Day 4 - Wednesday | Daily Devotions | Morning and Evening | Connect the Testaments | My Utmost for His Highest | Thoughts for the Quiet Hour |
Morning, August 27 Go To Evening Reading “How long will it be ere they believe me?” —Numbers 14:11 Strive with all diligence to keep out that monster unbelief . It so dishonours Christ that he will withdraw his visible presence if we insult him by indulging it. It is indeed a weed, the seeds of which we can never entirely extract from the soil, but we must aim at its root with zeal and perseverance. Among hateful things, it is the most abhorred. Its injurious nature is so venomous that he that exerciseth it and he upon whom it is exercised are both hurt thereby. In thy case, O believer! It is most wicked, for the mercies of thy Lord in the past, increase thy guilt in doubting him now. When thou dost distrust the Lord Jesus, he may well cry out, “Behold I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.” This is crowning his head with thorns of the sharpest kind. It is fierce for a well-beloved wife to mistrust a kind and faithful husband. The sin is need...