"Dear God, You're my safe place. Yours is the presence that will never leave me to fend for myself. Your help and protection surround me always."
(p. 122) “We are all common man; therefore, we are all idiots. There was only one uncommon man—He is Jesus Christ. He is not an idiot. He knows you, and He joined you as one with your mate. It is He, and He alone, who can change you, your spouse, and your marriage. He longs to bless you. You must look up for help.”
#128 Quote - Embracing The Cross Of Christ A. W. Tozer
"Let us plant ourselves on the hill of Zion and invite the world to come over to us, but never under any circumstances will we go over to them. The cross is the symbol of Christianity, and the cross speaks of death and separation, never of compromise.
No one ever compromised with a cross. The cross separated between the dead and the living. The timid and the fearful will cry Extreme! and they will be right. The cross is the essence of all that is extreme and final.
The message of Christ is a call across a gulf from death to life, from sin to righteousness and from Satan to God. The first step for any Christian who is seeking spiritual power is to accept his unique position as a son of heaven temporarily detained on the earth, and to begin to live as becometh a saint.
The sharp line of demarcation between him and world will appear at once - and the world will never quite forgive him. And the sons of earth will make him pay well for separation, but it is a price he will gladly pay for the privilege of walking in fruitfulness and power."
1686-1690 One-line Scriptures for those of you who want to learn some more verses this week- or to review them from when they were first posted-
1686- Ez. 18:31b "Make you a new heart and a new spirit."
1687- Ez. 16:60a "I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth."
1688- Micah 7:2a "The good man is perished out of the earth."
1689- Ez. 33:22c "My mouth was opened."
1690- Job 27:10 "Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call
upon God?"
#128 Hymn- Sweet By and By 
In 1868 a Pharmacist named Sanford Fillmore Bennett, 31, was filling prescriptions and handling sales at his apothecary in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. His friend Joseph Webster entered the store. Joseph was a local musician, vocalist, violinist, and amateur composer who suffered from periods of depression. The two men had occasionally collaborated on hymns and songs, Sanford writing the words and Joseph the music.
On this particular day, Joseph was unusually blue and his face was long. Looking up, Sanford asked, "What is the matter now?" "It's no matter," Joseph replied, "it will be all right by and by."
An idea for a hymn hit Sanford like a flash of sunlight. Sitting at his desk, he began writing as fast as he could. The words came almost instantly. Two customers entered the drugstore, but no attempt was made to assist them — so they sallied over to the stove and visited with Joseph. Finally, Sanford rose and joined them, handing a sheet of paper to his friend.
"Here is your prescription, Joe," he said. "I hope it works." Webster read the words aloud:
There's a land that is fairer than day,
And by faith we can see it afar;
For the Father waits over the way,
To prepare us a dwelling place there.
In the sweet by and by,
We shall meet on that beautiful shore.
In the sweet by and by,
We shall meet on that beautiful shore.
Instantly a tune suggested itself, and Joseph jotted down some notes. Picking up his fiddle, he played his melody over a time or two, then said to the others, "We four make a good male quartet. Let's try the new song and see how it sounds."
As "Sweet By and By" was being sung tor the first time, another customer, R. R. Crosby, entered the store. "Gentlemen," he said, "I never heard that song before but it is immortal."
He was right. For over a hundred years we've been singing an immortal hymn that was written in less than thirty minutes in a drugstore.
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