Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 27
A great multitude…stood before the throne. —Revelation 7:9
A station on the feet in front of the throne in heaven is the effect of being often on the knees before the throne on earth. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 26
I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do. —John 17:4
Was the work of the Master indeed done? Was not its heaviest task yet to come? He had not yet met the dread hour of death. Why did He say that His work was done? It was because He knew that, when the will is given, the battle is ended. He was only in the shadows of the garden; but to conquer these shadows was already to conquer all. He who has willed to die has already triumphed over …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 25
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. —Galatians 6:2
By lifting the burdens of others we lose our own. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 24
She took for him an ark of bulrushes…and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. —Exodus 2:3
The mother of Moses laid the ark in the flags by the river’s brink. Aye, but before doing so, she laid it on the heart of God! She could not have laid it so courageously upon the Nile, if she had not first devoutly laid it upon the care and love of God.
We are often surprised at the outward calmness of men who are called upon to do unpleasant and most …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 23
See then that ye walk circumspectly. —Ephesians 5:15
There is no such thing as negative influence. We are all positive in the place we occupy, making the world better or making it worse. —T. DeWitt Talmage
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 22
And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send. —Exodus 4:13
It was a very grudging assent. It was as much as to say, “Since Thou art determined to send me and I must undertake the mission, then let it be so; but I would that it might have been another, and I go because I am compelled.” So often do we shrink back from the sacrifice or obligation to which God calls us, that we think we are going to our …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 21
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. —Psalm 23:3
He always has a purpose in His leading. He knows where the bits of green pasture are, and He would lead His flock to these. The way may be rough, but it is the right way to the pasture. “Paths of righteousness” may not be straight paths; but they are paths that lead somewhere—to the right place. Many desert paths are illusive. They start out clear and plain, but soon they are lost in the sands. They go …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 20
All things work together for good to them that love God. —Romans 8:28
If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 19
Their eyes were holden. —Luke 24:16
Their eyes were opened. —Luke 24:31
There is much precious significance in this. The Lord is often present in our lives in things that we do not dream possess any significance. We are asking God about something which needs His mighty working, and the very instrument by which He is to work is by our side, perhaps for weeks and months and years all unrecognized, until suddenly, some day it grows luminous and glorious with the very presence of the Lord, and becomes the mighty instrument …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 18
They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary, and they shall walk, and not faint. —Isaiah 40:31
The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself as to how it is to cross rivers. —Selected