June 16 / Springs in the Valley by L.B. Cowman

June 16

O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river. (Isa. 48:18)

Do we not see how God’s purposes are thwarted and deferred by human perversity? At the very time when God had determined upon the election and consecration of Aaron to the priesthood, Aaron was spending his time in molding and chiseling the golden calf.

We might have been crowned fifty years ago, but just as the coronation was about to take place we were discovered in the manufacture of an idol. The Lord was just ready to make kings of us when we made fools of ourselves.
JOSEPH PARKER

One small life in God’s great plan—
How futile it seems as the ages roll,
Do what it may or strive how it can
To alter the sweep of the infinite whole!
A single stitch in the endless web,
A drop in the ocean’s flow or ebb;
But the pattern is rent where the stitch is lost,
Or marred where the tangled threads have crossed:
And each life that fails of true intent
Mars the perfect plan that its Master meant.


Remember the awful truth that I can limit Christ’s power in the present, although I can never alter God Almighty’s order for a moment.
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There is a niche in God’s own Temple, it is thine; And the hand that shapes thee for it, is Divine.

Cowman, L. B. E.. Springs in the Valley (pp. 180-181). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.