The Lord Is My Perpetual Aid

December 3.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace
in believing, that ye may abound in hope,
through the power of the Holy Ghost.

ROMANS 15, verse 13.


To heaven I lift my waiting eyes;
There all my hopes are laid;
The Lord that built the earth and skies
Is my perpetual aid.

ISAAC WATTS.


Grovel not in things below, among earthly cares,
pleasures, anxieties, toils, if thou wouldst have
a good strong hope on high. Lift up thy cares
with thy heart to God, if thou wouldst hope
in Him. Then see what in thee is most displeasing
to God. This it is which holdeth thy hope down.
Strike firmly, repeatedly, in the might of God,
until it give way. Thy hope will soar at once
with thy thanks to God who delivered thee.

E. B. PUSEY.


The snares of the enemy will be so known to thee
and discerned, the way of help so manifest and
easy, that their strength will be broken, and the
poor entangled bird will fly away singing, from
the nets and entanglements of the fowler; and
praises will spring up, and great love in thy
heart to the Forgiver and Redeemer.

I. PENINGTON.