Classic public-domain readings for today from Morning and Evening and Faith's Checkbook.
Faith's Checkbook
Sept. 6 — A STRONG HEART
Ps. 27:14
Sept. 6
A STRONG HEART
"Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen
thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord" Ps. 27:14
Wait! Wait! Let your waiting be on the Lord! He is worth waiting
for. He never disappoints the waiting soul.
While waiting keep up your spirits. Expect a great deliverance, and
be ready to praise God for it.
The promise which should cheer you is in the middle of the verse --
"He shall strengthen thine heart." This goes at once to the place
where you need help. If the heart be sound, all the rest of the system
will work well. The heart wants calming and cheering; and both of
these will come if it be strengthened. A forceful heart rests and
rejoices, and throbs force into the whole man.
No one else can get at that secret urn of life, the heart, so as to
pour strength into it. He alone who made it can make it strong. God is
full of strength, …
Morning, September 6
Go To Evening Reading
“In the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine
as lights in the world.”
Philippians 2:15
We use lights to make manifest . A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could
not live with him a week without knowing the gospel. His conversation
should be such that all who are about him should clearly perceive
whose he is, and whom he serves; and should see the image of Jesus
reflected in his daily actions. Lights are intended for guidance . We are to help those around us who are in the dark. We are to hold
forth to them the Word of life. We are to point sinners to the Saviour,
and the weary to a divine resting-place. Men sometimes read their
Bibles, and fail to understand them; we should be ready, like Philip,
to instruct the inquirer in the meaning of God’s Word, the way of salvation, and the life o…
Evening, September 6
Go To Morning Reading
“If ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.”
Galatians 5:18
He who looks at his own character and position from a legal point
of view, will not only despair when he comes to the end of his reckoning, but if he be a wise man he will despair at the
beginning ; for if we are to be judged on the footing of the law, there shall
no flesh living be justified. How blessed to know that we dwell in
the domains of grace and not of law! When thinking of my state before
God the question is not, “Am I perfect in myself before the law?” but, “Am I perfect in Christ Jesus?” That is a very different matter. We need not enquire, “Am I without sin naturally?” but, “Have I been washed in the fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness?” It is not “Am I in myself well pleasing to God?” but it is “Am I accepted in the Beloved?” The Christian views…
