Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 29
With God all things are possible. —Mark 10:27
Unbelief says, “How can such and such things be?” It is full of “hows;” but faith has one great answer to the ten thousand “hows,” and that answer is—God! —C. H. Mackintosh
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 28
He touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank. —Genesis 32:32
Whatever it is that enables a soul, whom God designs to bless, to stand out against Him, God will touch. It may be the pride of wealth, or of influence, or of affection; but it will not be spared—God will touch it. It may be something as natural as a sinew; but if it robs a man of spiritual blessing God will touch it. It may be as small a thing as a sinew; but its influence in making …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 27
These have turned the world upside down. —Acts 17:6
None of these things move me. —Acts 20:24
The men that move the world are the ones who do not let the world move them. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 26
The Lord . . . thy habitation. —Psalm 91:9
We go home without arrangement. We plan our visits, and then go home because they are over. Duty, want, a host of things, lead us forth elsewhere; but the heart takes us home. Blessed, most blessed is he whose thoughts pass up to God, not because they are driven like a fisherman’s craft swept by the fierceness of the storm, not because they are forced by want or fear, not because they are led by the hand of duty, but because God is in his …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 25
Call to remembrance the former days. —Hebrews 10:32
The former days—times of trial, conflict, discouragement, temptation. Did we oftener call these to remembrance, with how much more delight would we make the covert of God’s faithfulness our refuge, exclaiming with the psalmist, “Because Thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of Thy wings will I rejoice.” —R. Fuller
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 24
Singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. —Colossians 3:16
Remember your life is to be a singing life. This world is God’s grand cathedral for you. You are to be one of God’s choristers, and there is to be a continual Eucharistic sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving going up from your heart, with which God shall be continually well pleased. And there should be not only the offering of the lips, but the surrender of the life with joy. Yes, with joy, and not with constraint. Every faculty …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 23
Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it. —1 Thessalonians 5:24
Earthly faithfulness is possible only by the reception of heavenly gifts. As surely as every leaf that grows is mainly water that the plant has got from the clouds, and carbon that it has got out of the atmosphere, so surely will all our good be mainly drawn from heaven and heaven’s gifts. As certainly as every lump of coal that you put upon your fire contains in itself sunbeams that have been locked up for all these …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 22
Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. —Hebrews 12:6
We should ever bear in mind that the discipline of our heavenly Father’s hand is to be interpreted in the light of our Father’s countenance; and the deep mysteries of His moral government to be contemplated through the medium or His tender love. —Selected
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 21
I . . . heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying . . . Write. —Revelation 1:10, 11
It is very sweet to note that a voice from heaven said to John, “Write.” Does not that voice come to us? Are there not those who would taste the joys of heaven if we wrote them words of forgiveness and affection? Are there not others who would dry their tears if we would remind them of past joys, when we were poor as they are now? Nay, could not some, who read these …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - November 20
In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. —John 16:33
Tribulation is God’s threshing—not to destroy us, but to get what is good, heavenly, and spiritual in us separated from what is wrong, earthly, and fleshly. Nothing less than blows of pain will do this. The evil clings so to the good, the golden wheat of goodness in us is so wrapped up in the strong chaff of the old life that only the heavy flail of suffering can produce the separation. — …