February • 58 entries
Morning • 2/1
Psalm 138:5
The time when Christians begin to sing in the ways of the Lord is when they first lose their burden at the foot of the Cross. Not even the songs of the angels seem so sweet as the first song of rapture which gushes from the inmost soul of the forgiven child of God. You know how J…
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Evening • 2/1
2 Samuel 1:26
Come, dear readers, let each one of us speak for himself of the wonderful love, not of Jonathan, but of Jesus. We will not relate what we have been told, but the things which we have tasted and handled—of the love of Christ. Your love to me, O Jesus, was wonderful when I was a st…
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Morning • 2/2
Hebrews 9:22
This is the voice of unalterable truth. In none of the Jewish ceremonies were sins, even typically, removed without blood-shedding. In no case, by no means can sin be pardoned without atonement. It is clear, then, that there is no hope for me apart from Christ, for there is no ot…
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Evening • 2/2
1 Chronicles 4:22
Yet not so ancient as those precious things which are the delight of our souls. Let us for a moment recount them, telling them over as misers count their gold. The sovereign choice of the Father, by which He elected us to eternal life, before the earth ever was, is a matter of va…
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Morning • 2/3
Romans 8:12
As God’s creatures, we are all debtors to him: to obey him with all our body, and soul, and strength. Having broken his commandments, as we all have, we are debtors to his justice, and we owe to him a vast amount which we are not able to pay. But of the Christian it can be said t…
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Evening • 2/3
Song of Solomon 1:7
These words express the believer's desire for Christ and his longing for present communion with him. Where doest thou feed thy flock? In your house ? I will go, if I may find you there. In private prayer ? Then I will pray without ceasing. In the Word ? Then I will read it dilige…
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Morning • 2/4
Hosea 3:1
Believer, look back through all your experience, and think of the way by which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness, and how He has fed and clothed you every day—how He has borne with your poor conduct—how He has put up with all your murmurings, and all your longings f…
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Evening • 2/4
Joshua 20:3
It is said that in the land of Canaan, cities of refuge were so arranged that anyone might reach one of them within half a day at most. In the same way, the word of our salvation is near to us. Jesus is a present Saviour, and the way to Him is short. It is only a simple renunciat…
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Morning • 2/5
1 John 4:14
It is a sweet thought that Jesus Christ did not come forth without his Father’s permission, authority, consent, and assistance. He was sent by the Father, so that he might be the Saviour of men. We are too apt to forget that, while there are distinctions as to the persons in the…
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Evening • 2/5
Matthew 11:25
This is an unusual way to begin a verse— “At that time Jesus answered.” If you look at the context, you will not notice that any person had asked Him a question, or that He was in conversation with any human being. Yet it is written, “Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Fath…
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Morning • 2/6
Ephesians 6:18
What multitudes of prayers we have offered from the first moment we learned to pray. Our first prayer was for ourselves; we asked that God would have mercy on us and blot out our sin. He heard us. But when He had blotted out our sins like a cloud, then we had more prayers for our…
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Evening • 2/6
James 5:16
As an encouragement to cheerfully offer intercessory prayer, remember that such prayer is the sweetest God ever hears , because the prayer of Christ is of this character. In all the incense which our Great High Priest now puts into the golden censer, there is not a single grain f…
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Morning • 2/7
Micah 2:10
The hour is approaching when the message will come to us, as it comes to all—“Arise, and go forth from the home in which you have dwelt, from the city in which you have done your business, from your family, from your friends. Arise, and take your last journey.” And what do we kno…
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Evening • 2/7
Revelation 11:12
Without considering these words in their prophetic connection, let us regard them as the invitation of our great Forerunner to his sanctified people. In due time there will be heard a great voice from heaven to every believer, saying, Come up hither. This should be to the saints…
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Morning • 2/8
Matthew 1:21
