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The Smiles Of God, April 16
The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Proverbs 10:22
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Nothing can do us real good without the blessing of God. What God blesses is
blessed. Therefore “a little that a righteous man hath is better that the riches of
many wicked.”
Psalm 37:16
. The little with the blessing of God is more efficient,
and it will extend farther. The grace of God will make a little go a great ways.
When we devote ourselves to the affairs of the kingdom of God, He will mind our
affairs.”
The Lord has given us precious blessings in the simple flowers of the field, in
the fragrance so grateful to our senses. He has tinted every flower with beauty;
for He is the great Master Artist. He who has created the beautiful things in
nature will do far greater things for the soul. God is a lover of the beautiful, and
He would adorn our characters with His own rich graces. He would have our
words as fragrant as the flowers of the field. He has given us blessings in daily
provision for our physical needs. The very bread we are has upon it the image and
superscription of the cross.
They only are truly blessed whose chief concern is to secure those blessings
which will nourish the soul and endure forever. Our Saviour says to us, “Seek ye
first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added
unto you.”
Matthew 6:33
. God has a care for us, even to bestow His temporal
blessings upon us. Our earthly good is not beneath the notice of our heavenly
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Father. He knoweth that we have need of these things.... When God smiles upon
our efforts it is worth more than any earthly income.
“How sweet our daily comforts prove
When they are seasoned with His love.”
Every deliverance, every blessing, that God in the past has granted to His
people, should be kept fresh in memory’s hall as a sure pledge of further and
richer, increasing blessings that He will bestow.
There is no limit to the blessings that it is our privilege to receive.
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