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Day 5 - Thursday | Daily Devotions | Morning and Evening Reading | Connect the Testaments | My Utmost for His Highest | Thoughts for the Quiet Hour |

  Morning, April 10 : Go To Evening Reading "He placed it, which is called Calvary."   Luke 23:33 The hill of comfort is the hill of Calvary; the house of consolation is built with the wood of the Cross; the temple of heavenly blessing is founded upon the riven rock, riven by the spear which pierced his side. No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like Calvary's tragedy. "It's  not strange, the darkest hour That ever dawned on sinful earth, Should touch the heart with softer power, For comfort, than an angel's mirth? That to the Cross the mourner's eye should turn, Sooner than where the stars of Bethlehem burn" Light springs from the midday-midnight of Golgotha, and every herb of the field blooms sweetly beneath the shadow of the once accursed tree. In that place of thirst, grace hath dug a fountain which ever gusheth with waters pure as crystal, each drop capable of alleviating the woes of mankind. You who have had your season...

Day 3 - Tuesday | Daily Devotions | Morning and Evening Reading | Connect the Testaments | My Utmost for His Highest | Thoughts for the Quiet Hour |

  Morning, April 8 : Go To Evening Reading "If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?" —Luke 23:31 Among other interpretations of this suggestive question, the following is full of teaching: "If the innocent substitute for sinners, suffer thus, what will be done when the sinner himself-the dry tree—shall fall into the hands of an angry God?" When God saw Jesus in the sinner's place, he did not spare him; when he finds the unregenerate without Christ, he will not spare them. O sinner, Jesus was led away by his enemies: so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. God deserted Jesus, and if he was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? “ Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani ?” What an awful shriek! But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "God! O God! why hast thou forsaken me?" and the answer shall come back, ""because ye have set at nought all my counsel, an...