DAILY?READINGS: 1 Chronicles 6; Ezekiel 8-9; John 2:1-22
Ebenezer… Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. 1 Samuel 7:12
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh, (The Lord will provide). Genesis 22:14
Hudson Taylor, the founder of the China Inland Mission (currently the Overseas Missionary Fellowship), used to hang in his home a plaque with two Hebrew words on it: “Ebenezer” and “Jehovah-jireh.” They mean, “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us” and “The Lord will provide.” Whether he looked back or ahead, Hudson Taylor knew the Lord was at work, and he had nothing to fear. God’s Word does not change. Let us appropriate these truths for ourselves today. —W. Ross Rainey
Tis Jesus the First and the Last, whose Spirit shall guide us safe home:
We’ll praise Him for all that is past, and trust Him for all that’s to come.—Joseph Hart