DAILY READINGS: Esther 2; Zechariah 12 to 13:6; Revelation 19:1-10
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Matthew 24:42
The weakness of the church today is attributable to many things,
not the least of which is worldliness. Horatious Bonar (1808-89) said
many years ago, “I looked for the church, and I found it in the world;
I looked for the world, and I found it in the church.” Imagine what
his reaction would be if he were here today! Occupation with worldly
things so consumed Noah’s generation that the flood came upon
them in swift judgment. In our time it is possible that a similar occupation
with worldliness and materialism may so grip us that we fail
utterly in our Christian service. Let it not be so! —W. Ross Rainey
Take the world, but give me Jesus, all its joys are but a name;
But His love abideth ever, thro’ eternal years the same. —Fanny Crosby