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grief. But God says you shall sing. Though the summer seems gone, there will be an Indian, a second, summer, even mellower than the first. In the days of Israel’s youth she sang glad songs on the banks of the Red Sea. Those notes still hover over those outspread waters and among those echoing hills. If God can do this for His people, cannot He do it for you? He will give you a fresh revelation o f His love; He will bind you to Himself with bonds you shall not wish to break ; He will reveal to you such aspects of His character as to attract you into the ten- derest fellowship and friendship; He will show you mercy with a new and more delicate flavor than ever before. And when all these things shall come to pass, that sad heart of yours that had abjured its song shall break out again into music, and with the Psalmist you will say: “He hath put a new song in my mouth.”— Selected. —o— March 13—“ David said, The Lord that delivered me . . . He will deliver me’’ (1 Sam. 17:37). We could not have hoped to be deliv ered aforetime by our own strength; yet the Lord delivered us. Will He not again save us? We are sure He will. As David ran to meet his foe, so will we. The Lord has been with us, He is with us, and He has said, “ I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” Why do we tremble? Think of the dead bear and lion. Who is this Philistine? True, he is neither bear nor lion; but then God is the same, and His honor is as much concerned in the one case as in the other. He did not save us from the beasts to let a giant kill us. Let us be of good courage.— C. H. Spur geon. What have I to dread, what have I to fear, Leaning on the everlasting Arms! —o— March 14— “His name, through faith in his name, hath made this man strong" (Acts 3 :16). If we miss anything of our birthright, it is because we undervalue it, like Esau. We don’t understand one-fiftieth part of God’s redemption plan and what wonder ful “things He hath reserved for those who love Him.” First o f all, we find nothing can be obtained but by the key of faith. Secondly, that key is only en trusted to God’s children, His faithful, obedient children. Thirdly, it is handed over to them to unlock the door, but the Holy Ghost only works and gives through the Name o f Jesus. That is God’s way now. And Jesus says, “If ye ask ANY THING in My name, I will do it for you.” “How many who have sent up their petitions are starved, quite starved, who are even living on the redeemed land, while the store wagons are coming past the doors each day with mercies new every morning!” God can work miracles today, and it is by miracles that many of us have “passed through” our Red Seas on to the dry ground of God’s protection. Let us say to every barrier of difficulty, trial, sickness, sorrow, toil, and suffering, “ Yea, God can.” Then we shall discover the truth of the promise, “Those that honour me, I will honour.”
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“I take Him for this mortal frame, I take my healing in His name, And all His risen life I claim, I take, He undertakes.”
March IS— “Strong in faith, giving glory to God" (Rom. 4:20). We notice that in those who had great faith it was mainly exercised for some thing they wanted—a need that must be met—but strong faith mostly refers to something that had to be- endured. It requires a stronger faith to suffer than to obtain. Unless a man has this undoubted, calm, settled trust in God, he is not one who can go through trials with unshaken faith and undisturbed peace. Abraham possessed it. He was one hundred years old, and his wife an old woman, when God promised him a son, and “he stag gered not at the promise through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God.” Strong faith always glorifies God, whatever the circumstances, whatever the hardship or trial. Thus we find Habak- kuk, the prophet. “Although," he says, there is no token of God’s hand, but everything against him—loss, poverty, destitution, and suffering—“yet I will re joice in the Lord, and joy in the God of my salvation.” Daniel is another instance, and also his three friends. They all went through suffering, and brought glory to God. "Weak faith,” says Mr. Meyer, “generally shows there is something wrong in the inner life. Examine your-, selves to see the cause. Are you yielding to temptation1? With every temptation is an increase of spiritual power, but every temptation yielded to cuts the sinews of your strength and shears off the seven locks o f your might. Have you fully yielded yourself to God? Often failure points to lack of consecration.” “Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to that alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries, ‘It shall be done.’ ” —o— March 16— “ Ye are complete in him” (Col. 2:10). It is life indeed to know God, and to enjoy the fulness which is ours in Christ. This fulness, or completeness, as in the Authorized Version, is not the goal, but the true starting-point of the Christian life.- Note carefully the words, “Ye ARE complete”—not “may be” or “will be,” but “ye are” at this very moment “com plete in him.” Let us not make this the stopping-point of our Christian experience, otherwise we will remain babes in Christ. There is a divine growth in grace, but not into
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