THINK ON THESE THINGS

But you will surely find at the journey’s end

Whatever the world may afford,

That things fade away, and success is seen

In the life that has served the Lord.

Life is uncertain, death is sure;

Sin the cause, Christ the cure.

Oh, we would write our record plain

And come in time to see

Our unsaved neighbors won to Christ

While reading you and me.

Before you sleep, just gently lay

Every troubled thought away;

Drop your burden and your care

In the quiet arms of prayer.

- Anon -

“Let not mercy and truth forsake thee:

bind them about thy neck;

 write them upon the table of thine heart;

 so shalt thou find favor and good understanding

 in the sight of God and man.

 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart:

 and lean not unto thine own understanding.

 In all thy ways acknowledge him,

and he shall direct thy paths.”

Proverbs 3:3-6

GOD IS PRESENT EVERYWHERE

They who seek the throne of grace

Find that throne is every place.

If we live a life of prayer,

God is present everywhere.

In our sickness and our health,

In our want or in our wealth,

If we look to God in prayer,

God is present everywhere.

--Oliver Holden.

GREAT DAYS AHEAD

Another year is ending

And serious times are pending,

But we are looking up to heaven.

All things are quickly changing.

Man’s plans are disarranging,

But calming grace to us is given.

Our Christ is soon returning.

The world will then be burning.

O what a sad and dismal story.

The Lord will then be reigning,

And saints He now is training

Will then be with Him in glory.

Selected.

ONE WITH CHRIST

By C. E. Foster

I once belonged to Adam’s race, was born beneath the curse.

Was hopeless, lost and in disgrace, it could not have been worse

But Christ became a curse for me; and died upon the cross,

Obtained eternal victory o’er Satan, sin and dross.

The old man came unto His doom by death upon the tree;

With Christ was buried in the tomb, he has no pow’r o’er me.

I am a new creation now, in Christ my living head;

Before His feet I gladly bow, as risen from the dead.

PRAYER

I asked for bread; God gave a stone instead.

Yet, while I pillowed there my weary head,

The angels made a ladder of my dreams,

Which upward to celestial mountains led.

And when I woke beneath the morning’s beams,

around my resting place fresh manna lay;

And, praising God, I went upon my way, ‘for I was led.’

God answers prayer; sometimes, when hearts are weak,

He gives the very gifts believers seek.

But often faith must learn a deeper rest,

And trust God’s silence when He does not speak;

For He whose name is Love will send the best.

Stars may burn out, nor mountain walls endure,

But God is true, His promises are sure ‘for those who seek.’

Author Unknown

“The chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day

of His preparation”—Nahum 2:3.

This Scripture - no doubt,  refers to the time of the Lord’s return and the preparation on the earth which precedes the great event.  The fulfillment of it, which is before our eyes, is a sure sign that the Day of the Lord is at hand.  But there is a particular preparation, at the same time, to which we call attention with no uncertain sound; namely, the preparation of the Bride to meet the Bridegroom.  The former is called ‘His preparation’.  But her preparation is just as necessary; for His manifestation awaits her presence with Him.  We are assured that there is nothing with which the Lord is more concerned.