But I replied, "The God of heaven will help us succeed. We his servants will start
rebuilding this wall. ..."
Attack At Daybreak
At the close of the first day of the battle of Shiloh, a day of severe Union reverses,
General Grant was met by his much discouraged chief-of-staff, McPherson, who said:
“Things look bad, General. We have lost half our artillery and a third of the
infantry. Our line is broken, and we are pushed back nearly to the river.” Grant made
no reply, and McPherson asked impatiently what he intended to do. “Do? Why, reform
the lines and attack at daybreak. Won’t they be surprised?”
Surprised they were, and routed before nine o’clock. Every man that succeeds meets
just such crises, and must avert disaster with a prompt reforming of lines and early
attack.
Daily Meditations by Pat Nordman ©
August 5
The woman was crying. "My friend from church came and she told me I don't have enough
faith or God would heal me. But my doctor told me it's terminal." It is cruel for a
professing lover of God to tell a dying person he or she hasn't enough faith. God does not
heal everyone. We don't know why; the secret belongs with God. Is it any wonder some
people hate God when they hear this nonsense? It's sad enough to witness death, but it is
an even worse sorrow to pick up the pieces left behind by Job's comforters who forget that
God gives grace to the dying as well as to the living. This is what we can share.
August 6
"How blessed you will be, sowing your seed by every stream..." (Isaiah
32:20), so..."Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we
will reap a harvest if we do not give up" (Galatians 6:9), "...Because
you know that the Lord will reward everyone for wahtever good he does..."
(Ephesians 6:8).
There is a law of spiritual reciprocity, and it is God's justice. The first of Murphy's
Laws whimsically states that no good deed goes unpunished. It may seem so at times, but
our God doesn't work that way. Justice will be done in a way we may not see for now. This
is yet another of God's marvelous wills for us.
Pat Nordman ©
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| "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God." – Romans 8:28 |
"Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?" - Numbers 32:6 |
Upon some points a believer is absolutely sure. He knows, for instance, that God sits in the stern-sheets of the vessel when it rocks most. He believes that an invisible hand is always on the world's tiller, and that wherever providence may drift, Jehovah steers it. |
If the diamond must be vexed upon the wheel, are we to be made perfect without suffering? Who hath commanded the wind to cease from blowing because our bark is on the deep? |
| Spurgeon's Morning for August 6 | Spurgeon's Evening for August 6 |
| "Watchman, what of the night?" – Isaiah 21:11 |
"Let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen." - Psalm 72:196 |
What enemies are abroad? Errors are a numerous horde, and new ones appear every hour: against what heresy am I to be on my guard? Sins creep from their lurking places when the darkness reigns; I must myself mount the watch-tower, and watch unto prayer. |
Turn your eyes to Calvary. Behold the Lord of Life nailed to a cross, with the thorn-crown about his brow, with bleeding head, and hands, and feet. What! can you look upon this miracle of miracles, the death of the Son of God, without feeling within your bosom a marvellous adoration that language never can express? |
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August 5 Isa 22:1 - 26:21 |
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But my mouth would encourage you;
comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
Job 16:5 (NIV)
He Turns Toward by Cathy Vinson
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Oh, to have the face of God turn towards us! W Spencer Walton knew it as the "sunshine of His face." If He turns toward us, we know golden sunlight upon ourselves. "To, to turn." Will He? "To, to turn" Biblically means to permit. If God turns to a situation, He must be choosing for it. His face turned to us is what we long for. This must have been the heart's cry of the late Keith Green as he wrote..."Oh, Lord, You're beautiful. Your face is all I seek. And when YOUR EYES ARE ON this child, Your grace abounds to me." Will we be able to leave immaturity and somehow proceed to maturity, a maturity that exercises in the strong sinews and tendons of the Word and can discern good from evil (Heb 6:1-2)? How can we possibly do this, go on to these things? "This we will do if God permits [turns to us]." The choice of Authority. In the same way as Agrippa towards Paul, "permitting him to speak" (Acts 26:1) and King Xerxes towards Esther, permitting her entrance, so the choice of the Holy Potentate is at hand to turn to us. May He turn to us. We may find this in "He said 'Seek you My face'; my heart said unto You, 'Your face, Lord, I will seek" (Ps 27:8). Send a note to Cathy Vinson , the writer of this devotion. |
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