Category Archives: Bible

March 5 “We are made partaker of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end.” (Heb. 3:14.) IT is the last step that wins; and there is no place in the pilgrim’s progress where so many dangers lurk as the region that lies hard by the portals of the CelestialContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

March 4 “Followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” (Heb. 6:12.) THEY (heroes of faith) are calling to us from the heights that they have won, and telling us that what man once did man can do again. Not only do they remind us of the necessity of faith, but alsoContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

March 3 “And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him.” (Mark 9:26.) EVIL never surrenders its hold without a sore fight. We never pass into any spiritual inheritance through the delightful exercises of a picnic, but always through the grim contentions of the battle field. It is so in theContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

March 2 “Be ready in the morning, and come up … present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. And no man shall come up with thee.” (Exod. 34:2, 8.) THE morning watch is essential. You must not face the day until you have faced God, nor look into the face ofContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

March 1 “Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked. (Eccles. 7:13.) OFTEN God seems to place His children in positions of profound difficulty, leading them into a wedge from which there is no escape; contriving a situation which no human judgment would have permitted, had itContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”