DAY 210 Read Jeremiah 14 through 16.
Today's reading: Although good King Josiah made heroic efforts to root out idolatry, he could not change people's hearts. The Lord still sent His pleading call to repentance through Jeremiah.
Memory gem: "Thy words were found and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart" (Jeremiah 15:16).
Thought for today:
A young lady was taking a special course in a university and was having a terrible time. One book in particular was especially boring.
After a while this young woman met a young man on the university campus. Somehow he was very attractive, and he felt drawn to her too. It was not long before they were keeping company. He happened to be one of the young teachers there.
One day, after they had been going together for several months, she happened to tell him that she was having a difficult time with her English course and particularly with that book. She said, "That is the driest thing I have ever tried to read. I just can't get interested in it. The print is too fine, the subject is so dull--and the strange thing is," she continued, "the author's name is the same as yours."
"Oh," he replied, "there is nothing strange about it; you see, I wrote the book."
And then she didn't say anything more--in fact, there was nothing more to say.
But when she went home that night, she got that book out, and her mother couldn't get her to bed. "You know, Mother," she said, "it is all in me. I just didn't see through this book before. Why, it's a wonderful book! Somehow I see the whole thing now. This really is the book, Mother." And she just stopped everything else and read and devoured and digested that book.
Friends, if you find the Bible dry and difficult, get acquainted with the Author, and you will see His loving face shining out from Genesis to Revelation. From the first verse of the first book to the last verse of the last book, you will find that wonderful One, our Lord Jesus Christ.
Today's reading: Although good King Josiah made heroic efforts to root out idolatry, he could not change people's hearts. The Lord still sent His pleading call to repentance through Jeremiah.
Memory gem: "Thy words were found and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart" (Jeremiah 15:16).
Thought for today:
A young lady was taking a special course in a university and was having a terrible time. One book in particular was especially boring.
After a while this young woman met a young man on the university campus. Somehow he was very attractive, and he felt drawn to her too. It was not long before they were keeping company. He happened to be one of the young teachers there.
One day, after they had been going together for several months, she happened to tell him that she was having a difficult time with her English course and particularly with that book. She said, "That is the driest thing I have ever tried to read. I just can't get interested in it. The print is too fine, the subject is so dull--and the strange thing is," she continued, "the author's name is the same as yours."
"Oh," he replied, "there is nothing strange about it; you see, I wrote the book."
And then she didn't say anything more--in fact, there was nothing more to say.
But when she went home that night, she got that book out, and her mother couldn't get her to bed. "You know, Mother," she said, "it is all in me. I just didn't see through this book before. Why, it's a wonderful book! Somehow I see the whole thing now. This really is the book, Mother." And she just stopped everything else and read and devoured and digested that book.
Friends, if you find the Bible dry and difficult, get acquainted with the Author, and you will see His loving face shining out from Genesis to Revelation. From the first verse of the first book to the last verse of the last book, you will find that wonderful One, our Lord Jesus Christ.
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