Pilgrim Portions

MEDITATIONS FOR THE DAY OF REST


Selected from the Writings, Hymns, Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby  

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“Those He calls His own

—pilgrims in scenes where He has been.”

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Selected by H. G.

Cover of book Pilgrim Portions


    Weeks

Preface
1—Sin

2—Grace

3—The Word of God

4—The Holy Spirit

5—The Perfections of Christ

6—Faith

7—Peace

8—Guidance

9—Humility

10—Trial

11—Communion

12—Conflict

13—Devotedness

14—Unbelieving fears

15—Separation from the world

16—Joy

17—Dependence

18—Cross Bearing

19—Looking unto Jesus

20—Growth

21—The presence of God

22—Service

23—Divine Affections (1)

24—Divine affections (2)

25—Self-renunciation

26—Songs of the night

27—The Man of sorrows

28—Love

29—The all-sufficiency of Christ

30—Divine energy

31—Help from the sanctuary

32—Rest

33—The faithfulness of God

34—Submission

35—Satisfaction

36—Nearness to God

37—Backsliding and restoration

38—The Light of eternity

39—Our needs and
       His fulness

40—Power

41—The divine heart

42—Practical santification

43—Praise

44—Cheer for pilgrims

45—The will of God

46—Simpathy

47—The courts above

48—Christ is all

49—Walking with God

50—Confidence

51—The heavently light

52—Our hope

TWENTY-SIXTH WEEK

SONGS OF THE NIGHT


“In the night his song

shall be with me.

                    Psalm 42:8


And oh I how deep the peace when, nature gone,

    Thy Spirit fills the soul, strengthened with might,

With love divine; and God as love is known!

    Lord! keep my soul, and guide my steps aright.

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Praise be for ever His who giveth songs by night.



The most important victory has often come when we have been most afraid of being beaten; the brightest songs when an evil day has forced us to lean on God.

 

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To me partings go dreadfully deep. In spirit all is well. … Jesus is the bond which no distance breaks and no nearness can give without Him, and which will, blessed be His name, last for ever.

 

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He weans us in every way from this world, that He may attach us to that one for which He has created us anew.

 

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God’s hand is always better than man’s; His seeming harshness even is better than the world’s favour; the spring which guides it is always love, and love directed by perfect wisdom, which we shall understand by and by.

 

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He makes His own feel that His support is worth all the trouble in the world.

 

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The soul needs daily the comfort of the blood.

 

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Broken vessels are often better than whole ones to shew the sufficiency and grace of Christ.

 

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His good hand is upon us, even (and very particularly) in things that are painful. It was not worth while to give a long history of the prosperity of Job, but the Holy Spirit of God has given us details of all that took place in his difficulties. It was worth while; and it is for the profit of His own to the end of the age. It is there that the work of our God is found. May He give us to have entire confidence in Him.

 

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Christianity was sown in the tears of the Son of God. It is the travail of His soul which He will see in that day. So in all service (and we must make up our minds to it) where there is to be real blessing there must be the sorrow of the world’s opposition, and even in the church the greater sorrow of trials, of failure, and shortcoming, where we desire to see Christ fully represented.

 

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Nature, of course, shrinks from suffering: still, when it comes, if we are with God, strength and joy are there. I have found in the little difficulties I have had much more trial in expecting trial than when it was there. When there I was calm and quiet and in no way uneasy. Whereas I was when expecting it: Out of it, if it threatens you are thinking of it. In it, you are looking out of it to the Lord.

 

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If the needed work can be done without the sorrow, He will not send the sorrow. … His love is far better than our will. Trust Him. … If He strikes, be assured He will give more than He takes away.

 

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[The loss of] a mother … is always an immense loss …. No one can be a mother but a mother, but God can be everything to us, and towards us in all our cares.”


Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest -

Selected from the Writings, Hymns, Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby
Scanning, OCR and revision according to the original: Santiago Escuain
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