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  Morning, March 4 Go To Evening Reading “My grace is sufficient for thee.” (2 Corinthians 12:9 If none of God’s saints were poor and tried, we should not know half so well the consolations of divine grace. When we find the wanderer who has not where to lay his head, who yet can say, “Still will I trust in the Lord;” when we see the pauper starving on bread and water, who still glories in Jesus; when we see the bereaved widow overwhelmed in affliction, and yet having faith in Christ, oh! what honour it reflects on the gospel. God’s grace is illustrated and magnified in the poverty and trials of believers. Saints bear up under every discouragement, believing that all things work together for their sound, and that out of apparent evils a real blessing shall ultimately spring—that their God will either work a deliverance for them speedily, or most assuredly support them in the trouble, as long as he is pleased to keep them in it. This patience of the saints proves the power of ...

  Morning, March 2 Go To Evening Reading “But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.” (1 Samuel 13:20 We are engaged in a great war with the Philistines of evil. Every weapon within our reach must be used . Preaching, teaching, praying, and giving, all must be brought into action, and talents thought too mean for service must now be employed. Coulter, axe, and mattock may all help slay Philistines; rough tools may deal hard blows, and killing need not be elegantly done, so long as it is done effectually. Each moment, in or out of season; each fragment of ability, educated or untutored; each opportunity, favourable or unfavourable, must be used, for our foes are many and our force but slender. Most of our tools want sharpening ; we need quickness of perception, tact, energy, promptness, and, in a word, complete adaptation for the Lord’s work. Practical common sense is very scarce among ...

  Morning, March 1 Go To Evening Reading “Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.” (Song of Solomon 4:16 Anything is better than the dead calm of indifference. Our souls may wisely desire the north wind of trouble if that alone can be sanctified to the drawing forth of the perfume of our graces. So long as it cannot be said, “The Lord was not in the wind,” we will not shrink from the most wintry blast that ever blew upon plants of grace. Did not the spouse in this verse humbly submit herself to the reproofs of her Beloved, only entreating him to send forth his grace in some form and making no stipulation as to the peculiar manner in which it should come? Did she not, like ourselves, become so utterly weary of deadness and unholy calm that she sighed for any visitation which would brace her to action? Yet she desires the warm south wind of comfort, the smiles of divine love, the joy of the Redeemer’s presence; thes...

  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 for the supply of his wants, whether in temporal or spiritual blessings, his “expectation” will not be vain. He may draw from the bank of faith and get his need supplied out of the riches of God’s lovingkindness. I know this; I would rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds. My Lord never fails to honour 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 hour, I will try him anew. 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...