“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer” (Ps 19:14). We wouldn’t have to be so concerned about our words today if we were more careful about our thoughts, since “out of the abundance of the heart” the mouth […]
Day by day the manna fell; Oh, to learn this lesson well! Still by constant mercy fed, Give me, Lord, my daily bread. Day by day the promise reads, Daily strength for daily needs, Cast foreboding fears away: Take the manna of today. Lord, my times are in Thy hand; All my brightest hopes have […]
Sound the loud timbrel o’er Egypt’s dark sea! Jehovah has triumphed—His people are free. Sing—for the pride of the tyrant is broken, His chariots, his horsemen, all splendid and brave, How vain was their boast; for the Lord has but spoken, And chariots and horsemen are sunk in the wave. Sound the loud timbrel o’er […]
Light after darkness, Gain after loss, Strength after weakness Crown after cross, Sweet after bitter, Song after fears, Home after wandering, Praise after tears. Sheaves after sowing, Sun after rain, Light after mystery, Peace after pain, Joy after sorrow, Calm after blast, Rest after weariness, Sweet rest at last. Never after distant, Gleam after gloom, […]
Some time some ordinary day will come, A busy day, like this, filled to the brim With ordinary tasks—perhaps so full That we have little care or thought for Him. And there will be no hint from silent skies, No sign, no clash of cymbals, roll of drums— And yet that ordinary day will be […]
Nebuchadnezzar, sleeping, saw a vision That vanished with the night, Troubled, he sought the seers and magicians To call it back to light. But none could tell it till Jehovah’s prophet Read him the dream aright: The symbols of the empires of the ages, Their splendor and their might. So have they come—the kingdoms of […]
Show us our need, O Lord; how lost, how helpless, How poor, how sunk in sin our carnal hearts; Show us how vain to change our sad condition, Our best endeavor and our utmost arts; Show us how weak we are, and how dependent, How multiplied defeats our pride abase; And then—O Lord, lest we […]
Come, O Thou Traveler unknown, Whom still I hold, but cannot see; My company before is gone, And I am left alone with Thee: With Thee all night I mean to stay, And wrestle till the break of day. I need not tell Thee who I am; My sin and misery declare; Thyself hast called […]
“The boneless tongue, so small and weak, Can crush and kill,” declared the Greek. “The tongue destroys a greater horde,” The Turk asserts, “than does the sword.” The Persian proverb wisely saith, “A lengthy tongue—an early death.” Or sometimes takes this form instead: “Don’t let your tongue cut off your head!” “The tongue can speak […]