Hour of Temptation

In the hour of spiritual temptation—in these hours (and where is the true child of God who has never known them?) take refuge in the written word, lie down in peace on many a blessed promise; reply to the tempter that, though God withholds for a time the spiritual bread which strengthens and the wine which cheers, "man does not live by broad alone, but by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God," and that you have enough, and more than enough, in that blessed word to subsist upon until God shall again comfort you with the light of His countenance and the fulness of His blessing. Trust as simply and entirely to God, during the famine of the soul, as your blessed Redeemer did in the famine of the body.—H. Blunt