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by L B Cowman
Nothing Satisfies
February 26
"It is not in me" (Job 28:14).
I remember a summer in which I said, "It is the ocean I need," and I went to the
ocean; but it seemed to say, "It is not in me!" The ocean did not do for me what
I thought it would. Then I said, "The mountains will rest me," and I went to the
mountains, and when I awoke in the morning there stood the grand mountain that I
had wanted so much to see; but it said, "It is not in me!" It did not satisfy.
Ah! I needed the ocean of His love, and the high mountains of His truth within.
It was wisdom that the "depths" said they did not contain, and that could not be
compared with jewels or gold or precious stones. Christ is wisdom and our
deepest need. Our restlessness within can only be met by the revelation of His
eternal friendship and love for us.
--Margaret Bottome
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"My heart is there!
'Where, on eternal hills, my loved one dwells
Among the lilies and asphodels;
Clad in the brightness of the Great White Throne,
Glad in the smile of Him who sits thereon,
The glory gilding all His wealth of hair
And making His immortal face more fair
THERE IS MY TREASURE and my heart is there.
"My heart is there!
'With Him who made all earthly life so sweet,
So fit to live, and yet to die so meet;
So mild, so grand, so gentle and so brave,
So ready to forgive, so strong to save.
His fair, pure Spirit makes the Heavens more fair,
And thither rises all my longing prayer
THERE IS MY TREASURE and my heart is there."
--Favorite poem of the late Chas. E. Cowman
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