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Preparing God's Word for your heart
“The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.”
Isaiah 40:8
Preparing God's Word for your heart
“The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.”
Isaiah 40:8
Art thou suddenly called to occupy a difficult position full of responsibilities? Go forward, counting on Me! I am giving thee the position full of difficulties for the reason that Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy works and in all the business of thy hands.
This day I place in thy hands a pot of holy oil. Draw from it freely, My child, that all the circumstances arising along thy pathway, each word that gives thee pain, each manifestation of thy feebleness, each interruption trying to thy patience, may be anointed with this oil.
Interruptions are Divine instructions.
The sting will go in the measure in which thou seest Me in all things.
“Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day. . . . They are your life” (Deuteronomy 32:46–47).
“I will now turn aside, and see this great sight” (Exodus 3:3 KJV).
Our Father is always trying to get us to the place of spiritual discoveries. God is not interested in getting mere information into our souls; He wants us to have a revelation of Himself. God has challenging futures for us and will go to miracle lengths to get us to pay attention. If God calls me from ease and idleness, it will be that His under girdings are sufficient for a great service. “I will turn aside,” for it is God who calls me.
As “my expectation is from him” (Psalm 62:5 KJV), I will listen today.
An Israelitish master was to give his bondservant liberty in due time, and when he left his service he was to start him in life with a liberal portion, This was to be done heartily and cheerfully, and then the Lord promised to bless the generous act.
The spirit of this precept, and, indeed, the whole law of Christ, binds us to treat people well.
We ought to remember how the Lord has dealt with us, and that this renders it absolutely needful that we should deal graciously with others, It becomes those to be generous who are the children of a gracious God.
How can we expect our great Master to bless us in our business if we oppress those who serve us?
What a benediction is here set before the liberal mind! To be blessed in all that we do is to be blessed indeed.
The Lord will send us this partly in prosperity, partly in content of mind, and partly in a sense of His favor, which is the best of all blessings.
He can make us feel that we are under His special care and are surrounded by His peculiar love.
This makes this earthly life a joyous prelude to the life to come.
God's blessing is more than a fortune. It maketh rich and addeth no sorrow therewith.