From Day to Day; Or, Helpful Words for Christian Life: Daily Readings for a Year

Robert MacDonald

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It is grace that does all not nature	9

The sinner must die or the sinners Friend	11

Saints may doubt about many things but not that God answers prayer	13

A real Christ or none	15

Even weak faith is precious faith	16

We must neither misplace repentance nor exclude it	18

True loyalty to Christ has no reserves	20

The chain of redeeming love has no weak link	22

He who has a goodly heritage may well have a gladsome heart	325

We are by nature not only deep but dead in sin	327

Even little attentions may be helpful expressions of grace	328

A real Word of God without mysteries would be the greatest mystery of all	330

Patience though painful in exercise is precious in result	332

A peculiar title sometimes yields peculiar encouragement	333

Men may be thoroughly bond yet think themselves free	335

Poverty is nothing if there be purity	337

Conversions may be sudden yet sure	24

A true suppliant	25

Concern for the Lords honour	29

First love is so precious that we must beware of losing it	30

Nothing so sweetens suffering as fellowship with Christ in it	32

Comfort in the wilderness	34

The holier our life the happier	35

Trustful stillness	37

When to be prompt	38

Stumbling overruled for stablishing	40

Even finders may still be seekers	42

The sacred fire that must not be quenched	45

Sickness and sin	47

He is beyond measure rich who can say My God	49

The true secret of strength	50

Hopeful thirst	52

Though we know little our loving Lord knows all	53

To be unforgiving is to be unforgiven	55

The perfect love	57

No king rewards the loyal like Christ	59

Shall we know each other in heaven?	60

The Bible of our Lord	63

The Healer and the healed	66

They are blessed who can say We have heard him ourselves	68

None but the twiceborn enter the kingdom	70

The folly of the foolish	72

The folly of the wise	74

When God is feared no other fear need be	75

Salvation by grace is not inconsistent with variety of reward	77

Compelling in love	79

Excluding in righteousness	81

When warm to the Master our love will not be cold to the servant	82

With many the blossom seems to come but never the fruit	84

In spite of its dark look temptation often serves a bright end	86

Our faith may fail but never Gods word	88

Through intensity of unbelief great judgments are usually great surprises	89

Our everliving Head	91

Our bitter things	93

Golden opportunities should instantly be turned to golden account	94

Prayer has fulness of power only when it has believing persistency	96

Things above should ever have the first place with us	97

The needed Shelter	99

We are never so Christlike as when with loving sympathy we remem ber the poor	101

False joy and true	103

Needed Bewares	104

The revealed method of redemption	106

Where there is true faith there will be evangelistic energy	107

Though eternity is near how many think only of time	109

The more the heart is filled with grace the more it glows with gratitude	110

The Lords second advent in its practical bearings	111

Death may be earned not life	112

The more lowly the saint the more lovely	114

A humbling experience often becomes a helpful mercy	116

If saints loved more they would doubt less	117

The life of the Church is a mystery to the world	119

God unknown yet well known	121

When requests are rash denials are kind	123

The Lord sees countless ways of relief when we can see none	125

Defeat yet victory	127

Those who best know the souls worth most fear the tempters wiles	129

The usual mode of the Spirits operation	131

Darkness preferred to light	133

Contented lukewarmness	135

We must both take hold and hold fast	136

If the might of the Lord is marvellous still more is his mercy	138

Aimless working is useless working	139

Not one in tribe yet one in Christ	141

Repetitions may be needful	142

Entrance and continuance	144

Only thoroughly Bible Christians can be thoroughly stable ones	146

The injured should not injure in turn	148

Christs double Sonship	150

The Lord both knows his people and delights in them	152

The true place of appointed ordinances	154

Trial is often a blessed need be	155

Overloving the perishable	157

Saints are sometimes found where least expected	159

Love in part and love in full 100	160

Losing all for Christ	162

Our advocate with the Father	164

Saints cannot lose their treasure	166

The first work to be done	168

There is a sleep that is easy but never safe	169

Go where we may we are never out of our Fathers territory	171

We may do lofty service even in a lowly sphere	173

The Lordsday is ever a loved day with his people	174

Even in the darkest valley God can give light	176

To deal hopefully with the fallen we must deal tenderly	177

Many often miss the great by overlooking the little	179

There is no safer seat than at the feet of Jesus	181

Our need and Gods supply	183

Many a thing has failed in the testing but never a promise of God	185

The nominal and the real	186

Safe prosperity	188

There is no way of peace but Gods way	190

When we keep near the Lord we never fail to get his ear	192

Bringing in and bringing out	194

There is nothing simpler than faith yet in actual life what is harder ?	195

Though in the world we must not be of it	197

The Lords guidance is special as well as loving	200

We must know Christs greatness to realize his grace	201

We are never so really rich as when rich in liberality	203

True following of the Lord	205

We often misjudge the Lord and his ways	206

Troublous times foreseen and foretold	208

We can never aim at too high a holiness	209

Typical sinbearing and real	211

In soulwinning be slow to despair	213

Enlightened gratitude	214

The loving interest of large hearts	216

Canaan though a goodly land was but an imperfect type	218

The feeble should be felt for and lovingly helped	222

An assured hope is both attainable and blessed	224

Successful working may be most prized by man but faithful work ing is the main thing with God	226

