continue reading “365 days with Newton”

April 29th The graciousness of uncertainty It doth not yet appear what we shall be. 1 John 3:2. Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing. We imagine that we have to reach some end, but that is not the nature of spiritual life.Continue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

April 29 “Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are.”(James 5:17) THANK God for that! He got under a juniper tree, as you and I have often done; he complained and murmured, as we have often done; was unbelieving, as we have often been. But that was not the case when heContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

29 APRIL Full of shame ‘And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.’ Genesis 3:7SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Psalm 25:1–22 The immediate consequences for Adam and Eve were:(i) Their eyes were opened. Satan had blinded them but, when theContinue reading “365 days with Newton”