DAY 214 Read Jeremiah 8 through 11.
Today's reading: We continue to read the persistent appeals through Jeremiah for a return to true heart religion. Outward forms alone are not enough.
Memory gem: "They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace" (Jeremiah 8:11).
Thought for today:
In 1823 Victor Hugo wrote in The Future of Man: "In the twentieth century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead. Man will live; he will possess something higher than all these--a great country, the whole earth, a great hope, the whole heaven."
Well, the years rolled on, and it was not long before other prophet were predicting still greater and more glorious victories for mankind--world peace, world prosperity, everything but eternal life. They depicted the next stage of history as a paradise where, as one writer put it, "rivers of milk will flow between banks of ice cream, through plains of unlimited abundance."
But what a change has come now--two world wars and all the rest that has followed! The song is different. Yes, we looked for peace, but behold trouble
What does all this mean to you and to me? Friends, it means that we are seeing the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Holy Bible. We are seeing the words of Christ and the prophets coming true in our day. We are living at five minutes to twelve, four minutes to twelve, three minutes to twelve! The clock is about to strike. We are about to see the most tremendous events in all the history of time. We are about to see the curtain rung down on time and rung up on eternity. Surely we can say, "Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed." Yes, much nearer. "The night is far spent, the day is at hand" (Romans 13:11, 12). Shall we not, therefore, do as the apostle urges? "Let us...cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light" (verse 12).
Let us turn our face toward heaven and be of good courage, for our redemption--yes, our Redeemer--draweth nigh.
Today's reading: We continue to read the persistent appeals through Jeremiah for a return to true heart religion. Outward forms alone are not enough.
Memory gem: "They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace" (Jeremiah 8:11).
Thought for today:
In 1823 Victor Hugo wrote in The Future of Man: "In the twentieth century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead. Man will live; he will possess something higher than all these--a great country, the whole earth, a great hope, the whole heaven."
Well, the years rolled on, and it was not long before other prophet were predicting still greater and more glorious victories for mankind--world peace, world prosperity, everything but eternal life. They depicted the next stage of history as a paradise where, as one writer put it, "rivers of milk will flow between banks of ice cream, through plains of unlimited abundance."
But what a change has come now--two world wars and all the rest that has followed! The song is different. Yes, we looked for peace, but behold trouble
What does all this mean to you and to me? Friends, it means that we are seeing the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Holy Bible. We are seeing the words of Christ and the prophets coming true in our day. We are living at five minutes to twelve, four minutes to twelve, three minutes to twelve! The clock is about to strike. We are about to see the most tremendous events in all the history of time. We are about to see the curtain rung down on time and rung up on eternity. Surely we can say, "Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed." Yes, much nearer. "The night is far spent, the day is at hand" (Romans 13:11, 12). Shall we not, therefore, do as the apostle urges? "Let us...cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light" (verse 12).
Let us turn our face toward heaven and be of good courage, for our redemption--yes, our Redeemer--draweth nigh.
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