Speech must be watched as well as action	228

If safe it is because while Satan sifts the Saviour prays	230

The helps given in childhood may not always be given in riper years	232

Whom God defends none can injure	234

It is not new means we need but new power with the old means	235

Sore questionings for gracious ends	238

Till we let go every false confidence we can never realize the true	240

The much commendable yet the much lacking in the church of Ephesus	241

Our corrupt nature	243

Grace to the Gentiles	245

The double gift	247

Conversion first but never alone	249

The sonship of adoption	250

Usually as opportunities are improved they multiply	253

They are free indeed whom the truth sets free	255

Whom we love we long to see	256

They who pray most themselves most prize the prayers of others	258

What we mainly need	260

Remembered graces	262

It is no easy thing to be stable	264

The preciousness of Gods favour	265

The once dead but now risen	267

Seeming deafness to entreaty	268

We have not only a Saviour in Christ but a King	270

Those who come to Christ must walk with him	272

We should prize true unity and pray for it	274

We cannot be loyal to the Lord if disloyal to his word	276

Whatever may be lacking it is not free invitation	279

Even the strong are weak	281

Gods promises though often forgotten on earth are never forgotten in heaven	283

Every saint is the Saviours and a prized possession	285

When God is about to work greatly by us he first works greatly in us	286

The right and the wrong of anger and how to deal with it	288

The Lords leadings however strange have always wise love in them	290

We should be praiseful as well as prayerful	291

We should never be staggered by apostasy from the faith however much we may be saddened by it	293

Though all believers are risen men not one is selfrisen	295

Though slighted by many Christ is everything to those who know him	297

Much may intervene between the sowing and the reaping	298

Selfcomplacent contentedness	300

Christian consistency	301

Fruitless effort	303

When need is sorest comfort is sweetest	304

All goes well with us when the Lord is with us	307

Flattering to deceive	308

We dishonour the Giver when we despise the gifts	310

Apostolic conflict	311

Healing and helping	312

Tried yet joyous receivers of the word	314

The one offering of the one Priest	315

We may render great service by silent messengers	317

The nearer we keep to the Lord ourselves the abler we are to guide others to him	319

Correction and suggestion happily blended	320

It is well to remember what we once were	322

In spite of bonds prison experiences have often been bright	323

The Come and the Depart of the great day	338

The joy of grace is as serviceable as it is sweet	342

The fearless becoming fearful	343

Every redemptionblessing has the charm of completeness	345

Without watchfulness the warm easily become the lukewarm	347

Nothing is so commendatory of the Master as consistent discipleship	348

Penitence and peace	350

Forewarnings of the Word	352

Can we magnify the Lord?	354

The great hinderer	355

The arrow that none can escape	357

What the Lord begins he completes	359

Grace seen in Martha	361

The wrong quarter and the wrong time	362

It is only the wisdom of grace that is wisdom indeed	364

Marys love to her Lord	365

Labourers are needed and how to get them	367

The gospel in power	369

The coming day of days	370

The Lords touching bewailments	372

Calls for help	374

The timing of events	376

The remedial efficacy of the gospel	378

Much to try yet more to cheer	379

Stooping to save	381

The fulness that never lessens	383

The prayers of dying saints have often undying power	385

The seen is the shadowy the unseen the real	387

Those who rightly turn will patiently wait	389

With us but not of us	391

The Lord never gives his ear alone to trustful suppliants	393

Unwise inquiry	395

None need fear the strong who have the stronger than he at their back	396

Little success and large	398

The worthlessness of willworship	399

Special grace preparing for special trial	401

The Refuge of refuges	403

Yielding at last	405

Have faith in God	406

Proving fully must be followed by holding firmly	408

Disappointed expectancy	410

We may as surely lose salvation through selfrighteousness as through no righteousness	411

When trial comes we must neither despise nor despond	413

God delights in the lowly	414

The Jews who believed	416

The Jews who believed not	417

Sterling fidelity	420

Love in fullest revelation	421

Love mastering fear and expelling it	423

Precious as the Word is how few profit by it	425

Whatever the cloudings now there will be light undimmed hereafter	426

There is but one High Priest and no other is needed	428

None are excluded from the Refuge who seek to enter in	430

Shall the dead live again?	431

However slow in coming deliverance will be marvellously complete when it comes	433

