Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 12
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling: for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. —Philippians 2:12, 13
It is not your business and mine to study whether we shall get to heaven, or even to study whether we shall be good men; it is our business to study how we shall come into the midst of the purposes of God and have the unspeakable privilege in these few years of doing something of His work. —Phillips Brooks
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 11
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. —Galatians 6:2
However perplexed you may at any hour become about some question of truth, one refuge and resource is always at hand: you can do something for some one beside yourself. At the times when you cannot see God, there is still open to you this sacred possibility, to show God: for it is the love and kindness of human hearts through which the divine reality comes home to men, whether they name it or not. Let this thought, …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 10
A daily rate for every day. —2 Kings 25:30
One staff aids a traveler, but a bundle of staves is a heavy burden. —Charles H. Spurgeon
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 9
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. —Psalm 23:2
This suggests the rest into which our Good Shepherd leads His flock. Life is not all toil. God gives us many quiet resting-places in our pilgrim way.
Night is one of these, when, after the day’s toil, struggle, and exhaustion, we are led aside, and the curtains are drawn to shut out the noise, and He giveth His beloved sleep, in sleep giving the wonderful blessings of renewal. The Sabbath is another of these …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 8
Each one resembled the children of a king. —Judges 8:18
Frances Ridley Havergal says: “If the King is indeed near of kin to us, the royal likeness will be recognizable.”
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 7
We came unto the land whither thou sentest us…we saw the children of Anak there. —Numbers 13:27, 28.
It is when we are in the way of duty that we find giants. It was when Israel was going forward that the giants appeared. When they turned back into the wilderness they found none. —Selected
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 6
They made me keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. —Song of Solomon 1:6
Our attention is here drawn to a danger which is preeminently one of this day: the intense activity of our times may lead to zeal in service to the neglect of personal communion; but such neglect will not only lessen the value of the service, but tend to incapacitate us for the highest service. —J. Hudson Taylor
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 5
That night they caught nothing. —John 21:3
God may let the sinful world succeed in their forbidden schemes, but, blessed be His name, He does not allow His chosen ones to prosper in the path which leads them out of His holy will! He has a storm to send after every Jonah, and an empty net for every unbelieving and inconsistent Simon. —A. B. Simpson
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 4
All the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever. —Genesis 13:15
God’s promises are ever on the ascending scale. One leads up to another, fuller and more blessed than itself. In Mesopotamia God said, “I will show thee the land.” At Bethel, “This is the land.” Here, “I will give thee all the land, and children innumerable as the grains of sand.” And we shall find even these eclipsed.
It is thus that God allures us to saintliness. Not giving anything till we have …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - April 3
Always rejoicing. —2 Corinthians 6:10
No Christian can ever know what is meant by those two little words, “always rejoicing,” but the Christian who takes up his cross and follows Jesus. —W. Hay Aitken
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