When a person is dear, everything connected with him becomes dear for his sake. Thus, so precious is the person of the Lord Jesus in the estimation of all true believers, that they consider everything about Him to be inestimable beyond all price. “ All thy garments smell of myrrh…
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Evening • 2/8
Matthew 1:21
Many people, if they are asked what they understand by salvation, will reply, “Being saved from hell and taken to heaven.” This is one result of salvation, but it is not even a tenth of what is contained in that blessing. It is true our Lord Jesus Christ does redeem all his peopl…
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Morning • 2/9
2 Samuel 5:23
When David made this inquiry, he had just fought the Philistines and gained a signal victory. The Philistines came up in great hosts, but by the help of God, David had easily put them to flight. Note, however, that when they came a second time, David did not go up to fight them w…
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Evening • 2/9
Luke 11:4
What we are taught to seek or shun in prayer, we should equally pursue or avoid in action. Therefore, we should very earnestly avoid temptation, seeking to walk so guardedly in the path of obedience that we may never tempt the devil to tempt us. We are not to enter the thicket in…
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Morning • 2/10
Philippians 4:12
There are many who know how to be abased who have not learned how to abound . When they are set upon the top of a pinnacle, their heads grow dizzy, and they are ready to fall. The Christian far more often disgraces his profession in prosperity than in adversity. It is a dangerous…
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Evening • 2/10
Isaiah 44:22
Attentively observe the instructive analogy : our sins are like a cloud . As clouds are of many shapes and shades, so are our transgressions. As clouds obscure the light of the sun and darken the landscape beneath, so do our sins hide from us the light of Jehovah's face and cause…
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Morning • 2/11
Acts 4:13
A Christian should be a striking likeness of Jesus Christ. You have read lives of Christ, beautifully and eloquently written, but the best life of Christ is his living biography, written out in the words and actions of his people. If we were what we profess to be, and what we sho…
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Evening • 2/11
Revelation 2:4
Ever to be remembered is that best and brightest of hours, when first we saw the Lord, lost our burden, received the roll of promise, rejoiced in full salvation, and went on our way in peace. It was springtime in the soul; the winter was past; the mutterings of Sinai’s thunders w…
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Morning • 2/12
2 Corinthians 1:5
There is a blessed proportion. The Ruler of Providence bears a pair of scales—in one scale He puts His people’s trials, and in the other He puts their consolations. When the scale of trial is nearly empty, you will always find the scale of consolation in nearly the same condition…
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Evening • 2/12
John 14:16
The Great Father revealed himself to believers of old before the coming of his Son, and was known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty. Then Jesus came, and the ever-blessed Son in his own proper person, was the delight of his people’s eyes. At the time of the Redeemer’s…
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Morning • 2/13
1 John 3:1,2
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us. Consider who we were, and what we feel ourselves to be even now when corruption is powerful in us, and you will wonder at our adoption. Yet we are called the sons of God . What a high relationship is that of a son, and…
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Evening • 2/13
Romans 8:1
Come, my soul, think of this. Believing in Jesus, you are actually and effectually cleared from guilt; you are led out of your prison. You are no more in fetters as a bond-slave; you are delivered now from the bondage of the law; you are freed from sin, and can walk at large as a…
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Morning • 2/14
2 Kings 25:30
Jehoiachin was not sent away from the king’s palace with a store to last him for months, but his provision was given to him as a daily pension. In this, he aptly portrays the happy position of all the Lord’s people. A daily portion is all that a person really wants . We do not ne…
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Evening • 2/14
Luke 8:47
One of the most touching and teaching of the Saviour’s miracles is before us tonight. The woman was very ignorant. She imagined that virtue came out of Christ by a law of necessity, without His knowledge or direct will. Moreover, she was a stranger to the generosity of Jesus’ cha…
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Morning • 2/15
2 Peter 3:18
Heaven will be full of the ceaseless praises of Jesus. Eternity! Your unnumbered years will speed their everlasting course, but forever and forever, to him be glory . Is he not a Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek ? To him be glory. Is he not king forever— King of king…
