Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 20
Base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen. —1 Corinthians 1:28
In some of the great halls of Europe may be seen pictures not painted with the brush, but mosaics, which are made up of small pieces of stone, glass, or other material. The artist takes these little pieces, and, polishing and arranging them, he forms them into the grand and beautiful picture. Each individual part of the picture may be a little worthless piece of glass or marble or shell; but, with each in its place, …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 19
I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isaiah 48:10
Does not the word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the flame? Yea, is it not an asbestos armor, against which the heat hath no power? Let affliction come—God has chosen me. Poverty, thou mayest stride in at my door—but God is in the house already, and He has chosen me. Sickness, thou mayest intrude, but I have a balsam ready—God has chosen me. Whatever befalls me in this vale of tears I know that He has “chosen” …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 18
Then spake Solomon . . . I have surely built thee an house to dwell in. —1 Kings 8:12, 13
Solomon, the prince of peace, alone could build the temple. If we would be soul-winners and build up the church, which is God’s temple, let us note this; not by discussion nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him. —J. Hudson Taylor
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 17
And the angel of the Lord said unto her [Hagar], Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. —Genesis 16:9
Submission is a great Christian law, but we find it early in Genesis, early in the history of mankind, and angel-given. —Selected
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 16
Jesus . . . went about doing good. —Acts 10:38
The finest of all fine arts is the art of doing good; and yet it is the least cultivated. —T. DeWitt Talmage
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 15
The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many. —Matthew 20:28
We are so to surrender ourselves to Christ that this great purpose of His coming shall claim and possess the whole life. We are to live, like God, to bless others. This is His will, His purpose concerning us. This is what His power waits to do for us. And this too, is the claim of His great love upon us.
Do not sigh a poor assent to …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 14
I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go; I will guide thee with mine eye. —Psalm 32:8
When God does the directing, our life is useful and full of promise, whatever it is doing; and discipline has its perfecting work. —H. E. Cobb
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 13
These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work. 1 Chronicles 4:23
Anywhere and everywhere we may dwell “with the King for His work.” We may be in a very unlikely or unfavorable place for this; it may be in a little country life, with little enough to be seen of the “goings” of the King around us; it may be among hedges of all sorts, hindrances in all directions; it may be, furthermore, with our hands full of all manner …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 12
Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. —Matthew 20:18
Never had there been such a going up to Jerusalem as that which Jesus here proposes to His disciples. He goes up voluntarily. The act was not enforced by any external compulsion. Jerusalem might at this time have been avoided. It was deliberately sought. It was a going up to a triumph to be reached through defeat, a coronation to be attained through ignominy and humiliation.
O believer, in your walk through the world to-day, be strengthened, be comforted, be inspired, by the spectacle …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - September 11
Now are we the sons of God: and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. —1 John 3:2
“Now are we the sons of God.” That is the pier upon one side of the gulf. “It doth not yet appear what we shall be, but when He shall appear we shall be like Him.” That is the pier on the other. How are the two to be connected? There …
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