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  Morning, February 29 Go To Evening Reading “With lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” —Jeremiah 31:3 The thunders of the law and the terrors of judgment are all used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory is affected by loving-kindness. The prodigal set out to his father’s house from a sense of need, but his father saw him a great way off and ran to meet him so that the last steps he took towards his father’s house were with the kiss still warm upon his cheek, and the welcome still musical in his ears. “Law and terrors do but harden All the while, they work alone; But a sense of blood-bought pardon Will dissolve a heart of stone.” The Master came one night to the door and knocked with the iron hand of the law; the door shook and trembled upon its hinges, but the man piled every piece of furniture which he could find against the door, for he said, “I will not admit the man.” The Master turned away, but by and bye, he came back, and with his own soft hand, using m...

  Morning, February 28 Go To Evening Reading “My expectation is from him.” —Psalm 62:5 It is the believer’s privilege to use this language. If he is looking for aught from the world, it is a poor “expectation” indeed. But if he looks to God to supply his wants, whether in temporal or spiritual blessings, his “expectation” will not be in vain. He may draw from the bank of faith and get his need supplied out of the riches of God’s lovingkindness. This I know; I would rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds. My Lord never fails to honor his promises; when we bring them to his throne, he never sends them back unanswered. Therefore, I will wait only at his door, for he ever opens it with the hand of munificent grace. At this time, I will try him again. But we have “expectations” beyond this life. We shall die soon, and then our “expectation is from him.” Do we not expect that he will send angels to carry us to his bosom when we lie upon the bed of sickness? We beli...

  Morning, March 3 Go To Evening Reading “I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.” —Isaiah 48:10 Comfort thyself, tried believer, with this thought: God saith, “I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.” Does not the word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the flame? Is it not asbestos armor, against which the heat has no power? Let affliction come—God has chosen me. Poverty, thou mayst stride in at my door, but God is in the house already, and he has chosen me. Sickness, thou mayst intrude, but I have a balsam ready—God has chosen me. Whatever befalls me in this valley of tears, I know he has “chosen” me. If you still require greater comfort, remember that you have the Son of Man in the furnace . In that silent chamber of yours sits by your side One whom thou hast not seen, but whom thou loves; when thou knows it not, he makes all thy bed in thy affliction and smooths thy pillow for thee. Thou art in poverty, but in that lovely house of thine, th...

Morning, February 27 Go To Evening Reading “Thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation.” —Psalm 91:9 The Israelites in the wilderness were continually exposed to change . Whenever the pillar stayed in motion, the tents were pitched. Still, the next day, ere the morning sun had risen, the trumpet sounded, the ark was in motion, and the fiery, cloudy pillar was leading the way through the narrow defiles of the mountain, up the hillside, or along the arid waste of the wilderness. They had little time to rest before they heard, “Away! this is not your rest; you must still be onward journeying towards Canaan!” They were never long in one place. Even wells and palm trees could not detain them. Yet they had an abiding home in their God; his cloudy pillar was their roof tree, and its flame by night their household fire. They must go from place to place, continually changing, never settling, and  having time to say, “Now we are secure; in this pla...