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Streams in the Desert By Mrs Cowman August 31 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…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman August 30th They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep (Ps. 107:23-24). He is but an apprentice and no master in the art, who has not learned that every…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman August 29th And he went out carrying his own cross (John 19:17). There is a poem called “The Changed Cross.” It represents a weary one who thought that her cross was surely heavier than those of others whom she saw about her, and she wished that she might choose…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman August 28 Living with Suffering There he proved them (Exod. 15:25). I stood once in the test room of a great steel mill. All around me were little partitions and compartments. Steel had been tested to the limit, and marked with figures that showed its breaking point. Some pieces…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman August 27th And he took him aside from the multitude (Mark 7:33). Paul not only stood the tests in Christian activity, but in the solitude of captivity. You may stand the strain of the most intense labor, coupled with severe suffering, and yet break down utterly when laid aside…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman August 26th The deep says, ‘It is not with me.’ And the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’ (Job 28:14)   I remember a summer in which I said, “It is the ocean I need,” and I went to the ocean; but it seemed to say, “It is…

Streams in the Desert By Mrs Cowman August 25th Shut up to faith (Gal. 3:23). God, in olden time suffered man to be kept in ward by the law that he might learn the more excellent way of faith. For by the law he would see God’s holy standard and by the law he would see his…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman August 24th I have all, and abound (Phil. 4:18). In one of my garden books there is a chapter with a very interesting heading, “Flowers that Grow in the Gloom.” It deals with those patches in a garden which never catch the sunlight. And my guide tells me the…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman August 23rd He went out, not knowing whither he went (Hebrews 11:8). It is faith without sight. When we can see, it is not faith, but reasoning. In crossing the Atlantic we observed this very principle of faith. We saw no path upon the sea, nor sign of the shore. And…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman August 22. And the rest, some on boards, some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass that they escaped all safe to land (Acts 27:44). The marvelous story of Paul’s voyage to Rome, with its trials and triumphs, is a fine pattern of the…