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your need, according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” His hired servants have bread enough and to spare ; how much more His own! Your experiences may seem to contradict that glad announce ment; but perhaps you have not by faith sought and appropriated the supplies which have been placed ready to your hand; or you have not made known your requests unto God with prayer and sup plication ; or your hour of need has not yet fully come ; or you have misunderstood your real need, and are asking for some thing which would do you harm. In one of these directions you must seek the reason of the apparent disparity between these glad triumphant words and your own ex perience. For it is true for evermore, that, “there is no want to them that fear him.” NOVEMBER 1 N ot t h e C r o ss b u t t h e C r u c if ie d “Look unto me, and be ye sewed, all the ends of the earth” (Isa. 45 :22). In the days o f knightly chivalry, it was supposed to be enough for the true soldier of the cross to make the sacred sign upon his person; and instantly the foul spirits, that had gathered in the murky gloom to do him harm, fell back, and let him through. It was not all legend and myth. There is a truth beneath the mediaeval setting. And that truth is ours today—that the hardly-beset soldier o f Jesus is to ap peal, not to the cross, but to Him who on that cross bruised the serpent’s head, not for Himself only, but for us. NOVEMBER 2 Q u ic k R e p e n t a n c e “He that covereth his sins shall not pros per: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy” (Prov. 28:13). The true test o f Christian character does not consist in the inability to fall, but in the quick agony o f repentance, and in the immediate restoration to the ways which had been left. Directly you are conscious o f sin, turn at once to your compassionate Lord. Do not wait for the fever o f pas sion to subside, or for the agony o f your shame to die down; but, there and then, in the crowd or the street, lift up your heart, and ask Him to touch you with that finger before which uncleanness cannot abide: ask Him to wash you as He did the feet of His disciples, soiled by jealousy and strife for mastery: ask Him to restore your soul to the place it occupied before you fell. NOVEMBER 3 G od G iv e s t h e B e st “ To give .. . the oil o f joy for mourning, the garment o f praise for the spirit of heaviness” (Isa. 61:3). It is not an easy world for any of us to traverse; it is no friend to grace: but it is possible to walk through it with clean and stainless robes. Sin may assail; but it will be as the waves that beat outside the good ly ship without finding admittance within its walls. And out o f the pure and guileless heart shall spring all the loveliness o f un selfish and helpful deeds, such as shall make this sad world happier, and dark hearts bright with the light of heaven. O souls, weary and sin-sick, hand your selves over to the tender mercies o f the Good Physician, sure that He will under take the most desperate case; and “give beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourn ing, the garment o f praise for the spirit of heaviness” (Isa. 61:3).
terials we have collected. O f course, at times God may bid us act against our rea son; but these, are very exceptional: and then our duty will be so clear that there can be no mistake. But for the most part, God will speak in the results o f deliberate con sideration, weighing and balancing the pros and cons. OCTOBER 28 W r a p pe d i n P r a y e r “Behold, he prayeth” (Acts 9:11). In a time o f change and crisis, we need to be much in prayer, not only on our knees, but in that sweet form of inward prayer, in which the spirit is constantly offering itself up to God, asking to be shown His w ill; soliciting that it may be impressed upon its surface, as the heavenly bodies photograph themselves on prepared paper. Wrapt in prayer like this, the trust ful believer may tread the deck o f the ocean steamer night after night, sure that He who points the stars their courses will not fail to direct the soul which has no other aim than to do His will. OCTOBER 29 M a d e C h r is t ’ s b y G l a d S u r r e n d e r “ Yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead” (Rom . 6 :13). O f course, we all in a general way recog nize Christ’s ownership. “W e are his peo ple, and the sheep o f his pasture.” But we must do it in a particular and personal sense. . f . W e must be willing that His will should be as supreme, and as univer sally honored, in us, as it is in His own bright home. W e must come to the point of saying something like this: “ Lord Jesus, I am Thine by right; forgive me for hav ing lived so long as if I were my own. I now gladly recognize that Thou hast a rightful claim on all I have and am; I want to live as Thine from henceforth; and I do solemnly at this hour give myself to Thee, by my own glad choice: Thine en tirely : Thine in life and death: Thine for ever.” OCTOBER 30 R e c k o n in g t h e D eed D o n e “Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37). What we give, Christ takes; and at the moment o f our giving it. There may, per haps, be no rush o f emotion. W e may have no inward evidence o f the momentous change in our position. The reckoning may have for many days to be one, not o f feel ing, but o f faith. W e can only say, “I am H is; because I gave, and He took.” But sooner or later we become aware that the flames of the heavenly fire have fallen on our sacrifice, are feeding on it, appropriat ing it, cleansing it, and preparing it for blessed, holy service. Give, then, the bliss for which I pray Today, while it is called today, The nature pure, the life divine, And make Thy gracious fullness mine. — C h a r l e s W e s l e y . OCTOBER 31 E v e r y N eed S u p p l ie d “I shall not want” (Psa. 23:1). Amid all the sorrow and want of the world, the Lord’s sheep are well supplied. The cry o f the worldling is contained in the weary confession, “ I perish with hunger.” But the boast of the saint rings through the glad assurance, “My God shall supply all
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