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nism ; but His will was at one with God’s will, and so there was harmony and not discord even in the midst of strife. No thought but of goodwill was ever har bored in His breast, and so injuries, mis representations, even intentional malice, left Him invincible. The powers of evil combined together to do their worst and failed, leaving Him undefeated. His peace was won through the deliberate accep tance o f the Father’s will, and we may have His peace, even when in the world we have tribulation, through the har mony ’o f our will with God’s. The troub ling of idle regrets and useless repinings in our hearts is stilled, and the peace of God which passeth all understanding takes possession so that we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.— Selected. “Led forth with peace,” and therefore: day by day I journey on in peace, since Jesus leads the way. “Led forth with peace,” through this world’s busy mart, To learn in solitude the secrets of His heart. February 23— “And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged; and the fountains also o f the deep and the windows o f heoaten were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; and the waters returned from off the earth continually” (Gen. 8:1-5). All this because God remembered Noah. The forces of heaven and earth were en listed, reversed, ordered about, solely be cause God remembered Noah, and had plans for him. God has not forgotten you ; He has plans for you. He will as readily order about the forces of the uni verse on your account as. He did on Noah’s. His plans for Noah were also plans for the whole world through Noah. So they are for you : He will use you for the good of the whole world, if you will let Him.— Messages for the Morning Watch. February 24— “ Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out o f their distresses” (Psa. 107:19). Disappointment can lead us to our greatest blessing. M'any o f us have counted confidently on the success of cer tain plans, or on carefully considered fi nancial investments, or on continued physical health, or on the reliability of our best human friends, only to find that these have failed. The disappointment is sharp, perhaps staggering. What then ? There is something else that has not failed, and that never can fail. “Many would never have known how gentle and strong are the everlasting arms, and how good it is to lie back in them and rest there, if it had not been for the break ing down of all their earthly props. It is good to be shut up to God; and that which throws us wholly upon Him, though it may wear a strange disguise,, is an ‘angel unawares^’ ” Thus the disap pointment may be indeed “His appoint ment,” , and may lead us to blessing we never could have known if our earthly resources had not failed. When God’s people know of nowhere else to turn, then “they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and He saveth them.” If this
him? Nothing. Lazarus appears to have been undistinguished and commonplace. Yet, Jesus loved him. What a huge mul titude come under the category of “no bodies” ! Thank God for the common place people! They turn our houses into homes, and make life restful and sweet. We can do without genius better than we can do without homeliness. Here, then, is a great comforting truth. We are all loved, the brilliant and the commonplace, the dreamy and the practical.— Rev. J. H. Jowett, D.D. —o— February 2d—' “And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a moun tain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God" (Luke 6:12). There is something in wide spaces which aids, the expansiveness o f prayer, and redeems it from narrowness and meanness. And then a mountain by night! There we have height and depth, with the allied ministry o f mysterious silence. There is an absence o f glare and glamour, and in the deep hush the primary voice becomes audible, And then, again, “all night in prayer to,God” ! Think o f it— the night, the ceaseless communion! Let us not suppose that the Master spent the night in speech. There would be seasons of quiet listening, perhaps seasons when familiar psalms were sung, and seasons when He just comfortably realized the enwrapping presence of the Father in heaven. He sought to be perfectly at tuned to His Father’s will, in order that all His decisions might be one with the mind o f the Father in heaven.— Selected. Prayer changes things—there come to me New aspirations while I pray, For in His light I see the light And sunlit way. —o— February 21— “A s an eagle stirreth up her nest” (Deut. 32:11). Let us notice how God makes His eagles. God makes all things by a plan in His own mind. The first step in the progress of an eagle saint is to stir up the nest. When the young eagles have be come large enough to fly, the mother bird forces them out of the soft nest by tear ing away the’ soft lining and throwing everything out of the nest that would make it comfortable, and letting the young birds down on the sharp sticks and thorns so that they become dissatisfied with their home. This is the way God deals with those o f His servants that He calls into close and heroic union with Himself. God takes away the soft things on which we lean, the dear old props of nature, of friends, of old forms, and old ceremonies and old comforts. He under mines our natural foundations and lets us down on the, bare rock. If God did not thus stir our nest, we would be unwilling to move out into His realm. Abraham is a pattern, and he was God’s immigrant, and all true saints are immigrants from the old nest of natural things into the up per air of the things of God.— G. D. Wat son. —o— February 22— “My peace I give unto you. . . Let not your heart be troubled” (John 14:27). The Master knew what trouble meant, uncertainty, loneliness, failure, antago
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