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Conferences with God in the Morning Hours of Every Day of the Year. Literally Tr., from the Last Ed
Conferences with God in the Morning Hours of Every Day of the Year Literally Tr from the Last Ed Author:Christoph Christian Sturm General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1867 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: DAILY CONFERENCES WITH GOD, JA1TUARY 1. 0ur Life Rests With God. My times are in Thy hand. -- Ps. xxxi. 15. How specially important is this certainty to me, and more so on this day, upon my parting with the old year, and my entrance upon the new ! For when I consider this morning how much I have sinned during the past year, and how much I have deserved punishment; when I think how many opportunities and what power I had to do good -- how many hlessings I could have promoted -- and yet how little I have done towards that end; when I admit how dependent I am on men -- and how variable these men are, and how much they are subject to circumstances; when I observe the feebleness of my own body and soul, and of those who belong to me, and, on that account, everything that may hang over us ; when I say all this to myself this morning, if I had no Rock whereon to hold myself, then would my heart faint and be sorrowful even unto death, for I should dread the future, and should almost wish that I had not survived this day -- but have departed and been with Christ, for I should then rest from my labours and be freed from the cares of the world and the body. Yet why art thou sorrowful, 0 my soul, and so restless within me ? Behold, thy time is in the hand of God, and thisGod is merciful and gracious, patient, and of great kindness and truth, and will be everything to thee if thou wilt only serve Him more honestly and more steadfastly than hitherto. This God has revealed Himself to us in the crucified Redeemer as the reconciled Father, Who desireth not the death of a sinner, hut that he should he converted and ...« less