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by S. D. Gordon

Week 12, Tuesday

From Hand to Mouth

Nobody likes to live from hand to mouth; it seems beggarly. These wilderness folk did. They couldn’t help themselves. There was no other way. When you sift down into the thing, so do we! Yes, we all live literally from hand to mouth. But then it’s God’s hand to our mouths. If God cut us off for one (lay, where should we be! Think into it a bit. How grateful we should be for such a faithful God!

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