September 10

In the daytime ... He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. — Ps 78:14

My day is my prosperity; it is the time when the sun of fortune is bright above me, and, therefore, it is the time when I need a shade. If my sunshine were not chequered I would forget Thee, O my God.

But I have nights to meet as well as days. The night is my adversity; it is the time when the sun of fortune has gone down behind the hills, and I am left alone, and then it is, O my Father, that I need the light of Thy fire! My light of fire for the night is the vision of Calvary the vision of Thy love in the Cross. I need the light of Thy fire “ all the night.” — George Matheson.