DAILY READINGS: 2 Chronicles 34; Daniel 2:1-23; 1 John 4
For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not. Isaiah 30:15
When life is brimming with success and even more opportunities beckon, it takes a strong will to slow down and reflect on God’s awesomeness—to consider who made the billions of stars and calls them all by name or to simply walk and observe God’s creativity in nature. Vance Havner wrote, “Blessed is the man who does not let what he gets, get him.” When our Lord’s popularity was highest and the crowds largest, He would leave the multitude and resort to the mountain’s solitude and pray. May we learn from Him. —E. Dyck
Come Thou fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise. —Robinson