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Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 14th “Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me” (Mark 8:34). The cross which my Lord bids me take up and carry may assume different shapes. I may have to content myself with a lowly and narrow sphere, when…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 13th Come up in the morning . . . and present thyself unto me in the top of the mount (Exod. 34:2). The morning is the time fixed for my meeting the Lord. The very word morning is as a cluster of rich grapes. Let us crush them,…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 11th “And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise” (Heb. 6:15). Abraham was long tried, but he was richly rewarded. The Lord tried him by delaying to fulfill His promise. Satan tried him by temptation; men tried him by jealousy, distrust, and opposition; Sarah tried…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 10th The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me (Ps. 138:8). There is a Divine mystery in suffering, a strange and supernatural power in it, which has never been fathomed by the human reason. There never has been known great saintliness of soul which did not pass through…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 9th “Not much earth” (Matthew. 13:5). Shallow! It would seem from the teaching of this parable that we have something to do with the soil. The fruitful seed fell into “good and honest hearts.” I suppose the shallow people are the soil without much earth–those who have no…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 8th “Thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress” (Ps. 4:1). This is one of the grandest testimonies ever given by man to the moral government of God. It is not a man’s thanksgiving that he has been set free from suffering. It is a thanksgiving that…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 7th “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble” (Ps. 46:1). The question often comes, “Why didn’t He help me sooner?” It is not His order. He must first adjust you to the trouble and cause you to learn your lesson from it. His…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 6th Thou remainest (Heb. 1:11). There are always lone hearth-fires; so many! And those who sit beside them, with the empty chair, cannot restrain the tears that will come. One sits alone so much. There is some One unseen, just here within reach. But somehow we don’t realize…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 5th Blessed are all they that wait for him (Isa. 30:18). We hear a great deal about waiting on God. There is, however, another side. When we wait on God, He is waiting till we are ready; when we wait for God, we are waiting till He is…