PEACE WITH GOD

 
January 3.
 
The Lord of peace himself give you peace 

   always by all means.
                            II Thessalonians 3:16
 

By thy passion on the tree,

Let my grief and trouble cease;

O remember Calvary,

And give me holy peace.

 
Peace with God is an invaluable blessing;
  it flows from the atonement,
  and is the antidote for human misery.
 
James Smith

SEARCH O LORD

 

January 2.

Search me, O God, and know my heart:
  try me, and know my thoughts.  Psalms 139 23
 

Search, O Lord, and cleanse, and save us;

Heal us by thy power divine;

Burst the bonds that here enslaves us,

That we may be wholly thine.

 
An honest heart will expose itself to God's all searching eye,
 and desire to be examined as well as cleansed and comforted.
 
James Smith

 

JANUARY 1.
 
LORD, let it alone this year also. Luke 13:8
 

Lord, melt our hearts to mourn the past,

   And let us henceforth faithful be ;

And if this year should be our last,

  O may our souls repose with thee.

 
The intercession of Jesus brings down innumerable blessings upon us; and it is employed for us tonight; let us, therefore, look up to an interceding Savour, and expect blessings from his hands.