Gems worth pondering
May 9
"Jesus Christ the SAME yesterday, and today, and for ever."
(Hebrews 13:8)
"ABLE to succour them that are tempted." (Hebrews 2:18)
"ABLE also to save them to the uttermost." (Hebrews 7:25)
"ABLE to make all grace abound toward you." (2 Corinthians 9:8)
"ABLE to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think." (Ephesians 3:20)
"ABLE to keep you from falling, and present you faultless." (Jude 24)
(Till HE Come - Oct. - Nov. 1972)
N.J Hiebert # 3699
May 10
"Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun." (Exodus 17:10-12)
It is edifying to mark the contrast between Moses on the hill and Christ on the throne. The hands of our great Intercessor can never hang down. His intercession never fluctuates . "He ever liveth to make intercession for them" (Hebrews 7:25). His intercession is never ceasing and all prevailing. Having taken His place on high, in the power of divine righteousness, He acts for us, according to what He is, and according to the infinite perfection of what He has done. His hands can never hang down, nor can He need any one to hold them up. (Extract - Christian Truth - Vol. 21 - August 1968)
N.J. Hiebert # 3700
May 11
THE PREVALENCE OF SORROW
"Man is born to sorrow, as the sparks fly upward."
(Job 5:7)
"All history narrates it (Job 5:7); all poetry sings of it; all biography confesses it; all experience teems with it; there is not one beating heart among us all that does not know it. And mark that while righteousness brings blessedness and peace, it does not bring exemption from life's bitter trials."
So said a great preacher of the Victorian era; and the testimony of the Bible and the experience of the saints right down the centuries bear witness to the truth of his words. Philosophers may deride Genesis 3, but they cannot account for the facts of life without its aid. For that little section of the Book of God not only explains how sin came into the world, but also throws light on the sorrow which ever accompanies it (Genesis 3:16,17).
In a world which has been completely disarranged by sin, the experience of sorrow in one form or another is inevitable; that nevertheless God, Whose prerogative it is to bring good out of evil, uses it for the enrichment of the character and the deepening of the spiritual life of His people; that indeed it is an indispensable prerequisite in all who would attain to skill in comfort's art, and who would strengthen those that mourn. In other words, sorrow is common, purposeful, beneficent. (George Henderson - Heaven's Cure for Earth's Care)
N.J. Hiebert # 3701
