Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 6
They made me keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. —Song of Solomon 1:6
Our attention is here drawn to a danger which is preeminently one of this day: the intense activity of our times may lead to zeal in service to the neglect of personal communion; but such neglect will not only lessen the value of the service, but tend to incapacitate us for the highest service. —J. Hudson Taylor
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 5
That night they caught nothing. —John 21:3
God may let the sinful world succeed in their forbidden schemes, but, blessed be His name, He does not allow His chosen ones to prosper in the path which leads them out of His holy will! He has a storm to send after every Jonah, and an empty net for every unbelieving and inconsistent Simon. —A. B. Simpson
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 4
All the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever. —Genesis 13:15
God’s promises are ever on the ascending scale. One leads up to another, fuller and more blessed than itself. In Mesopotamia God said, “I will show thee the land.” At Bethel, “This is the land.” Here, “I will give thee all the land, and children innumerable as the grains of sand.” And we shall find even these eclipsed.
It is thus that God allures us to saintliness. Not giving anything till we have …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 3
Always rejoicing. —2 Corinthians 6:10
No Christian can ever know what is meant by those two little words, “always rejoicing,” but the Christian who takes up his cross and follows Jesus. —W. Hay Aitken
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 2
The LORD God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. —Genesis 2:7
And so this soul of mine is a compound of two worlds—dust and deity! It touches the boundary line of two hemispheres. It is allied on one side to the divine; on the other, to the beast of the field. Its beginning is from beneath, but its culmination is from above; it is started from the dust of the ground, but …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 1
In the morning came the word of the LORD unto me. —Ezekiel 12:8
A quiet hour spent alone with God at the beginning of the day is the best beginning for the toils and cares of active business. A brief season of prayer, looking above for wisdom and grace and strength, and seeking for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, helps us to carry our religion into the business of the day. It brings joy and peace within the heart. And as we place all our concerns in the care …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 31
The children of your Father which is in heaven. —Matthew 5:45
The best name by which we can think of God is Father. It is a loving, deep, sweet, heart-touching name, for the name of father is in its nature full of inborn sweetness and comfort. Therefore, also, we must confess ourselves children of God, for by this name we deeply touch our God, since there is not a sweeter sound to the father than the voice of the child. —Martin Luther
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 30
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom. —Song of Solomon 2:15
How numerous the little foxes are! Little compromises with the world; disobedience to the still, small voice in little things; little indulgences of the flesh to the neglect of duty; little strokes of policy; doing evil in little things that good may come; and the beauty, and the fruitfulness of the vine are sacrificed! —J. Hudson Taylor
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 29
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. —Proverbs 4:18
Have I begun this path of heavenly love and knowledge now? Am I progressing in it? Do I feel some dawnings of the heavenly light, earnests and antepasts of the full day of glory? Let all God's dealings serve to quicken me in my way. Let every affection it may please Him to send, be as the moving pillar-cloud of old, beckoning me to move my tent onward, saying, “Arise ye and …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 28
God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. —Genesis 1:4
No sooner is there a good thing in the world than a division is necessary. Light and darkness have no communion; God has divided them, let us not confound them. Sons of light must not have fellowship with deeds, doctrines, or deceits of darkness. The children of the day must be sober, honest, and bold in their Lord’s work, leaving the works of darkness to those who shall dwell in it forever.
We …