![]() ![]() Lydia Bennett 8-3 Randy Blair, Jr. 8-4 David Lund 8-19 Tabitha Bateman 8-24 Andrew Whittier 8-30 Jonathan Freeman 8-31 ![]() August ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By A Thread =========== Life hangs by a thread. A simple snap and we're dead. All of our money, fortune and fame, That same little thread holds it again. We think we are secure in the strength of our might, When we have not the power to even last the night. Our fate and our destiny is guided for sure By the One who gave the rules, we make the detour. If only we realize it is not by our wits, That we survive, even prosper, it is because He permits. It's only a thread that holds us up But a thread is like steel, when we've drank from the cup. The cup of life made available to all Hanging by a thread, yet secured from a fall. | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Christ Sometimes Delays His Help by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman "I called upon him, but he gave me no answer" (S. of Sol. 5:6). The Lord, when He hath given great faith, hath been known to try it by long delayings. He has suffered His servants' voices to echo in their ears as from a brazen sky. They have knocked at the golden gate, but it has remained unmovable, as though it were rusted upon its hinges. Like Jeremiah, they have cried, "Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through." Thus have true saints continued long in patient waiting without reply, not because their prayers were not vehement, nor because they were unaccepted, but because it so pleased Him who is a Sovereign, and who gives according to His own pleasure. If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He will with His own! No prayer is lost. Praying breath was never spent in vain. There is no such thing as prayer unanswered or unnoticed by God, and some things that we count refusals or denials are simply delays. --H. Bonar Christ sometimes delays His help that He may try our faith and quicken our prayers. The boat may be covered with the waves, and He sleeps on; but He will wake up before it sinks. He sleeps, but He never oversleeps; and there are no "too lates" with Him. --Alexander Maclaren Be still, sad soul! lift thou no passionate cry, |