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For Men in and Others too! SERVICE* Five NEW TRACTS . . . Appealing messages of amazing power. Beautifully printed ln^* national colors. True soul-winners. Popular in - Camps and Overseas. Samples FREE. . Order NOW—have on hand when needed. Only 8c a doz.; 50c.a 100. Write today. Dépt. Faith, Prayer & Tract League KB2, Muskegon Heights, Mich culties that others bring us. But let us look upon these as instructors, as opportunities of proving * how Jesus is all to us, and our own pleasure or honor is nothing. Thus humiliations are what He allows to bring us low, that we may decrease. When we are nothing, the power and presence of Christ become our portion, and this is the secret of real inward happiness. 2. Christ humbled Himself; therefore God exalted Him. Over and over God commands: “Humble yourself.” That is our job; His is the “exaltation.” You see, we work by self and its strength under the name of faith. We rejoice in self, its accomplishments, its holiness, or goodness. Humility is to count self nothing. What depth of pride, what unwillingness to count oneself -nothing, we realize! Remember the law of nature? Acts persistently repeated produce habits, and habits beget dispositions. These strengthen or form the will (rightly formed will is character). Humble yourself, and He who works both to will and to do, comes-in to the humble heart with “more grace,” and power for the One who is willing to stoop for Him—how He stooped for us on Calvary! The exaltation? The highest glory of the creature is to receive, enjoy, and show forth the glory of the Creator. Water always first fills the lower place; the emptier the vessel the fuller the inflow. The exaltation is not an external thing apart from Himself. The greatest reward He can give is more of Himself. APRIL 15, 1945 HARNESSING MY EMOTIONS What do we usually think of when we think of harnesses? Horses, and .harnesses go together, do they not?- One isn’t of much value without the other, and neither is able to produce anything without someone to take the reins and direct the energy into a productive channel. This is true of Christians, too. We have within our beings storehouses of emotions; energies which may be manifested in one of two ways: either as the "works of the flesh” or as the "fruit of the Spirit,” "The Spirit... G alatians 5 : 19-24; C olossians 3:8-15 By Nettie N. Campbell
quickeneth; the flesh profiteth noth ing” (John 6:63). Which shall it be? Today we shall consider a few ques tions which concern this important matter of harnessing our emotions. For Those Who Have Topics I. HOW? We cannot begin to harness the old nature until we are possessors of the new. There would be nothing from which to make a harness; no one to hold the reins. The Christian’s harness is the everlasting, infallible, and com plete Word of the living God. Some people are fooling themselves into be lieving they can take a piece of God’s Word here and there, piece it together, and make a sort of make-shift “moral” harness with which to glorify the flesh. But flesh is flesh, and it never can be anything else. “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the king dom of God” (John 3:3). We need to be masters in handling God’s Word; know it, teach it, live it. Get the har ness on right (2 Tim. 2:15). Yield the reins moment by moment to the con trolling influence of the Holy Spirit; we cannot trust the flesh for any thing, at any time. God has promised to guide us with His eye. Growth in grace and knowledge of our Lord is not accomplished over night. The study of God’s Word is a lifetime pro position. The more we give ourselves to it, the more its value will be seen. The slogan of the dietician is: “We are what we eat.” This is true of the spiritual as well ds the physical body. What are you eating? What did you eat- today? “By their fruits ye shall know'them” (Matt. 7:20). We can not eat sawdust and live; neither can we feed on worldly husks and expect to manifest the fruit of the Spirit. II. WHY? God says His work is accomplished, “Not by might, nor by power, but by
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