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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
Bending down to us in infinite love, God says: “My child, how needy are you? What heavy burden is upon you? What grievous sorrow is darkening your faith? What fear of future ill is shadowing your pathway? What spiritual thirst do you want slaked? What barrenness of soul enriched? What do you need this hour? For I will deliver the needy.”
To miss a need may be to miss a miracle!
You are just the one God is looking for—just the one who is ripe for deliverance—just the special individual to whom His promise is made. The human incompleteness meets the Divine completeness, and the want is filled. The deepest yearning in every soul finds in Him the longed-for satisfaction.
Do not be too anxious to be free from needs, unless you want to be free from prayer-power.
We need our needs!
O God, I need Thee!
When morning crowds the night away And the tasks of waking seize my mind, I need Thy Poise.
O God, I need Thee!
When clashes come with those Who walk the way with me, I need Thy Smile.
O God, I need Thee!
When the path to take before me lies, I see it—courage flees—I need Thy Faith.
O God, I need Thee!
When the day’s work is done, Tired, discouraged, wasted; I need Thy Rest.
The needy cries; what else can he do? His cry is heard of God; what else need he do? Let the needy reader take to crying at once, for this will be his wisdom. Do not cry in the ears of friends, for even if they can help you it is only because the Lord enables them. The nearest way is to go straight to God and let your cry come up before Him. Straightforward makes the best runner: run to the Lord and not to secondary causes.
"Alas!" you cry, "I have no friend or helper." So much the better; you can rely upon God in both capacities-as without supplies and without helpers. Make your double need your double plea. Even for temporal mercies you may wait upon God, for He careth for His children in these temporary concerns. As for spiritual necessities, which are the heaviest of all, the Lord will hear your cry and will deliver you and supply you.
O poor friend, try your rich God. O helpless one, lean on His help. He has never failed me, and I am sure He will never fail you. Come as a beggar, and God will not refuse you help. Come with no plea but His grace. Jesus is King; will He let you perish of want? What! Did you forget this?