Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 16
And Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights. —Exodus 24:18
The life of fellowship with God cannot be built up in a day. It begins with the habitual reference of all to Him, hour by hour, as Moses did in Egypt. But it moves on to more and longer periods of communion; and it finds its consummation and bliss in days and nights of intercession and waiting and holy intercourse. —F. B. Meyer
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 15
They shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint. —Isaiah 40:31
This, my soul, is the triumph of thy being—to be able to walk with God! Flight belongs to the young soul; it is the romance of religion. To run without weariness belongs to the lofty soul; it is the beauty of religion. But to walk and not faint belongs to the perfect soul; it is the power of religion.
Canst thou walk in white through the stained thoroughfares of …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 14
Every day will I bless Thee; and I will praise Thy name for ever and ever. —Psalm 145:2
There is a very beautiful device by which the Japanese are accustomed to express their wishes for their friends. It is the figure of a drum in which the birds have built their nest. The story told of it is that once there lived a good king, so anxiously concerned for the welfare of his people that at the palace gate he set a drum, and whoever had any wrong to be redressed or …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 13
Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much fruit. —John 15:8
What a possibility, what an inspiration, that we can enhance the glory of “our Father!” Our hearts leap at the thought.
How can this be done? By bearing “leaves,”—a profession of love for Him? No. By bearing some fruit? No. “That ye bear much fruit.” In the abundance of the yield is the joy, the glory of the husbandman. We should, therefore, aim to be extraordinary, “hundred-fold” Christians, satisfied with none but the largest yield. Our lives should be packed …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 12
Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. —John 20:29
The seen are shadows: the substance is found in the unseen. . . No doubt, in Christ, the foundation of our faith is unseen; but so is that of yonder tower that lifts its tall erect form among the waves over which it throws a saving light. It appears to rest on the rolling billows; but, beneath these, invisible and immovable, lies the solid rock on which it stands secure; and when the hurricane roars above, and breakers roar below, I could …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 11
Count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. —James 1:2
We cannot be losers by trusting God, for He is honored by faith, and most honored when faith discerns His love and truth behind a thick cloud of His ways and providence. Happy those who are thus tried! Let us only be clear of unbelief and a guilty conscience. We shall hide ourselves in the rock and pavilion of the Lord, sheltered beneath the wings of everlasting love till all calamities be overpast. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 10
My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. —Philippians 4:19
What a source—“God!” What a standard—“His riches in glory!” What a channel—“Christ Jesus!” It is your sweet privilege to place all your need over against His riches, and lose sight of the former in the presence of the latter. His exhaustless treasury is thrown open to you, in all the love of His heart; go and draw upon it, in the artless simplicity of faith, and you will never have occasion to …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 9
He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much. —Luke 16:10
The least action of life can be as surely done from the loftiest motive as the highest and noblest. Faithfulness measures acts as God measures them. True conscientiousness deals with our duties as God deals with them. Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they be printed in. “Large” and “small” are not words for the vocabulary of conscience. It knows only two words—right and wrong. — …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 8
Take good heed therefore unto your souls. —Joshua 23:11 (Margin)
Gold cannot be used for currency as long as it is mixed with the quartz and rock in which it lies imbedded. So your soul is useless to God till taken out from sin and earthliness and selfishness, in which it lies buried. By the regenerating power of the Spirit you must be separated unto Christ, stamped with His image and superscription, and made into a divine currency, which shall bear His likeness among men. The Christian is, so to …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 7
Now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. —Ephesians 5:8
The influence we exert in the world is created by our relationship to Jesus Christ; and our relationship to Jesus Christ is revealed by our influence. —Selected