THE CROSS

“‘If only you had paid attention

Isaiah 48:18

Intr.:

to my commands,

1. your peace would have been like a river,
2. your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
3. Your descendants would have been like the sand,
4. your children like its numberless grains; their name would never be cut off nor destroyed from before me.'”

End:

“EACH MORNING EVERYONE GATHERED AS MUCH AS HE NEEDED, AND WHEN THE SUN GREW HOT, IT MELTED AWAY.” – Exodus 16:21

In one of my German devotional treasuries I am reading the following:

It happened quite some time ago now at the official opening of a missionary headquarters in Germany. 

One of the speakers got quite carried away and said with a loud voice, “At last we have a place, where our enemy, the devil, cannot enter.”

But the blessed pastor G. D. Krummacher stood up and replied with authority, “Just as the serpent was able to enter paradise, the serpent will be able to enter the doors of this place.”

I am reading that in the book Lass dein Heil uns schauen, by Wilhelm Busch. (W. Busch worked as youth pastor in Essen/Germany about fifty years ago, where I heard him preach. I used to live in Bottrop at that time.)

THE CROSS

“‘I am the LORD,

Isaiah 45:6,7

Intr.:

and there is no other.

1. I form the light and
2. create darkness,
3. I bring prosperity and
4. create disaster;

End:

I, the LORD, do all these things,'”