Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 22
Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. —Hebrews 12:6
We should ever bear in mind that the discipline of our heavenly Father’s hand is to be interpreted in the light of our Father’s countenance; and the deep mysteries of His moral government to be contemplated through the medium or His tender love. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 21
I . . . heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying . . . Write. —Revelation 1:10, 11
It is very sweet to note that a voice from heaven said to John, “Write.” Does not that voice come to us? Are there not those who would taste the joys of heaven if we wrote them words of forgiveness and affection? Are there not others who would dry their tears if we would remind them of past joys, when we were poor as they are now? Nay, could not some, who read these …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 20
In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. —John 16:33
Tribulation is God’s threshing—not to destroy us, but to get what is good, heavenly, and spiritual in us separated from what is wrong, earthly, and fleshly. Nothing less than blows of pain will do this. The evil clings so to the good, the golden wheat of goodness in us is so wrapped up in the strong chaff of the old life that only the heavy flail of suffering can produce the separation. — …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 19
They shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel. —Zechariah 4:10
It is joy to the Christian to know that the plummet is now in the hands of our great Zerubbabel, and that when He comes forth, the world’s misrule shall be over. The false standards and false estimates of men shall be swept away. The standards of “expediency,” of “conscience,” of “every man thinking as he likes, if he is only sincere”—these, and all similar refuges of lies shall be like a spider’s web. The measure …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 18
He which stablisheth us . . . in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. —2 Corinthians 1:21, 22
When a Christian is “sealed” by the Holy Ghost, “sealed” as the property of his Master, there will be no need to ask, “Whose image and superscription is this” upon the “sealed” one? The King’s, of course. Anyone can see the image.
Of what use is a “seal” if it cannot be seen?
Is the King’s image visibly, permanently, stamped …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 17
Who is my neighbor? —Luke 10:29
“Who is thy neighbor?” It is the sufferer, wherever, whoever, whatsoever he be. Wherever thou hearest the cry of distress, wherever thou seest anyone brought across thy path by the chances and changes of life (that is, by the Providence of God), whom it is in thy power to help—he, stranger or enemy though he be—he is thy neighbor. —A. P. Stanley
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 16
Not I, but Christ liveth in me. —Galatians 2:20
The wonder of the life in Jesus is this—and you will find it so, and you have found it so, if you have ever taken your New Testament and tried to make it the rule of your daily life—that there is not a single action that you are called upon to do of which you need be, of which you will be, in any serious doubt for ten minutes as to what Jesus Christ, if He were here, Jesus Christ being here, would …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 15
He hath said. —Hebrews 13:5
If we can only grasp these words of faith, we have an all-conquering weapon in our hand. What doubt is there that 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? “He hath said!” Yes; whether for delight in our quietude, or for strength in our conflict, “He hath said!” must be our daily resort.
Since “He hath said” is the source of all wisdom, and …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 14
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. —Psalm 90:1
You cannot detain the eagle in the forest. You may gather around him a chorus of the choicest birds; you may give him a perch on the goodliest pine; you may charge winged messengers to bring him choicest dainties; but he will spurn them all. Spreading his lordly wings, and with his eye on the Alpine cliff, he will soar away to his own ancestral halls amid the munitions of rocks and the wild music of tempest and waterfall.
The …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 13
Choose you this day whom ye will serve. —Joshua 24:15
Choice and service—these were demanded of the Israelites; these are demanded of you, these only. Choice and service—in these are the whole of life. —Mark Hopkins