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March 10 “The just shall live by faith.” (Heb. 10:38.) SEEMINGS and feelings are often substituted for faith. Pleasurable emotions and deep satisfying experiences are part of the Christian life, but they are not all of it. Trials, conflicts, battles and testings lie along the way, and are not to be counted as misfortunes, butContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

March 9 “Look from the top.” (Song of Solomon 4:8.)CRUSHING weights give the Christian wings. It seems like a contradiction in terms, but it is a blessed truth. David out of some bitter experience cried: “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest” (Psa. 55:6). ButContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

March 8 “Do as thou hast said, that thy name may be magnified forever.” (1 Chron. 17:23, 24.) THIS is a most blessed phase of true prayer. Many a time we ask for things which are not absolutely promised. We are not sure therefore until we have persevered for some time whether our petitions areContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

March 7 “We are troubled on every side.” (2 Cor. 7:5.) WHY should God have to lead us thus, and allow the pressure to be so hard and constant? Well, in the first place, it shows His all-sufficient strength and grace much better than if we were exempt from pressure and trial. “The treasure isContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

March 6 “We trusted.” (Luke 24:21.) I HAVE always felt so sorry that in that walk to Emmaus the disciples had not said to Jesus, “We still trust”; instead of “We trusted.” That is so sad—something that is all over.If they had only said, “Everything is against our hope; it looks as if our trustContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”