Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 23
Under His shadow. —Song of Solomon 2:3
Frances Ridley Havergal says: I seem to see four pictures suggested by that: under the shadow of a rock in a weary plain; under the shadow of a tree; closer still, under the shadow of His wing; nearest and closest, in the shadow of His hand. Surely that hand must be the pierced hand, that may oftentimes press us sorely, and yet evermore encircling, upholding and shadowing!
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 22
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. —Hebrews 4:9
How sweet the music of this first heavenly chime floating across the waters of death from the towers of the New Jerusalem. Pilgrim, faint under thy long and arduous pilgrimage, hear it! It is rest. Soldier, carrying still upon thee blood and dust of battle, hear it! It is rest. Voyager, tossed on the waves of sin and sorrow, driven hither and thither on the world’s heaving ocean of vicissitude, hear it! The haven is in sight; the very waves that are …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 21
Show me Thy ways, O LORD; teach me Thy paths. —Psalm 25:4
There is a path in which every child of God is to walk, and in which alone God can accompany him. —Denham Smith
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 20
My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee, and will look up. —Psalm 5:3
The morning is the gate of the day, and should be well guarded with prayer. It is one end of the thread on which the day’s actions are strung, and should be well knotted with devotion. If we felt more the majesty of life we should be more careful of its mornings. He who rushes from his bed to his business and waiteth not …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 19
Thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron. —Exodus 28:2
Have we no garments of blue, and purple, and beautiful suggestiveness? We have garments of praise; we are clothed with the Lord Jesus. And have we no ornaments? The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit is, in the sight of God, of great price. And have we no golden bells? We have the golden bells of holy actions. Our words are bells, our actions are bells, our purposes are bells. Whenever we move, our motion is thus understood to be a motion …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 18
All things work together for good to them that love God. —Romans 8:28
In one thousand trials it is not five hundred of them that work for the believer’s good, but nine hundred and ninety-nine of them, and one beside. —George Müller
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 17
Elisha said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see. —2 Kings 6:17
This is the prayer we need to pray for ourselves and for one another, “Lord, open our eyes that we may see;” for the world all around us, as well as around the prophet, is full of God’s horses and chariots, waiting to carry us to places of glorious victory. And when our eyes are thus opened, we shall see in all the events of life, whether great or small, whether joyful or sad, …
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 …