Gems for the Week
July 11 - 15
"I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He
is able to keep that which I have committed unto
him against that day." (2 Timothy 1:12)
Now Lord, I give myself to Thee,
I would be wholly thine;
As Thou hast given Thyself to me,
And Thou art wholly mine;
O take me, seal me for Thine own,
Thine altogether, Thine alone.
(Frances Ridley Havergal - Kept for the Master's Use)
N.J. Hiebert # 3032
"My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect
in weakness." (2 Corinthians 12:9)
The father does not give to his son at school enough money to last him several years, but, as the bills of tuition and board and clothing and books come in, pays them. So God will not give you grace all at once for the future, but will meet all your exigencies as they come. (T. De Witt Talmage - Born 1832)
N.J. Hiebert # 3033
"And Jesus said . . . Give ye them to eat. And they say, We have but five loaves . . . He saith, Bring them to me." (Matthew 14:16-18)
He might have turned the stones to bread, Who once had
made the water wine,
Or called the manna down from heaven To show His power divine;
But, "Give ye them to eat," He said, And took His servants' little store;
Though scarce enough for one it seemed, He blessed and made it more.
And so He let them share with Him His joy, His work of feeding men,
And all they gave Him He returned A thousand-fold again.
Here in the wilderness to-day The starving nations wait for bread;
And still He saith, "Give ye to them And let the world be fed."
What matter though our loaves be few? Alike the little and the much
When He shall add to what we have His multiplying touch.
(Annie Johnson Flint - Best Loved Poems)
N.J. Hiebert # 3034
"And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God." (1 John 3:19-21)
To have a good conscience, we must keep the conscience pure. Paul exercised himself to have in everything a conscience without offense toward God and man. When we have grieved the Holy Spirit, we do not feel the love of God in the same way. A conscience defiled cannot be at its ease before God; and when God enters, there are dark corners that one hides from Him. it is impossible then to have that perfect confidence in reasoning with God as a friend. If we have beforehand the sense of our feebleness, we shall be forced to seek strength in God. (Christian Truth - Vol. 15 - 1962)
N.J. Hiebert # 3035
"One of the soldiers with a spear pierced His side, and forthwith
came there out blood and water." (John 19:34)
God forbid that a word should be said to obscure that blood, or to turn a soul from its justifying value. But out of the Lord's side flowed water and blood, and we need both. The blood atones, the water purifies; and as the blood abides shed and efficacious once for all, in contrast with the ineffectual and many sacrifices of the Jews, the washing of water by the Word is not only applied at the first but is needed to purge all through. Where this is not seen, confusion follows, and the enfeebling, if not destruction, of fundamental truth. (William Kelly)
N.J. Hiebert # 3036
