Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 15
In whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise. —Ephesians 1:13
The Lord puts a seal upon His own, that everybody may know them. The sealing in your case is the Spirit producing in you likeness to the Lord. The holier you become, the seal is the more distinct and plain, the more evident to every passer-by, for then will men take knowledge of you that you have been with Jesus. —Andrew Bonar
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 14
At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed. —Numbers 9:23
This is the secret of peace and calm elevation. If an Israelite, in the desert, had taken it into his head to make some movement independent of Jehovah; if he took it upon him to move when the crowd was at rest, or to halt while the crowd was moving, we can easily see what the result would have been. And so it will ever be with us. If …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 13
All…saw his face as it had been the face of an angel. —Acts 6:15
The face is made every day by its morning prayer, and by its morning look out of windows which open upon heaven. —Joseph Parker
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 12
What means these stones? —Joshua 4:21
Ye also as living stones. —1 Peter 2:5
There should be something so remarkable, so peculiar about the life and conversation of a Christian that men should be compelled to ask, “What does this mean?”…Is there anything in your character, words, and habits of life so different from the world around you that men are involuntarily compelled to ask themselves or others, “What does this mean?” Not that there is to be a forced singularity, a peculiarity for the sake of being peculiar; that were merely …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 11
As many as I love I…chasten. —Revelation 3:19
I once saw a dark shadow resting on the bare side of a hill. Seeking its cause I saw a little cloud, bright as the light, floating in the clear blue above. Thus it is with our sorrow. It may be dark and cheerless here on earth; yet look above and you shall see it to be but a shadow of His brightness whose name is Love. —Dean Alford
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 10
He loveth our nation and he hath built us a synagogue. —Luke 7:5
Marble and granite are perishable monuments, and their inscriptions may be seldom read. Carve your names on human hearts; they alone are immortal! —Theodore Cuyler
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 9
Therefore will the LORD wait, that He may be gracious unto you. —Isaiah 30:18
This is God’s way. In the darkest hours of the night His tread draws near across the billows. As the day of execution is breaking, the angel comes to Peter’s cell. When the scaffold for Mordecai is complete, the royal sleeplessness leads to a reaction in favor of the threatened race.
Ah, soul, it may have come to the worst with thee ere thou art delivered; but thou wilt be! God may keep thee waiting, but He …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 8
Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy fathers house. —Genesis 12:1
Abraham…was gathered to his people. —Genesis 25:8
After all communion we dwell as upon islands, dotted over a great archipelago, each upon his little rock with the sea dashing between us; but the time comes when, if our hearts are set upon that great Lord whose presence makes us one, there shall be no more sea and all the isolated rocks shall be parts of a great continent…If we cultivate that sense of detachment from the …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 7
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD. —Hosea 6:3
The Lord has brought us into the pathway of the knowledge of Him, and bids us pursue that path through all its strange meanderings until it opens out upon the plain where God’s throne is. Our life is a following on to know the Lord. We marvel at some of the experiences through which we are called to pass, but afterwards we see that they afforded us some new knowledge of our Lord…We have not to …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - February 6
He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk even as He walked. —1 John 2:6
The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ. —Selected