Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 13
Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much fruit. —John 15:8
What a possibility, what an inspiration, that we can enhance the glory of “our Father!” Our hearts leap at the thought.
How can this be done? By bearing “leaves,”—a profession of love for Him? No. By bearing some fruit? No. “That ye bear much fruit.” In the abundance of the yield is the joy, the glory of the husbandman. We should, therefore, aim to be extraordinary, “hundred-fold” Christians, satisfied with none but the largest yield. Our lives should be packed …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 12
Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. —John 20:29
The seen are shadows: the substance is found in the unseen. . . No doubt, in Christ, the foundation of our faith is unseen; but so is that of yonder tower that lifts its tall erect form among the waves over which it throws a saving light. It appears to rest on the rolling billows; but, beneath these, invisible and immovable, lies the solid rock on which it stands secure; and when the hurricane roars above, and breakers roar below, I could …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 11
Count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. —James 1:2
We cannot be losers by trusting God, for He is honored by faith, and most honored when faith discerns His love and truth behind a thick cloud of His ways and providence. Happy those who are thus tried! Let us only be clear of unbelief and a guilty conscience. We shall hide ourselves in the rock and pavilion of the Lord, sheltered beneath the wings of everlasting love till all calamities be overpast. —Selected
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 10
My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. —Philippians 4:19
What a source—“God!” What a standard—“His riches in glory!” What a channel—“Christ Jesus!” It is your sweet privilege to place all your need over against His riches, and lose sight of the former in the presence of the latter. His exhaustless treasury is thrown open to you, in all the love of His heart; go and draw upon it, in the artless simplicity of faith, and you will never have occasion to …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 9
He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much. —Luke 16:10
The least action of life can be as surely done from the loftiest motive as the highest and noblest. Faithfulness measures acts as God measures them. True conscientiousness deals with our duties as God deals with them. Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they be printed in. “Large” and “small” are not words for the vocabulary of conscience. It knows only two words—right and wrong. — …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 8
Take good heed therefore unto your souls. —Joshua 23:11 (Margin)
Gold cannot be used for currency as long as it is mixed with the quartz and rock in which it lies imbedded. So your soul is useless to God till taken out from sin and earthliness and selfishness, in which it lies buried. By the regenerating power of the Spirit you must be separated unto Christ, stamped with His image and superscription, and made into a divine currency, which shall bear His likeness among men. The Christian is, so to …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 7
Now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light. —Ephesians 5:8
The influence we exert in the world is created by our relationship to Jesus Christ; and our relationship to Jesus Christ is revealed by our influence. —Selected
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 6
Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord. —Exodus 14:13
Often God seems to place His children in positions of profound difficulty—leading them into a wedge from which there is no escape; contriving a situation which no human judgment would have permitted, had it been previously consulted. The very cloud conducts them thither. You may be thus involved at this very hour. It does seem perplexing and very serious to the last degree; but it is perfectly right. The issue will more than justify Him who has brought you …
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 5
The Lord is my . . . song. —Psalm 118:14
Let us think of God Himself becoming our song. This is the fullness and perfection of knowing God: so to know Him that He Himself becomes our delight; so to know Him that praise is sweetest, and fullest, and freshest, and gladdest, when we sing of Him. He who has learned this blessed secret carries the golden key of heaven—nay, he hath fetched heaven down to earth, and need not envy the angels now. —Mark Guy Pearse
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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour - January 4
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. —Psalm 34:19
All the afflictions of the righteous open out into something glorious. The prisoner is not merely delivered, but he finds an angel waiting for him at the door. And with every deliverance comes a specific blessing. One angel is named faith; another, love; another, joy; another, longsuffering; another, gentleness; another, goodness; another, meekness; another, temperance; another, peace. Each of these graces says, “We have come out of great tribulation.” —G. Bowen
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