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each hour, may witness an upward step, never leaving the foundation-—Christ—but putting more weight upon it as the build ing grows higher.— S. A. B lackwood . FEBRUARY 26 “Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth” (Job 5:17). In his own half-instructed state, Eliphaz cannot see beyond the fact that positive good comes to the man who accepts the di vine correction of his sin with meekness of spirit. He has not learned for himself that God’s chastening is part of His care, and is rich with promise of moral benefit. Hence he seeks to comfort Job with the assurance that if he will but bow beneath God’s hand, his lost riches will recover, and the mate rial evidences of the divine favor will be restored. That Job is unable to receive such comfort is not to be wondered at, since the man who is in the dark as to God’s dealings with him has little heart for mere temporal possessions. For it is not their loss which has really impoverished him, nor is it their restoration which can supply the need of his heart. Only in the light of Christ’s teaching can we truly understand the seeming contradictions of God’s love. God’s love is so kindly in its redemptive purpose as sometimes to appear unkindly in its processes. And He is content to wait for His own vindication. —J. S tuart H olden . FEBRUARY 27 “ The Lord is faithful, who shall . . . keep you from evil’’ (2 Thess. 3:3). “How am I to be kept? Who is my keeper?” He who is your Redeemer, who is your Justifier. “ But am I not to keep my self ? Does it not say that I am to keep my self in the love of God, for instance? Is there not something for me to do?” Well, look at it. Keep yourselves in, and the Lord will keep you from. You get out of the sinking ship, and you get into the lifeboat. There are the waves, the rollers; there is the land. Will you get out and help the lifeboat to keep you up, will you struggle with those waves, will you battle with those rollers? N o; what will you do? You will keep in the boat. What will the boat do? Keep you from sinking. What the boat is to you there, Christ is to you now. “The Lord is thy keeper.” The responsibility o f keeping you from sinking belongs entirely to H im ; the responsibility of trusting Him to keep you belongs to you. —E van H. H opkins . FEBRUARY 28 “ And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them . . . their eyes were opened, and they knew him’’ (Lk. 24:30,31). I made a cake today as to the Lord, And baked a pie as though He were my Guest. I swept a room, and made it pure and clean, As though within its walls my Lord should rest. And then, His handiwork to best disclose, Before my mirror placed one thornless rose. When evening Came, I made a hearth-fire bright O f white birch logs, and lighted candles fair Placed on a tahle near the blessed Book, And, close beside, the deepest easy chair; And as I spread the cloth—the simple meal, My Master’s presence I could plainly feel. —G ene H. O sborne . MARCH 1 “Reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize” (Phil. 3:13, 14).
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