LOVE even in us, in and by the Spirit, how sweet it is! But the fountain, the deep sweet well of love, is Christ. So the woman of Sychar proved, and so may we.
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IN the quiet moments of the night I have pictured her sorrows and have thought how weak the vessel to weather such a storm. Her sorrow draws out much intercession; and this is comfort, for the Lord hears it and will answer in His own time.
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WE are not to want a kid to make merry with our friends apart from Him, nor any other refuge from the storm than Himself, Who is a present help in the time of trouble. When by grace we returned from the far country, it was to the Father, to be His children and in His arms, although our first thoughts might have been set on the “bread enough and to spare,” which even the servants enjoyed.
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How strange, yet true, that we should ever be cast down; yet is it not so? Stronger saints than we confess to this state; Daniel did, and so even Paul. But they learned an unfailing spring of comfort is God, Who comforteth those who are cast down. And it is a lesson well worth exercise to really learn, “What time I am afraid I will confide in thee,” and another verse, “My heart trusted in thee and I am helped, therefore my heart rejoiceth in thee.”
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