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  Morning, April 30 Go To Evening Reading “And all the children of Israel murmured.” —Numbers 14:2 There are murmurers amongst Christians now, as there were in the camp of Israel of old. When the rod falls, some cry out against the afflictive dispensation. They ask, “Why am I thus afflicted? What have I done to be chastened in this manner?” A word with thee, O murmurer! Why shouldst thou murmur against the dispensations of thy heavenly Father? Can he treat thee more hardly than thou deservest? Consider what a rebel thou wast once, but he has pardoned thee! Indeed, if he in his wisdom sees fit now to chasten thee, thou shouldst not complain. After all, art thou smitten as hardly as thy sins deserve? Consider the corruption in thy breast, and then wilt thou wonder that there needs so much of the rod to fetch it out? Weigh thyself, and discern how much dross is mingled with thy gold, and do you think the fire is too hot to purge so much trash as thou hast? Does not that proud, ...

  Morning, April 29 Go To Evening Reading “Thou art my hope in the day of evil.” —Jeremiah 17:17 The path of the Christian is not always bright with sunshine; he has his seasons of darkness and storm. Accurate, it is written in God’s Word, “Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace;” and it is an excellent truth that religion is calculated to give a man happiness below as well as bliss above; but experience tells us that if the course of the just is “As the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day,” yet sometimes that light is eclipsed. At specific periods clouds cover the believer’s sun, and he walks in darkness and sees no light. Many have rejoiced in the presence of God for a season; they have basked in the sunshine in the earlier stages of their Christian career; they have walked along the “green pastures” by the side of the “still waters,” but suddenly, they find the glorious sky is clouded; instead of the Land of Goshen they h...

  Morning, April 28 Go To Evening Reading “Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.” —Psalm 119:49 Whatever your particular need maybe, you may readily find some promise in the Bible suited to it. Are you faint and feeble because your way is rough and weary? Here is the security—“He giveth power to the faint.” When you read such a promise, take it back to the great Promiser, and ask him to fulfill his own word. Are you seeking after Christ and thirsting for closer communion with him? This promise shines like a star upon you—“Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.” Take that promise to the throne continually; do not plead anything else, but go to God repeatedly with this—“Lord, thou hast said it, do as thou hast said.” Are you distressed because of sin and burdened with the heavy load of your iniquities? Listen to these words—“I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions and will no mo...

Morning, April 27 Go To Evening Reading “God, even our own God.” —Psalm 67:6 It is strange how little use we make of the spiritual blessings which God gives us, but it is stranger still how little use we make of God himself. Though he is “our own God,” we apply ourselves but little to him and ask little of him. How seldom do we ask counsel at the hands of the Lord! How often do we go about our business without seeking his guidance! How constantly do we strive to bear our burdens ourselves in our troubles, instead of casting them upon the Lord, that he may sustain us! This is not because we may not, for the Lord seems to say, “I am thine, soul, come and make use of me as thou wilt; thou mayst freely come to my store, and the oftener the more welcome.” It is our own fault if we make not free with the riches of our God. Then, since thou hast such a friend, and he invites thee, draw from him daily. Never want while thou hast a God to go to; never fear or faint while thou hast God to...

  Morning, April 26 Go To Evening Reading “This do in remembrance of me.” —1 Corinthians 11:24 It seems then that Christians may forget Christ! There could be no need for this loving exhortation if there were not a fearful supposition that our memories might prove treacherous. Nor is this a bare supposition: it is, alas! Too well confirmed in our experience, not as a possibility, but as a lamentable fact. It appears almost impossible that those who have been redeemed by the blood of the dying Lamb, and loved with an everlasting love by the eternal Son of God, should forget that gracious Saviour; but, if startling to the ear, it is, alas! Too apparent to the eye to allow us to deny the crime. Forget him who never forgot us! Forget him who poured his blood forth for our sins! Forget him who loved us even to the death! Can it be possible? Yes, it is possible, but conscience confesses that it is too sadly a fault with all of us, that we suffer him to be as a wayfaring man tarryi...

  Morning, April 25 Go To Evening Reading “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.” —Song of Solomon 2:10 Lo, I hear the voice of my Beloved! He speaks to me ! Fairweather is smiling upon the face of the earth, and he would not have me spiritually asleep while nature is all around me awaking from her winter’s rest. He bids me, “Rise up,” and well he may, for I have long enough been lying among the pots of worldliness. He rises, I rise in him, why then should I cleave unto the dust? I would rise towards him from lower loves, desires, pursuits, and aspirations. He calls me by the sweet title of “My love” and counts me fair; this is a good argument for my rising. If he has thus exalted me and thinks me thus comely, how can I linger in the tents of Kedar and find congenial associates among the sons of men? He bids me, “Come away.” Further and further from everything selfish, groveling, worldly, sinful, he calls me; yea, from the outwardly religious world which knows Him no...

  Sunday, April 24, 2022, | Easter Second Sunday of Easter Old Testament Genesis 15:1–6 Psalm Psalm 116 New Testament 1 John 5:4–10 Gospel John 20:19–31 Index of Readings   Christian Worship One Year Lectionary . Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009. Print. Sunday, April 24, 2022, | Easter Second Sunday of Easter Year C First Reading Acts 5:27–32 Psalm Psalm 150 (UMH 862) New Testament Revelation 1:4–8 Gospel John 20:19–31  Vanderbilt Divinity Library. United Methodist Revised Common Lectionary . Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2009. Print. Sunday, April 24, 2022, | Easter Second Sunday of Easter Old Testament Ezekiel 37:1–14 Psalm Psalm 33 Epistle 1 John 5:4–10 Gospel John 20:19–31   Lutheran Service Book Historic (One Year) Lectionary . Bellingham, WA: Concordia Publishing House, 2009. Print. Sunday, April 24, 2022, | Easter Second Sunday of Easter Year C First ...