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AUGUST 16 E very P ra y e r A nsw ered
The pillars rest, And I am blest To know—that He Has bidden me “be still,” And wait the unfolding of His plan, The revealing of His will.
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“Trust thou in the Lord" (Psa. 115:9). “There is no such thing,” said the late Dr. Macleod, “in the long history of the kingdom of God, as an unanswered prayer. Every true desire from a child’s heart finds some true answer in the heart of God.” . . '. Knowing Him of whom we ask, we may restfully believe He has answered, even if H'e does not demonstrate to us that He has done so. . ... God withholds for a time that thou mayest learn to desire great things greatly. God has occasion, often times, to teach us the quickly forgotten les son, that the success of our petition depends not upon the value of our prayers, but upon the faithfulness of Him to whom we pray.— L ucy A. B e n n e t t . AUGUST 17 AH His “He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit" (1 Cor. 6:17)..)/ Life in Christ is illustrated in various ways—the Head and the limbs, the Vine and the branches; but it is not merely a figurative contact. There is something deeper, stronger, and more real. The Holy Ghost unites the humblest Christian with Christ his Head in closer union than that of my hand with my body. Your very life is the blessed" life of the Son of God. . . . “Not I, but Christ liveth in me,” is a divine fact for the believer. . . . If Christ is to have His due, all that we possess-is Hisj/J our whole being, our money, our time. — H a ndley C. G. M ou le . AUGUST 18 T h e M odern N ehem iah “For what dost thou make request?” (Neh. 2:4). , Christians may well ponder this scene, and ask whether, in their interest for the building of the heavenly Jerusalem, and in their eagerness to please its Master, they are like Nehemiah; though for the added light and blessing of-, the New Testament they should be far ahead of him. Shame on us! Is not the work as noble and as deeply needed now as then? Let us ask the King of kings whether He will not: send us forth to build for Him. He will not ask,dike Artaxerxes, “When wilt thou return?” for when He sends He accom panies : “Lo, I am with you alway” (Matt. 28:20.— H ubert B rooke . “Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip” (Heb. 2:1). These people were appealed to on the basis of a revelation which they had re ceived from God. The word translated “ought” in verse 1 means “it is necessary.” It is a solemn truth that a Christian can drift. Those of you who know anything about boating will know what drifting means. Do not drift. That is the danger after you have entered into a measure of spiritual blessing—losing interest in the familiar. Let us think of Christ as the anchor of the soul. And since Christ is the rudder also, we have two associated ideas. Christ as the anchor is steadfast, AUGUST 19 Do N ot D rift
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His purpose here May take a year Or more or less. A month—a week—a day,
And then—I’ll hear the Master say, “Arise ! I’ll lead you all the way.” • s W - E lbert L : M c C reery . AUGUST 13 God’s P eacem akers “Blessed are the peacemakers’’ (Matt. 5:9). God’s peacemakers . . . . have learned the poverty of their own spirits. They have wept tears, if not real and literal, yet those which are far more agonizing—tears of spirit and conscience—when they have thought of their own demerits and foul nesses.1They have bowed in humble sub mission to the will of God, and even to that will as expressed by the antagonisms of man. They have yearned after the posses sion of a fuller and nobler righteousness than they have attained. . . . Brethren, the peacemaker who is worthy of the name must have gone through these deep spir itual experiences. Begin by all means with poverty);®f spirit, or you will never get to thisAs-“Blessed are the peacemakers.’! — A lex a n d er M a cla ren . AUGUST 14 W ithout C arefulness “Thou art careful and troubled about many things’ (Lk. 10:41). “Careful and troubled’$j5rdpe|i this de scribe your condition of mind? Are you anxious and worried about many things? Many who have learned to cast their sins on the Lord are in the habit of carrying the burden of their cares. Hence they become unfit for the Master’s use. Now we know the Lord would not have us to be careless about our daily duties,, how ever common and ordinary they may be. “Care” in the sense of diligence is a Chris tian virtue. To walk consistently, we must walk carefully. To adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things, we must guard against being slovenly and indiffer ent about little duties. But in the sense of being anxious or distracted, we must be “without carefulness.”— S elected . AUGUST 15 W hen W e Believe “Ye shall not go out with haste" (Isa. 52:12). Our Lord is our best Exemplar. He moved slowly and deliberately through His crowded years. He had leisure for every appeal, for the touch of each wan hand. . . . His secret, using our human phrase, lay in His simple faith. He believed, and therefore did not make haste. Every inci dent in His life had been arranged by His Father’s unfailing care. When we really believe in God, His providence, and His arrangement of our lives, to us, too, there will come this blessed calm; and whenever we are tempted to get feverish and' fretful, we shall compel ourselves to go out be neath the arch of God’s eternal years, say ing, “Return unto thy rest, O my soul.” —Life of Faith.
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