51 thoughts on “Dragonfly”

  27. Hebrews 11:6

    6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

    Tender Comfort

    As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you. – Isa 66:13

    A mother’s comfort! Ah, this is tenderness itself. How she enters into her child’s grief! How she presses him to her bosom and tries to take all his sorrow into her own heart! He can tell her all, and she will sympathize as nobody else can. Of all comforters the child loves best his mother, and even full-grown men have found it so.

    Does Jehovah condescend to act the mother’s part? This is goodness indeed. We readily perceive how He is a father; but will He be as a mother also? Does not this invite us to holy familiarity, to unreserved confidence, to sacred rest? When God Himself becomes “the Comforter,” no anguish can long abide. Let us tell out our trouble, even though sobs and sighs should become our readiest utterance. He will not despise us for our tears; our mother did not. He will consider our weakness as she did, and He will put away our faults, only in a surer, safer way than our mother could do. We will not try to bear our grief alone; that would be unkind to one so gentle and so kind. Let us begin the day with our loving God, and wherefore should we not finish it in the same company, since mothers weary not of their children?

    The Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer…: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built. – 1 Kgs 9:3

    No privilege that could be granted to any one in this world is so great as that of having God accept and use something of ours.

    One writes a hymn, like the twenty–third psalm, or “Rock of Ages, cleft for me,” and God accepts it. Thousands sing it, and are lifted by it nearer to God. Or one writes a book, and Christ accepts it and allows it to carry blessing to many people, giving comfort in sorrow, strength in weakness, light in darkness,
    guidance in perplexity.

    Instead of making one proud to be thus used, it should make one more humble. Especially should he walk softly and carefully now, since God is using him; for God’s seal is on him.

    That is what God meant when He said to Solomon that He had heard his prayer and had accepted the Temple which he had built, putting His name there. He meant that the acceptance of this work placed the king under new obligations to be faithful, made his life sacred thenceforward forever.

    As the hart panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God. – Ps 42:1

    Rivers to the ocean run,
    Nor stay in all their course;
    Fire ascending seeks the sun;
    Both speed them to their source;
    So a soul that’s born of God,
    Pants to view his glorious face,
    Upward tends to his abode,
    To rest in his embrace.

    As the bird trims her to the gale
    I trim myself to the storm of time;
    I man the rudder, reef the sail,
    Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime;
    Lowly faithful, banish fear,
    The port well worth the cruise is near
    And every wave is charmed.

    Prayer
    My Father, I pray that if I meet with difficulty, I may not go backward, nor stand still, and fear to go forward. Unfold to me the depth and breadth of the ideal and beautiful, that I may not be content to succeed in the shallowness of life: but may I aspire to the height of the soul, even if I fail to acquire great things. Amen.

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