Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 7
He that sent Me is with Me; the Father hath not left Me alone, for I do always those things that please Him. —John 8:29
He who holds nearest communion with heaven can best discharge the duties of everyday life. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 6
To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. —Philippians 1:21
Live in Christ, and you are in the suburbs of heaven. There is but a thin wall between you and the land of praises. You are within one hour's sailing of the shore of the new Canaan. —William Rutherford
As captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. —Joshua 5:14
Surely Israel might now face the foe with unwavering confidence, and sing of victory even before the battle was gained. And so may the Christian. It is to no conflict of uncertain issue that he advances; the result of the battle is not doubtful. The struggle may be severe, the warfare long; he may sometimes, like the pilgrim, be beaten to the ground, and well-nigh lose his sword; but “though cast down” he is “not destroyed.” The Captain of salvation is on his side, …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 4
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. —1 John 1:9
The same moment which brings the consciousness of sin ought to bring also the confession of it and the consciousness of forgiveness. —Smith
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 3
There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb, by the way of mount Seir, unto Kadesh-barnea. —Deuteronomy 1:2
Eleven days, and yet it took them forty years! How was this? Alas! we need not travel far for the answer. It is only too like ourselves. How slowly we get over the ground! What windings and turnings! How often we have to go back and travel over the same ground, again and again. We are slow travelers because we are slow learners. Our God is a faithful and wise, as well as a gracious …
Thought for the Quiet Hour - March 2
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. —Galatians 6:7
The most common actions of life, its every day and hour, are invested with the highest grandeur, when we think how they extend their issues into eternity. Our hands are now sowing seeds for that great harvest. We shall meet again all we are doing and have done. The graves shall give up their dead, and from the tombs of oblivion the past shall give up all that it holds in keeping, to bear true witness for or against us. — …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - March 1
Come up in the morning…and present thyself unto Me in the top of the mount. —Exodus 34:2
The morning is the time fixed for my meeting the Lord. This very word morning is as a cluster of rich grapes. Let me crush them, and drink the sacred wine.
In the morning! Then God means me to be at my best in strength and hope. I have not to climb in my weakness. In the night I have buried yesterday’s fatigue, and in the morning I take a new lease of energy.
Sweet …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 28
Forgetting those things which are behind…I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. —Philippians 3:13, 14
It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have. What we are, and where we are, is God’s providential arrangement—God’s doing, though it may be man's misdoing. Life is a series of mistakes, and he …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 27
I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me. —John 14:6
Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road thither is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way. We do not want to see far ahead—only far enough to discern Him and trace His footsteps…They who follow Christ, even through darkness, will surely reach the Father. —Henry Van Dyke
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 26
Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. —Genesis 32:1
It is in the path where God has bade us walk that we shall find the angels around us. We may meet them, indeed, on paths of our own choosing, but it will be the sort of angel that Balaam met, with a sword in his hand, mighty and beautiful, but wrathful too; and we had better not front him! But the friendly helpers, the emissaries of God’s love, the apostles of His grace, do not haunt the …