Choice Gleanings - April 13

April 13 - Choice Gleanings

 DAILY READINGS: Leviticus 21; Psalms 124-127; Mark:7:24And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.
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The Lord sent out a great wind…there was a mighty tempest…Jonah:1:4But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
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Now the Lord had prepared a great fish… Jonah:1:17Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
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And the Lord God prepared a gourd… Jonah:4:6And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
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But God prepared a worm… Jonah:4:7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
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…God prepared a vehement east wind… Jonah:4:8And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
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"Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby"  (Heb:12:11Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
See All...). As in Jonah’s experience, so too in our lives, things that we may find unpleasant are the hand of God at work to bring about a transformation that will ultimately benefit us and glorify Himself. —W. H. Burnett

Faint not, Christian! Though thy God, smite thee with the chastening rod;

Smite He must with Father’s care, that He may His love declare.—J. Evens

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