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desire. But I question very much whether there is any need to pray that. I think what we should pray is rather this: “ Lord, make me usable.” You should pray that you may be made usable, because there is no: denying the fact that, although there are so many who profess to belong to the Lord, a large number of them are entirely unusable by God. My friends, are you among those whom God desires to use, yet cannot use? If so, may He grant that this hour may be a time of such adjustment to His will that you may go forth a usable man or woman.—W . H. A ldis . MAY 24 Sowing and Reaping “ Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" (Gal. 6:7). This is a truth which obtains in the spiritual realm as surely as in the physical order of things. We read it in the history of man. W e see it in nations. No one is exempt from the operation o f this law. Men speak of belief and unbelief. They confound the former with opinion which is not certain. W e realize that in the ordi nary events of life, the truth stands, a lie falls. The master tells the servant to say he is not at home; the servant in turn lies to his master when it suits his convenience. The merchant who encourages his clerks to be dishonest finds that they will be dis honest to him. So an evil business pro duces its own fruitage. —D. L. M oody . MAY 25 Because He Loved “ The Lord . . . set his love upon you, . . . because the Lord loved you" (Deut. 7 :7, 8). If I were to puzzle myself all my life to try and find out why God loved me, I should be able to give no other reason than because He is lov e; and by and by, in the glory, I shall be as unable to explain God’s love as I am now. “ God is love” ; there fore, He loves me. What a comfort this is to our hearts I By this we can slay that monster, Unbelief. If the temptation comes to you, “ I am unworthy, unfit for God” ; say, “It was because I am so un holy and unlovely that He loved me.” The love o f God outstrips the love o f man as far as eternity outstrips time. —H. W . S oltau . MAY 26 Only a Voice "The voice of one crying , . . Prepare ye” (Lk. 3:4 ). You are a Sunday-school teacher. For years you have been sowing the seed of the Word in the hearts of your scholars, quickening it with prayer, watering it with tears. You are not especially able or bril liant as a teacher. You think that the boys and girls will soon go out into the world, and you and all your words be for gotten. And so they do go out to begin life in earnest. The storms o f temptation arise ; the billows of passion surge over the soul ; darkness, sin, and eternal death are at hand. . . . The boy is about to be shipwrecked ! But suddenly, at the awful crisis, a voice from within breaks upon his startled conscience like thé warning cry from the fatal cliff, flashing some message from the Word of God into his memory. He hears—-hesitates—and turns back from the black abyss of sin. In the hour o f his deadliest peril, he has been saved by a yoice ! What though he does not remem ber it was a message that you gave him away back in his boyhood days ? What though he has forgotten you? . . . Hereby
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