Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - August 14
Leaving you an example, that ye should follow His steps. —1 Peter 2:21
I have long since ceased to pray, “Lord Jesus, have compassion on a lost world!” I remember the day and the hour when I seemed to hear the Lord rebuking me for making such a prayer. He seemed to say to me, “I have had compassion upon a lost world, and now it is for you to have compassion.” —A. J. Gordon
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - August 13
Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and He healed their sick. . . And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come He was there alone. —Matthew 14:14, 23
Do we, like Him, combine the two great elements of human character? Are our public duties, the cares, and business, and engrossments of the world, finely tempered and hallowed by a secret walk with God? If the world were to follow us from …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - August 12
As for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. —Deuteronomy 18:14
What a stepping-stone! We give thanks, often with a tearful, doubtful voice, for our spiritual mercies positive; but what an almost infinite field there is for mercies negative! We cannot even imagine all that God has suffered us not to do, not to be. —Frances Ridley Havergal
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - August 11
They that wait upon the LORD shall change their strength. —Isaiah 40:31
Lord, what a change within us one short hour
Spent in Thy presence will prevail to make!
What heavy burdens from our bosoms take!
What parched grounds refresh as with a shower!
We kneel—and all around us seems to lower.
We rise—and all the distant and the near
Stand forth in sunny outline, brave and clear.
We kneel—how weak: we rise—how full of power.
Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong
Or others—that we are not always strong; …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - August 10
The Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. —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 of the Father that He might be the Savior of men. . . Didst thou ever consider the depth of love in the heart of Jehovah, when God the Father equipped His Son for the great enterprise of mercy? If not, be this thy day’s meditation. The Father sent Him! Contemplate that subject. Think how Jesus works …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - August 9
Ye call me Teacher, and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. —John 13:13 (Margin)
How wonderful a Teacher we have! Sometimes we seek Him in the house, but He is not there. We go forth seeking Him and find Him perhaps in the wilderness or on a mountain praying, or leading some poor blind man by the hand, or eating with publicans or sinners, or asleep in a storm or conversing with a Samaritan woman, or surrounded by wrathful men, or bearing a cross. It is not merely His …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - August 8
They took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. —Acts 4:13
If I think of the world, I get the impress of the world; if I think of my trials and sorrows, I get the impress of my trials and sorrows; if I think of my failures, I get the impress of my failures; if I think of Christ, I get the impress of Christ. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - August 7
Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus. —Hebrews 12:1, 2
Think, as you sit here, of anything that you are doing that is wrong, of any habit of your life, of your self-indulgence, or of that great, pervasive habit of your life which makes you a creature of the present instead of the eternities, a creature of the material earth instead of the glorious skies. Ask yourself of …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - August 6
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. —Colossians 3:2
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. —Ecclesiastes 9:10
If we are to live separate from the world, how, since men only do well what they do with a will, are we, with affections fixed on things above, to perform aright the secular, ordinary duties of life? If our hearts are engrossed with heavenly things, how are we to obey this other, and equally divine, commandment, “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - August 5
Go in this thy might . . . have not I sent thee? —Judges 6:14
God never leaves His child to fail when in the path of obedience. —Theodore Cuyler