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until he has mastered them, and is so much at home among them that none can throw him off his guard! The Christian must be a scribe instructed unto the kingdom of God. . . . We must seek, by the grace of God, to make it a habit, an instinct, a sec- .ond nature of our souls, to refer constantly to the will o f Christ.— G eorge B o w e n . AUGUST 26 , Where Are the Nine? “I beseech you . . . by the mercies of. God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service” (Rom. 12:1). There were ten men of Galilee Christ healed of an infirmity— There were ten men Christ paused to bless, And one came back, in thankfulness; There was but one who came, and heard His kindly word: “Were not ten healed—ten that were mine? Where are the nine?” Lord, who art walking still with men, Christ, who hast healed me ten times ten, Thou who hast cleansed and made me free, Have I so soon forgotten Thee? Thou who hast made my leprous soul Completely whole, Help me to say, “Lord, here is Thine, One.of the nine.” — S a r a H e n d e r so n H a y . There are various ways in which we may come to know other people. Some times we become acquainted through a written word. What a beautiful letter of introduction we offer when we give a Bible to a fellow seeker or a fellow pilgrim! Often the gift of a Bible has led to a per sonal knowledge of Christ. But there are other ways o f introducing one individual to another. W e say, “Allow me to intro duce my friend.” That is the personal in troduction. Men and women are eager today for just such a personal presentation of Jesus Christ as John gave to the mem bers of his wilderness congregation: Be hold H im ; He taketh away the sin o f the world. What a privilege it is to introduce one’s fellows to the Friend o f sinners, the Companion o f saints! To whom have you introduced Christ today ?— S e lected . AUGUST 28 If in Doubt, Wait "Whatsoever is not of faith is sin” (Rom. 14:23). If a Christian is not quite sure about anything that he is doing or allowing in his own life, he is not to do or allow it, until AUGUST 27 Introductions “ The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1 :29).
AUGUST 22 The Builded Altar
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“And pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar” (Gen. 12:8). Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. . . . Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act o f worship. . . . Bethel is the symbol o f communion with G od ; A i [Hai] is the symbol of the world. Abraham pitched his tent between the two. The measure o f the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion that we have with Him. — O s w a l d C h a m b e r s . AUGUST 23 No Confidence in the Flesh “Have no confidence in the flesh” (Phil. 3:3). Here, unless we are open-eyed, we will go wrong. Having begun in the Spirit, we will seek to become perfect in the flesh. We shall give up things, whereas the call is to give up self. There will be many prac tices and habits which we shall put aside, but that will be the effect and not the cause of" our renunciation. Things foolish or harmful to myself or others, of course, must g o; but something else must go first. We are to “have no confidence in the flesh,” neither at the time o f our renewal nor ever afterwards, and the flesh means man in the totality o f his powers minus God, and in the long run, versus God. “ Have no confi dence in the flesh.”—W . Y. F u l l e r t o n . AUGUST 24 The Mission of Suffering “ The God of all comfort ■. . . comfort- eth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we our selves are comforted of God" (2 Cor. 1 :3, 4). Are we willing to endure testings, even sorrow, that we may, from the experiences o f our hearts, be able to comfort others in distress ? Sometimes our Lord allows af fliction to come to us that it may drive us closer to Him. Sometimes He can, in no other way, teach us to rest upon Him, to learn o f His great compassion, to “know him.” John Milton, in his blindness, wrote: “ O merciful One 1 When men are farthest, then Thou art most near; When men pass coldly by, my weakness shun, Thy chariot I hear. On bended knee I recognize Thy purpose clearly shown: My vision Thou hast dimmed that I might see Thyself—Thyself alone.” Let us, with the apostles of old, rejoice that we are “counted worthy to suffer . . . for his name.”—S. D. H o g u e . AUGUST 25 Keeping Christ's Commandments “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me . . . and I will love him, and will manifest my self to him” (John 14:21). “He that hath my commandments’— hath them in memory, in meditation, hath them conspicuously in his mind where he can find them without delay and trouble—is filled with the knowledge of his Master’s will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. The lawyer, he that would know the laws o f his state, with how much diligence does he apply himself to the study of those laws
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