Words of Encouragement Scripture: Psalm 114:3-8 3. The sea looked and fled;the Jordan turned back. 4. The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. 5What ails you, O sea, that you flee? o Jordan, that you turn back? 6. O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills like rams? 7. Tremble, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob, 8. Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a mountain of water. My focus is on verse 8. From Our Daily Homily by F.B. Meyer This is a miracle which we all need to have wrought in our experience. Our heart is flint, our eyes are dry, our souls fail to respond with tears and regrets to the love of the Pierced One, and to the indictment that charges us with His death. There is little brokenness of heart among Gods children; and it is a sad fact that conviction of sin is a comparatively rare experience among the ungodly. This used not to be so. We have read of whole communities swept with paroxysms of grief and compunction under the preaching of a Finney. His look on one occasion at a scoffing girl smote her to the soul, and led to so deep a work of grace that a whole factory, and then a village, were filled with mourning. I was told of a revival breaking out in a church, and many hearts being made soft because a band of godly elders confessed their unfaithfulness and shortcomings. Moses struck the rock of flint at the commencement of the wanderings; and was to speak to it, at their close. But in either case the effect was identical; the water gushed from its heart of rock. Use your cross, O Son of God, Lord of the House in which Moses was but a servant, and smite these hard hearts, that tears may flow freely forth; or speak the word. It is said that every building has a chord, to strike which makes it tremble to its base. Surely there is a chord, a note, a tone, before which our hearts would rend, giving Him tears for his sorrow, anguish for his pain! The sacrifices of God are a broken heart; a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise. A broken heart, a fount of tears, Ask, and it shall not be denied. So, be encouraged, my friend! P.S. Here is a hymn that will minister to your heart: One Day https://youtube/watch?v=hrXkVZDl89w
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:32:22 +0000
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