Philpot Daily Portions

Philpot Daily Portions Another yearly devotional by J.C. Philpot!

January 1

“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our  hearts unto wisdom.”–Psalm 90:12

Casting our eyes back upon the year now past and gone,     are there no mercies which claim a note of thankful praise? It is sweet to     see the Lord’s kind hand in providence, but sweeter far to view his     outstretched hand in grace. Are we then so unwatchful or so unmindful of the     Lord’s gracious hand in his various dealings with our soul as to view the     whole past twelve months as a dead blank in which we have never seen his     face, nor heard his voice, nor felt his power? “Have I been a wilderness     unto Israel? a land of darkness?” (Jer 2:31,) the Lord tenderly asks. Has he     been such to us also for twelve long and weary months?

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