When not a sparrow falls to the ground without your Father, and the very hairs of your head are all numbered, will you mistrust and doubt him?
Category: Devotionals
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We can only see one side of a Christian's death — the setting side, the expiring breath, the vanishing life, the cold clay corpse. We cannot see the risings on the other side — the angel convoy, Heaven's open gate, the Savior's welcome of the enraptured departed one. Yet it is none the less real.
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Forward Lies the Crown, Onward is the Goal – C.H. Spurgeon
The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth.
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Christ is Sovereign Over All of Our Trials | John Newton
What a comfort to be assured that our afflictions do not happen to us at random — but are all under the direction of infinite wisdom and love, and all engaged to work together for good to those who love the Lord!
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God is On His Throne | Grief Quote #7
Why dost thou worry thyself? What use can thy fretting serve? Thou art on board a vessel which thou couldst not steer even if the great Captain put thee at the helm, of which thou couldst not so much as reef a sail, yet thou worriest as if thou wert captain and helmsman. Oh, be quiet; God is Master!
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C.H. Spurgeon | Evening, January 10
In my flesh shall I see God.Job 19:26 Mark the subject of Job's devout anticipation "I shall see God." He does not say, "I shall see the saints" - though doubtless that will be untold felicity - but, "I shall see God." It is not - "I shall see the pearly gates, I shall behold …
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When Believers Die | John Newton
Death is but a temporary separation. Those who are gone before us, are waiting for us. Oh! It will be a happy meeting before the throne of the Lamb--out of the reach of sin and sorrow, to meet and part no more!
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Bells Across the Snow | Streams in the Desert 12/24
If we could but hear them singing, As they are singing now, If we could but see the radiance Of the crown on each dear brow, There would be no sigh to smother, No hidden tear to flow, As we listen in the starlight To the “bells across the snow.”
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Strong in Suffering | Streams in the Desert 12/03
"Afflictions cannot injure when blended with submission. Ice breaks many a branch, and so I see a great many persons bowed down and crushed by their afflictions. But now and then I meet one that sings in affliction, and then I thank God for my own sake as well as his. There is no such …
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Our Father’s Hand | J.C. Ryle
Nothing whatever, whether great or small, can happen to a believer — without God's ordering and permission. (J.C. Ryle, 'The Gospel of Luke' 1858) courtesy of gracegems.org 'I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that can do no more. . . . Are not five sparrows sold for …
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It Must Be Bought – Streams in the Desert: November 3
Wrung from the troubled spirit, in hard hours Of weakness, solitude, perchance of pain, Truth springs like harvest from the well-ploughed field, And the soul feels it has not wept in vain.
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After The Frost – Streams in the Desert 09/25
Why go I mourning” Psalm 42:9 Canst thou answer this, believer? Canst thou find any reason why thou art so often mourning instead of rejoicing? Why yield to gloomy anticipations? Who told thee that the night would never end in day? Who told thee that the winter of thy discontent would proceed from frost to …
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The Keys of Death are in the Savior’s Hands
The power of death being in the hands of the Redeemer — the duration of human life is, in every instance, determined by Him.
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Joy and Sorrow United
Joined in God – Streams in the Desert 8/19 “As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing”2 Cor. 6:10 When Sorrow sang, her notes were like the low sweet call of the nightingale, and in her eyes was the unexpectant gaze of one who has ceased to look for coming gladness. She could weep in tender sympathy with …
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My Pleasant Infant
Our best wisdom will be--to hold a loose grip on every comfort which can perish, and to fasten our grip on eternal things. The more we have our hearts in heaven--the less will the troubles of time distress us.
You Can Trust Him 