Latest Gems
December 7 - 8
"At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, My God, Why hast Thou forsaken Me?" (Mark 15:34)
In this fourth cry of our Lord from the cross, there is a solemn warning. The awful death that He died opens a window on the terrible consequences of eternal death. Since there came forth from Him this terrible, agonizing cry of utter desolation, what must it portend for those who, for their own sin, fully and justly suffer what the Apostle Paul calls, "everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord?" (2 Thessalonians 1:9)
(W. Ross Rainey)
N.J. Hiebert # 2819
"He stayeth His rough wind in the day of the east wind." (Isaiah 27:8)
"His rough wind." These words were a comfort to me this morning as I thought of all who are in pain, or any trial of the flesh. By the time that wind reaches any child of the Father it is His wind.
And "He stayeth His rough wind in the day of the east wind." Things will never be too hard to bear. "We are troubled on every side yet not distressed; we are perplexed but not in despair". I have been finding much food in 2 Corinthians 4, strong food, and as I think of all who are out in the rough wind, His rough wind, I am comforted. (Amy Carmichael - Edges of His Ways)
N.J. Hiebert # 2820
