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Editor’s Note: Pastor Scott Peterson continues to share devotions from some of his favorite authors. May 5, 2020 I will what thou will'st--only keep me sureThat thou art willing; call to me now and then.So, ceasing to enjoy, I shall endureWith perfect...

Editor's Note: Pastor Scott Peterson continues to share devotions from some of his favorite authors. May 1, 2020 - The Waiting God I see a little child whose eager handsSearch the thick stream that drains the crowded streetFor possible things hid in its current...

April 30, 2020 - Accepted Law is our schoolmaster, Our Master, ChristLived under all our laws, yet always prayed--So walked the water when the storm was highest.Law is thy Father's; thou hast it obeyed,And it thereby subject to thee hast made--To rule it, Master, for...

April 29, 2020 In the low mood, the mere man acts alone,Moved by impulses which, if from within,Yet far outside the center man begin;But in the grand mood, every softest toneComes from the living God at very heart--From thee who infinite core of being art,Thee who...

April 28, 2020 But why should it be possible to mistrust-Nor possible only, but its opposite hard?Why should not man believe because he must--By sight's compulsion? Why should he be scarredWith conflict? worn with doubting fine and long?No man is fit for heaven's...

April 27, 2020 - Daily Devotion Some say that thou their endless love hast wonBy deeds for them which I may not believeThou ever didst, or every willedst done;What matter, so they love thee? They receiveEternal more than the poor loom and wheelof their invention ever...

DEVOTION FOR SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2020 Too eager I must not be to understand.How should the work the Master goes aboutFit the vague sketch my compasses have planned?I am his house--for him to go in and out.He builds me now-and if I cannot seeAt any time what he is...

I am lost before thee, Father! I willclaim of thee my birthright ineffable.Thou lay'st it on me, son, to claim thee, sire;To that which thou hast made me, I aspire;To thee, the sun, upflames thy kindled fire.No man presumes in that to which he was born;Less than the...

I would go near thee- but I cannot pressInto thy presence--it helps not to presume.Thy doors are deeds, the handles are their doing.He whose day-life is obedient righteousness,Who, after failure, or a poor success,Rises up, stronger effort yet renewing--He finds thee,...

Lord, I have fallen again--a human clod!Selfish I was, and heedless to offend;Stood on my rights. Thy own child would not sendAway his shreds of nothing for the whole God!Wretched, to thee who savest, now I bend;Give me the power to let my rag-rights goIn the great...