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Evening • 2/15
Psalm 45:8
And who are so privileged to make the Saviour glad? His church—his people. But is it possible? He makes us glad, but how can we make him glad ? By our love. Ah! We think it so cold, so faint; and so, indeed, we must sorrowfully confess it to be, but it is very sweet to Christ. He…
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Morning • 2/16
Philippians 4:11
These words show us that contentment is not a natural propensity of man. “Ill weeds grow quickly.” Covetousness, discontent, and murmuring are as natural to man as thorns are to the soil. We do not need to sow thistles and brambles; they come up naturally enough, because they are…
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Evening • 2/16
Nehemiah 9:20
Common, too common is the sin of forgetting the Holy Spirit. This is folly and ingratitude. He deserves well from us, for he is good, supremely good. As God, he is good essentially. He shares in the threefold ascription of Holy, holy, holy , which ascends to the Triune Jehovah. U…
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Morning • 2/17
Genesis 25:11
Hagar had once found deliverance there, and Ishmael had drunk from the water so graciously revealed by the God who lives and sees humankind; but this was merely a casual visit, such as worldly people pay to the Lord in times of need, when it suits their purpose. They cry to Him i…
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Evening • 2/17
Ezekiel 35:10
Edom’s princes saw the whole country left desolate, and counted upon its easy conquest; but there was one great difficulty in their way—quite unknown to them—“ The Lord was there; ” and in his presence lay the special security of the chosen land. Whatever may be the machinations…
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Morning • 2/18
Job 10:2
Perhaps, O tried soul, the Lord is doing this to develop your graces. There are some of your graces which would never be discovered if it were not for your trials. Do you not know that your faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter? Love is too often like…
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Evening • 2/18
Luke 15:18
It is quite certain that those whom Christ has washed in his precious blood do not need to make a confession of sin as culprits or criminals before God the Judge. For Christ has forever taken away all their sins in a legal sense, so they no longer stand where they can be condemne…
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Morning • 2/19
Ezekiel 36:37
Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarcely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication. You have found this true in your own personal experience. God has given you many an unsolicited favor, but still, great…
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Evening • 2/19
John 1:41
This case is an excellent pattern of all cases where spiritual life is vigorous. As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others . I will not believe that you have tasted of the honey of the gospel if you can eat it all yourself. True grace puts an end to all spiritua…
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Morning • 2/20
2 Corinthians 7:6
And who comforts like Him? Go to some poor, melancholy, distressed child of God. Tell him sweet promises, and whisper in his ear choice words of comfort. He is like the deaf adder; he does not listen to the voice of the charmer, however wisely he charms. He is drinking gall and w…
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Evening • 2/20
Matthew 4:1
A holy character does not avert temptation—Jesus was tempted. When Satan tempts us, his sparks fall upon tinder; but in Christ’s case, it was like striking sparks on water. Yet the enemy continued his evil work. Now, if the devil goes on striking when there is no result, how much…
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Morning • 2/21
Hebrews 13:5
If we can only grasp these words by faith, we have an all-conquering weapon in our hand. What doubt will not be slain by this two-edged sword? What fear is there which shall not fall smitten with a deadly wound before this arrow from the bow of God’s covenant? Will not the distre…
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Evening • 2/21
Acts 8:30
We should be more capable teachers of others, and less likely to be carried about by every wind of doctrine, if we sought a more intelligent understanding of the Word of God. Since the Holy Spirit, the Author of the Scriptures, is the One who alone can enlighten us to understand…
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Morning • 2/22
Genesis 49:24
That strength which God gives to his Josephs is real strength; it is not a boasted valor, a fiction, a thing of which men talk, but which ends in smoke; it is true— divine strength . Why does Joseph stand against temptation? Because God gives him aid. There is nothing that we can…
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Evening • 2/22
Nahum 1:3
