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== Classic: Yesterday == | == Classic: Yesterday == | ||
''The God of Israel will be your | ''The God of Israel will be your reward. — Isaiah 52:12'' | ||
Security from Yesterday. “God requireth that which is past.” At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise from remembering the yesterdays. Our present enjoyment of God’s grace is apt to be checked by the memory of yesterday’s sins and blunders. But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them in order to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual culture for the future. God reminds us of the past lest we get into a shallow security in the present. | Security from Yesterday. “God requireth that which is past.” At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise from remembering the yesterdays. Our present enjoyment of God’s grace is apt to be checked by the memory of yesterday’s sins and blunders. But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them in order to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual culture for the future. God reminds us of the past lest we get into a shallow security in the present. | ||
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Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him. | Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him. | ||
== Updated: Yesterday == | == Updated: Yesterday == | ||