God so loved that He gave – His Son
Man so hated that he took – that Son’s life. -eab, 3/3/09
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Gave – Took
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How Should You Spend Today?
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If tomorrow were the last of days,
The entrance of the eternal phase,
The beginning of condemnation or praise,
How would you spend today?
If tomorrow saw the flight of health,
Or by dusk’s light the loss of all wealth,
Coming quite aware or all by stealth,
How would you spend today?
If tomorrow your goals were lost to sight,
Your plans so great, plunged into dark night,
Never again to have hope or light,
How would you spend today?
Or – if tomorrow you were blind or lame,
And you were not ever to be the same,
Or – if tomorrow morning never came,
How would you spend today? – eab, 2/10/05 (revised 3/3)
Lettie Cowman – birth, Mar. 3, 1870
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March, 3
The End Of Our Strength
“Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed” (John 20:29).
How strong is the snare of the things that are seen, and how necessary for God to keep us in the things that axe unseen! If Peter is to walk on the water he must walk; if he is going to swim, he must swim, but he cannot do both. If the bird is going to fly it must keep away from fences and the trees, and trust to its buoyant wings. But if it tries to keep within easy reach of the ground, it will make poor work of flying.
God had to bring Abraham to the end of his own strength, and to let him see that in his own body he could do nothing. He had to consider his own body as good as dead, and then take God for the whole work; and when he looked away from himself, and trusted God alone, then he became fully persuaded that what He had promised, He was able to perform. That is what God is teaching us, and He has to keep away encouraging results until we learn to trust without them, and then He loves to make His Word real in fact as well as faith.–A. B. Simpson
I do not ask that He must prove
His Word is true to me,
And that before I can believe
He first must let me see.
It is enough for me to know
‘Tis true because He says ’tis so;
On His unchanging Word I’ll stand
And trust till I can understand.
–E. M. Winter
Lettie Burd Cowman was born this date (3/3/1870) in the state of Iowa. She and her husband, Charles, founded OMS (Oriental Missionary Society) in 1907. She first published Streams in the Desert in 1925. It has been translated into at least fifteen (15) languages.
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