September 13

Backsliding and Restoration

“He restores my soul.”
— Ps. 23:3

“How often the absence of God causes His value to be felt, whose presence had not been appreciated!”

“The slippery path of sin is often trodden with accelerated steps, because the first sin tends to weaken in the soul the authority and power of that which alone can prevent our committing still greater sins — that is, the word of God, as well as the consciousness of His presence, which imparts to the word all its practical power over us.”