None can overvalue the Son but many undervalue the Spirit	435

True religion is a choice not a constraint	437

Those who seem likeliest to come first to Christ often never come at all	438

Faith even in evil times can think brightly and speak cheerily	440

There can be no steady walking without divine upholding	442

Strange requests sometimes come from wicked lips	443

Salt must be in the right place and have the true savour	445

The very holiness of Jesus is the hope of the unholy	447

Those who waste time forget its brevity and how much depends on it	448

Though it is well to praise the Lord even without song it is better still to praise him with it	450

Rejecting the Word before reading it	451

The troublers and the troubled	453

The sad a likeness of men	455

True cleansing	457

We should fear dissensions and try to heal them	458

When we stand near the Lord we are best able to stand fast	459

We must put on charity	461

Our Lords timely caution	462

Real contentment is rare	465

Forgiveness is never a solitary gift	467

The promised presence of the God of peace	468

Essentials in religion are ever first with the Lord and should be with us	470

Mighty and willing to save	472

Suppliants encouraged	474

A mystery solved	475

The true Sweetener of every bitter	477

Resurrection and light	479

The highest citizenship	480

There is no gratitude like that which is heavenkindled	482

After the partings will come meetings again	483

What we can work out and what we cannot	485

Great iniquity needs a great forgiveness and God gives it	487

It is poor hearing that is not followed by hearty doing	489

There is no training like Bible training	490

It needs both care and prayer to keep hope bright	492

A hopeful beginning may have a sorrowful ending	493

To be strong we must be true	494

There may be great love in granting recovery but sometimes love greater still in withholding it	496

Sometimes the most hopeful of symptoms is a closed lip	497

A true gospel ministry is a choice heavenly gift	499

Beware of uncertain things	500

Enrichment with better than gold	502

The love in God and the enmity in man	503

Treasure in earthen vessels	504

The receiving of Christ and salvation	506

Love refusing	507

Continuance in the faith	508

Conflict has no cessation here	510

The chastening of the Lord is rarely welcomed however needed	511

The great faith which honoured God and that God honoured	512

The sure and the definite	514

The prayer offered on the night of nights	516

Though we can destroy Gods image we cannot restore it again	517

It is a snare to dwell rather on the little attainable in sanctification than on the much	519

Guilt the greatest and grace the richest met on the cross	520

There is no promisekeeper like the Lord	522

The humbling failure of one disciple and the loving fidelity of another	523

The disciples censure of Mary	525

Confirmation needful	526

The fulness that dwells in Christ warrants any amount of freeness in drawing from it	527

When the times are eventful we cannot be too watchful	529

The veil rent and the way opened	533

Those oft in journeyings should be oft in prayer	534

It is not little but large petitioning that the Lord most delights in	536

When spoken in the Spirit even a single word is often savingly effectual	538

We must test as well as listen	539

We can neither too early nor too earnestly sow the good seed of the kingdom	541

True gratitude ever pants for expression	543

Obedience has but little value if unlinked with the name of Jesus	545

The Lords jewels are widely gathered	547

Needful fixity	549

The day that none can know	550

Two classes contrasted	552

The superiority declared	554

Trustful reliance	556

Before we can abide we must come	557

After coming we must abide	559

Abraham Gods friend	560

Might alone could not have delivered us	562

The fruit of chastening	564

Right glorying and wrong	566

The thirsting welcomed	567

We cannot save but we may variously help	569

We must not lightly leave our spheres	571

Faith overcoming	573

God is our Father	575

Trouble yet peace	577

We cannot overhope in Gods mercy	579

Not mans opinion but the Lords should ever be supreme with us	581

Silenced for a moment triumphant for ever	583

The Lords commendation of Mary	586

Worthless yet welcome	589

Seek first things first	590

The sickness of Pauls friend	592

Nothing gives such efficacy to prayer as abiding intimacy with the Lord	594

Men may be heavy losers without knowing it	595

There are always wise reasons for strange commands	597

Those within should think of those without	599

The more spontaneous our beneficence the more precious	601

The incurable cured	603

Some believe but fail to confess	604

True holiness is a thing of detail as well as of generality	606

It is pressure that tests men	608

A pleasing perplexity	610

The Leader divinely given	612

The unlikely bringers of our best things	614

A hasty deliverance is apt to be an imperfect one	616

The fulfilment that must	618

Prayerful mention XIX Inviting to dine XX The only fountain opened for sin and for uncleanness XXI The outcome of grace XXII Out of the kingd...	620

The marriage feast and Jesus there	634

Words to cheer from kingly lips	635

XXVIIL Weary not XXVII The fame that will be ever extending XXIX The Lords promise of the Spirit XXX The home of homes	637

The last promise in the Word and the grandest	646

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書籍名	From Day to Day; Or, Helpful Words for Christian Life: Daily Readings for a Year
著者	Robert MacDonald
出版社	T. Nelson, 1879
書籍の提供元	プリンストン大学
デジタル化された日	2008年3月20日
ページ数	648 ページ

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