DAY 229 Read Ezekiel 15 and 16.
Today's reading: God uses an allegory to illustrate the folly of His people's apostasy. He adopts an infant, gives her security and riches, and brings her fame; then she turns her back on Him. Still God loves her!
Memory gem: "I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord" (Ezekiel 16:62).
Thought for today:
An interesting story came out some years ago about an old man who was found half dead in one of the streets of New York City. The authorities picked him up and took him to Bellevue Hospital. During the twenty-six days he was there he wouldn't tell them who he was or anything about his friends or life. He just said he had lost all his money or it had been stolen from him, and that he wanted to go back to Serbia to die.
He died there in the hospital. As they were getting him ready to be buried in a potter's field, someone suggested that they ought to look in his dirty clothes. They did so and found his pockets full of money, stocks, and bonds. Then, when his clothes were ripped apart, they were found to be filled with money and other valuables.
Why had he lived and died as a pauper? No one knows. He suffered privation and sickness and practically starved himself.
But how many people in this world are like that in spiritual things! They don't live up to their opportunities. They live a pauperized life. To them life doesn't amount to much--just a succession of days. Life is to know and to feel and to do. It is to have the deep love of God in the heart. Life, my friend, is what we make it with God.
Today's reading: God uses an allegory to illustrate the folly of His people's apostasy. He adopts an infant, gives her security and riches, and brings her fame; then she turns her back on Him. Still God loves her!
Memory gem: "I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord" (Ezekiel 16:62).
Thought for today:
An interesting story came out some years ago about an old man who was found half dead in one of the streets of New York City. The authorities picked him up and took him to Bellevue Hospital. During the twenty-six days he was there he wouldn't tell them who he was or anything about his friends or life. He just said he had lost all his money or it had been stolen from him, and that he wanted to go back to Serbia to die.
He died there in the hospital. As they were getting him ready to be buried in a potter's field, someone suggested that they ought to look in his dirty clothes. They did so and found his pockets full of money, stocks, and bonds. Then, when his clothes were ripped apart, they were found to be filled with money and other valuables.
Why had he lived and died as a pauper? No one knows. He suffered privation and sickness and practically starved himself.
But how many people in this world are like that in spiritual things! They don't live up to their opportunities. They live a pauperized life. To them life doesn't amount to much--just a succession of days. Life is to know and to feel and to do. It is to have the deep love of God in the heart. Life, my friend, is what we make it with God.
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