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little children, these things write 1 unto you, that ye sirt not*9 (1 John 1:4; 2:1). The joy of summer will not last; the joy of riches will not abide; the joy of youth refuses to tarry; but the joy of Jesus stays on—and it is the only joy that stays . . . Sin is the great kill-joy _ in the world. Sin pierced the peace of heaven with pain. No wonder it causes us heartache and grief and vexation! So John reasons: “If you want to be glad, you have, first of all, got to be good.” Sin always kills something. Oh, the damage of a single sin! What hap piness it slays! “These things write I unto you, that ye sin not.” —John MacBeath. A man that is destitute knows how to pray. He needs not any instructor. His miseries indoctrinate him wonderfully in the art of offering prayer. Let us know ourselves destitute, that we may know how to pray—destitute of strength, of wisdom, of due influence, of true happi ness, of proper faith, of thorough conse cration, of the knowledge of the Scrip tures, of righteousness. These words in troduce and stand in immediate connec tion with a prophecy of glorious things to be witnessed in the latter times. We profess to be eager for the accomplish ment of those marvelous things; but are we offering the prayer of the destitute? —George Bowen. July 13— “I f we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us” (1 John 5:14). There is no other possible way of get ting into God’s love and blessing in prayer than by getting into His will. In prayer, Give yourself up absolutely to the blessed will of God; this will avail more than much asking . . . Let your prayer be in deed a “morning sacrifice,” a placing of yourself as a whole burnt offering on the altar of the Lord. We need to be still— to wait and hear what response God gives. This is the office of the Holy Spir it: to be the voice of God to us. In the hidden depths of the heart, He can give a secret but most certain assurance that we are heard, that we are well-pleasing, that the Father engages to do for us what we have asked. What we need, to^ hear the voice, to receive this assurance, is the quiet stillness that waits on God, the quiet faith that trusts in God, the quiet heart that bows in nothingness and hu mility before God and allows Him to be all in all.— Andrew Murray. —o— July 14 —“The angel of the Lord said . . . submit thyself” (Gen. 16:9). The Lord has never guaranteed to His people that they will be free from hard ship or suffering—far from it . . . But when there is submission of heart and life and will, He undertakes, and ^the ' promise is ever true and unfailing: “All things work together for good to them that love God.” “Ill that God blesses is our good, And unblessed good is ill. And all is right that seems most wrong, If it be His swfeet will.” —H. W. Hinde. . July 12— “He will regard the prayer of the destitute” (Psa. 102:17).
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