Tag: Streams in the Desert

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman October 6th He opened not his mouth (Isaiah 53:7). How much grace it requires to bear a misunderstanding rightly, and to receive an unkind judgment in holy sweetness! Nothing tests the Christian character more than to have some evil thing said about him. This is the file that…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman October 5th The education of our faith is incomplete if we have not learned that there is a providence of loss, a ministry of failing and of fading things, a gift of emptiness. The material insecurities of life make for its spiritual establishment. The dwindling stream by which…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman October 4th So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning (Job 42:12)J Through his griefs Job came to his heritage. He was tried that his godliness might be confirmed. Are not my troubles intended to deepen my character and to robe me in graces…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman October 3rd And after the earthquake a fire; and after the fire a sound of gentle stillness” (1 Kings 19:12, RV margin.) A soul, who made rapid progress in her understanding of the Lord, was once asked the secret of her easy advancement. She replied tersely, “Mind the checks.”…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman October 2nd And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place (Luke 9:10). In order to grow in grace, we must be much alone. It is not in society that the soul grows most vigorously. In one single quiet hour of prayer it will often make more progress…

Streams in the Desert By Mrs Cowman October 1st It is good for me that I have been afflicted (Ps. 119:71). It is a remarkable circumstance that the most brilliant colors of plants are to be seen on the highest mountains, in spots that are most exposed to the wildest weather. The brightest lichens and mosses,…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 30th As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange God with him” (Deut. 32:11-12). Our Almighty Parent delights to conduct the tender…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 29th I will give myself unto prayer (Ps. 109:4). We are often in a religious hurry in our devotions. How much time do we spend in them daily? Can it not be easily reckoned in minutes? Who ever knew an eminently holy man who did not spend much of his…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 28th In me… peace (John 16:33). There is a vast difference between happiness and blessedness. Paul had imprisonments and pains, sacrifice and suffering up to the very limit; but in the midst of it all, he was blessed. All the beatitudes came into his heart and life in…

Streams in the Desert by Mrs Cowman September 27th I have found an atonement (Job 33:24, margin). Divine healing is just divine life. It is the headship of Christ over the body. It is the life of Christ in the frame. It is the union of our members with the very body of Christ and the inflowing…