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as the King of meekness rather than pride.—A. B. Simpson. Possessive Pronouns “Know ye not that . . . ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price” (1 Cor. 6:19, 20). It is the hardest thing in the grammar of life to learn to put “mine” and “ thine” in just the right place. That is life’s lesson. Paul had learned it when he wrote, “Ye are not your own,” and when he stood on that deck in the storm and said, “God, whose I am, and whom I serve.” The Christian man is the man who has found to whom he belongs.—W. W. Moore. Studied But Avoided “To me to live is Christ” (Phil. 1:21). One must express% deep regret that Christianity is so exhaustively studied but so sparingly lived; t that we know so much about it, and yet so little of it; that we so painstakingly explore every nook and cranny of the bypaths, and yet so skillfully avoid the way; that the reality and the truth of Him whose supreme and total contribution to the world is life, should be sought so much today apart from life rather than in it.—Selected. 26. Scars of Backsliding “And Abram went up out of Egypt, . . . unto the place of the altar” (Gen. 13:1-4). Abraham made a splendid recovery from the sad lapse of faith that took him' down to Egypt . . . But he seems to have acquired there an addition to his household servants, one .Hagar, a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose presence in his home was to be for over twenty years a source of constant temptation, strife, and unhappiness. We bring with us from our backslidings sad new pos sessions, inward scars . . . that are. hin drances to the life of faith. —J. B. Watson. Mountain of Calvary “And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him” (Lk. 23:33). Above and beyond all mountains as a skyscraper is above a dugout in height, as a tree is beyom} a twig in fruit-bearing . . . is Calvary. For there God, in bloody garments dressed, courted our love. There, at the interlocking of the ages, Christ put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself, redeeming man from death unto life . * . There, with power to smite His' enemies with a thunderbolt, He elected to die on a cross.—Robert G. Lee.* *Reprinted from "Calvary" by special per mission of Zonderdan Pub. House, Grand Rapids, Mich, 24. 25. 27.
the sentence of the cross is that which diust be expected . . . The disciple, with eye eagerly following the pathway of his Master, has no ear for the stric tures of the world—sufficient for him to know that it is his Master’s way, — A. T. Schofield. Silence Before Him "The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him” (Hab. 2:20). God loves to speak in the silence. It was amid the awesome silence of the Arabian desert that Paul received many divine communications. It was in the silence of the same desolate region that Moses was prepared for his life work. It is precious to speak to the Lord; it is more precious still to be silent be* fore Him and' hear Him speaking to us.—E. Adams. 21. Probabilities "Faith is . . . the evidence of things not seen” , (Heb. 1:1). What is faith ? A great many of God’s children are cast down and lament their want of faith. They write to me and say that they have no impressions, no feeling, they see no probability that the thing they wish will come to pass. Many people are willing to believe re garding those things that seem probable to them. Faith has nothing to do with probabilities. The province of faith be gins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail. ■—George Muller. 22. Beauty from the Fragments "I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten” (Joel 2:25). How is it with your life ? . . . Have the mistakes of early years seemingly wrecked it? . . . 'men know this: Jesus Christ is a matchless life-mender. He will take that seemingly shattered life and fashion a far more beautiful one from its fragments than you yourself could ever have wrought from the whole . . . And the fragments that remain of God’s heritage of life to you shall mean more than all the vanished years that .are crooning their sad lament in your innermost soul tonight. —James McConkey. 23. How He Came to Earth “Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor” (2 Cor. 8:9). His friends and companions wdre of the humblest class, rude fishermen', com mon people, without culture, and often without the ability to appreciate their blessed Master . . . Yet never once did He complain or even intimate the dif ference. He asked no earthly honors; and the only time that He did assume the prerogatives of a king He rode upon the foal of an ass, and entered Jerusalem 20.
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