Category Archives: Bible

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”

“None of these things move me.” (Acts 20:24.) WE read in the book of Samuel that the moment that David was crowned at Hebron, “All the Philistines came up to seek David.” And the moment we get anything from the Lord worth contending for, then the devil comes to seek us.When the enemy meets usContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”