Gems worth pondering
June 18
"I, even I, am the Lord; and beside Me there is no Saviour."
(Isaiah 43:11)
"But the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the gospel is preached unto you." (1 Peter 1:25)
A striking story is told of a colonel at a dinner table loudly declaiming that in his judgment the Koran (the Mohammedan's sacred book) was vastly superior to the Bible. An earnest Christian present, spoke up. He said, "Colonel, may I ask you two questions? Have you ever read the Bible through from beginning to end?" He had to admit that he had not.
A second question was then asked, "Colonel, have you ever seen a copy of the Koran?" He had to admit that he had not.
Then came the crushing retort, "Colonel, what do you think of yourself? You made a statement that a book you have never seen is vastly superior to a book you have never read from beginning to end." There was an ominous silence for a considerable time at that dinner table. (Why I Believe the Bible - A.J. Pollock)
N.J. Hiebert # 3739
June 19
"His delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day and night."
(Psalm 1:2)
When John Wanamaker, the merchant prince, was eleven years old, he purchased a Bible. In later years he said of this purchase: "I have, of course, made large purchases of property in my time, involving millions of dollars, but it was as a boy in the country, at the age of eleven years, that I made my greatest purchase. In a little mission Sunday School I bought a small red leather Bible for $2.75, which I paid for in small installments. Looking back over my life, I see that that little red Book was the foundation on which my life has been built, and the thing which has made possible all that has counted in my life. I know now that it was the greatest investment and the most important and and far-reaching purchase I have ever mad."
Last eve I passed beside a blacksmith's door, and heard the anvil ring the vesper chime;
Then looking in, I saw upon the floor old hammers, worn with beating years of time.
"How may anvils have you had," said I, "To wear and batter all these hammers so?"
"Just one," said he, and then, with twinkling eye, "The anvil wears the hammers out, you know."
And so, though I, the anvil of God's Word, for ages skeptic blows have beat upon;
Yet, though the noise of falling blows was heard, the anvil is unharmed - the hammers gone.
(UNKOWN)
N.J. Hiebert # 3740
June 20
"Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning. Understanding is a well spring of life unto him that hath it." (Proverbs 16:20-22)
- Israel were never to forget amid the milk and honey of the land of Canaan, that which had sustained them during their forty year's sojourn in the wilderness.
- We cannot, if entering into the truth and reality of our position, hoard up.
- It is a deeply solemn thing to learn truth; for there is not a principle which we profess to have learned which we shall not have to prove practically.
- One often trembles to hear persons make high professions and use expressions of intense devotedness, whether in prayer or otherwise, lest when the hour of trial comes, there may not be the needed spiritual power to carry out what the lips have uttered.
- There is a great danger of the intellect's outstripping the conscience and the affections.
(FOOD FOR THE DESERT)
N.J. Hiebert # 3741