Jehovah “ is slow to anger .” When mercy comes into the world, she drives winged steeds; the axles of her chariot-wheels are red hot with speed; but when wrath goes forth, it toils on with tardy footsteps, for God takes no pleasure in the sinner’s death. God’s rod of mercy is eve…
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Morning • 2/23
Hebrews 13:5
No promise is of private interpretation. Whatever God has said to any one saint, he has said to all. When he opens a well for one, it is so that all may drink. When he opens a granary door to give out food, there may be some one starving man who is the occasion of its being opene…
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Evening • 2/23
Mark 10:21
You do not make your own cross, although unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making. Neither are you permitted to choose your own cross, although self-will would gladly be lord and master. But your cross is prepared and appointed for you by divine love, and you are to accept…
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Morning • 2/24
Ezekiel 34:26
Here is sovereign mercy — I will give them the shower in its season. Is it not sovereign, divine mercy?—for who can say, I will give them showers, except God? There is only one voice which can speak to the clouds and bid them bring forth the rain. Who sends down the rain upon the…
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Evening • 2/24
Zechariah 1:12,13
What a sweet answer to an anxious inquiry! This night let us rejoice in it. O Zion, there are good things in store for you; your time of travail will soon be over; your children will be brought forth; your captivity will end. Bear patiently the rod for a season, and under the dar…
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Morning • 2/25
Matthew 3:7
It is pleasant to pass over a country after a storm has spent itself; to smell the freshness of the herbs after the rain has passed away, and to note the drops while they glisten like purest diamonds in the sunlight. That is the position of a Christian. He is going through a land…
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Evening • 2/25
Jonah 1:3
Instead of going to Nineveh to preach the Word, as God commanded him, Jonah disliked the work, and went down to Joppa to escape from it. There are occasions when God’s servants shrink from duty. But what is the consequence? What did Jonah lose by his conduct? He lost the presence…
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Morning • 2/26
Jonah 2:9
Salvation is the work of God. It is he alone who gives life to the soul, dead in trespasses and sins, and it is he also who maintains the soul in its spiritual life. He is both Alpha and Omega. Salvation is of the Lord. If I am prayerful, God makes me prayerful; if I have graces,…
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Evening • 2/26
Leviticus 13:13
This regulation appears strange enough, yet there was wisdom in it, for the full eruption of the disease proved that the underlying constitution was sound. This evening, it may be good for us to see the symbolic teaching of such a unique rule. We, too, are lepers, and can read th…
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Morning • 2/27
Psalm 91:9
The Israelites in the wilderness were continually exposed to change . Whenever the pillar stayed its motion, the tents were pitched; but tomorrow, before the morning sun had risen, the trumpet sounded, the ark was in motion, and the fiery, cloudy pillar was leading the way throug…
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Evening • 2/27
Micah 5:2
The Lord Jesus had goings forth for his people as their representative before the throne, long before they appeared upon the stage of time . It was from everlasting that he signed the compact with his Father, that he would pay blood for blood, suffering for suffering, agony for a…
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Morning • 2/28
Psalm 62:5
It is the believer’s privilege to use this language. If he is looking for anything from the world, it is a poor expectation indeed. But if he looks to God for the supply of his needs, whether in temporal or spiritual blessings, his expectation will not be a vain one. Constantly h…
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Evening • 2/28
1 Kings 17:16
See the faithfulness of divine love. You observe that this woman had daily necessities. She had herself and her son to feed in a time of famine; and now, in addition, the prophet Elijah was to be fed too. But though the need was threefold, yet the supply of meal was not depleted,…
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Morning • 2/29
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 brought about by lovingkindness. The prodigal set out for his father’s house from a sense of need; but his father saw him a long way off and ran to meet him; so the la…
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Evening • 2/29
1 Corinthians 2:12
Dear reader, have you received the spirit which is of God , worked by the Holy Spirit in your soul? The necessity of the work of the Holy Spirit in the heart may be clearly seen from this fact, that all that has been done by God the Father, and by God the Son, must be ineffectual…
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