Streams in the Desert January 17 Daily Devotional

O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee? (Dan.6:20)
How many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet

it is just this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight of.
We know it is written "the living God"; but in our daily life there is scarcely anything we practically so much lose sight of as the fact that God is the living God, that He is now whatever He was
three or four thousand years since; that He has the same sovereign
power, the same saving love towards those who love and serve Him as ever He had and that He will do for them now what He did for others
two, three, four thousand years ago, simply because He is the
living God, the unchanging One. Oh, how therefore we should confide
in Him, and in our darkest moments never lose sight of the fact that He is still and ever will be the living God!
Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him and expect help from Him, He will never fail you. An older brother who has known the Lord for forty-four years, who writes this, says to you for
your encouragement that He has never Wed him. In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and
necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I
delight in speaking well of His Name.--George Mueller.
Luther was once found at a moment of peril and fear, when he had need to grasp unseen strength, sitting in an abstracted mood
tracing on the table with his finger the words, "Vivit! vivit!"
("He lives! He lives!") It is our hope for ourselves, and for His truth, and for mankind. Men come and go; leaders, teachers, thinkers speak and work for a season, and then fall silent and impotent He abides. They die, but He fives. They are lights
kindled, and, therefore, sooner or later quenched; but He is the
true fight from which they draw all their brightness, and He shines for evermore.--Alexander Maclaren.
"One day I came to know Dr. John Douglas Adam," writes C. G. Trumbull. "I learned from him that what he counted his greatest spiritual asset was his unvarying consciousness of the actual
presence of Jesus. Nothing bore him up so, he said, as the
realization that Jesus was always with him in actual presence; and that this was so independent of his own feelings, independent of
his deserts, and independent of his own notions as to how Jesus would manifest His presence.
"Moreover, he said that Christ was the home of his thoughts.
Whenever his mind was free from other matters it would turn to
Christ--, and he would talk aloud to Christ when he was alone-on the street anywhere--as easily and naturally as to a human friend. So real to him was Jesus' actual presence.