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The Smiles of God, July 9
The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow
with it.
Proverbs 10:22
.
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 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.
These is no limit to the blessings that it is our privilege to receive.
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