Tag: devotional

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…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman August 21st He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me; because he delighted in me (Psalms 18:19). And what is this “large place”? What can it be but God Himself, that infinite Being in whom all other beings and all other streams of life terminate?…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman August 20th And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day (Genesis 32:24). God is wrestling with Jacob more than Jacob is wrestling with God. It was the Son of man, the Angel of the Covenant. It was God in…

Streams in the Desert By Mrs Cowman August 19th As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing (2 Corinthians 6:10). Sorrow was beautiful, but her beauty was the beauty of the moonlight shining through the leafy branches of the trees in the wood, and making little pools of silver here and there on the soft green moss below. When Sorrow…