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SEPTEMBER 11 No Calamity at All
wept.” Remember that the One we know in glory is the very same Jesus that wept at the graveside of Lazarus. He is “not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling o f our infirmities.” He is, moved to sympathy, not by the mere knowledge of our infirmities, but by the feeling o f them. He who manifested His sympathy by tears in the days of old has still His way of expressing it to His loved ones. How much one can express by the pres sure o f the hand! If His hand has been pressing you, take it as the pressure of His loving sympathy, His sympathy with you.—-H. P. B arker . SEPTEMBER 8 Victory Needed in the Valley "For ye have need o f patience” (Heb. 10:36). It is easy to want to be always on the mount. But when we come down to the devil-possessed valley, we get annoyed or exhausted; we cannot go on with God there. We have perfect faith in God as long as He keeps us on the mount, but not the slightest atom of faith when He takes us into the valley. We have to be careful that the things which are really imperti nent actualities do not find us either ig noring them or abandoning our faith in God. We have to go through the trial of our faith in these particulars, because it is the trial of our faith that makes us wealthy toward God.— O swald C hambers . SEPTEMBER 9 Ashamed of Jesus ■“ Be not thou therefore ashamed o f the testimony of our Lord" (2 Tim. 1 :8). Two friends were in a public dining room. At a near-by table sat a gentleman with his wife and two children. One friend said to the other, “I shouldn’t like to hear that minister preach.” “How do you know he is a clergyman?” countered his companion. “His garb, his books, and the remark I overheard about the morning sermon—all these things tell their own story. But his preaching would never move me.” “Why not?” “It’s professional—put on like a robe. How do I know ? Why, in this place, where he thinks nobody knows him, did he pray, did his children pray? No, they did not. I’ve watched. He may preach well from the pulpit, but he gives me the impression today o f being ashamed of his Lord.” — S elected . SEPTEMBER 10 Christlessness “ Without me ye can do nothing’ (John 15:5). Whatever troubles you in the way o f im potence, or joylessness, or lack of rest, or lack of concentration, or lack of com munion, it means this, that the Lord Jesus Christ is not occupying the place He wants to occupy in the center of your inner be ing, or in the circumference o f your outer walk and witness. The trouble is Christ lessness. . . . It is the Holy Spirit who re veals Christ to us, who imparts Christ to us. And when you drink o f “the water of life,” when you are refreshed by the Holy Spirit, then in the vital matter o f your attitude toward Jesus Christ a change takes place, and by the Holy Spirit Jesus Christ is enthroned at the center o f your being. — F. S. W ebster .
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“Rejoice evermore” (1 Thess., 5:16). “ Oh, General, what a calamity!” ex claimed his chaplain to General Stonewall Jackson, when the general lost his left arm in battle. Thanking him for his sympathy, Jackson replied: “You see me wounded, but not depress ed, not unhappy. I believe it has been ac cording to God’s holy will, and I acquiesce entirely in it. You may think it strange, but you never saw me more perfectly con tented than I am today, for I am sure my heavenly Father designs this affliction for my good. . . . Why should I not rather re joice in it as a blessing and not look on it as a calamity at all? If it were in my power to replace my arm, I would not dare to do it unless I could know it was the will of my heavenly Father.’!S —The Dawn. "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne o f grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time o f need” (Heb. 4:16). Lord teach us how to pray! With prayer to bind the foe, With prayer to loosen captive souls For whom Thy blood did flow. Lord, teach us how to pray! With prayer to stand our ground, With prayer to weaken Satan’s hold SEPTEMBER 13 Equipped for More Than Flying “ Above it [the throne], stood the sera phim: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he cov ered his feet, and with twain he did fly” (Isa. '6:2). Note what is said o f the wings of each seraphim—two covered the face and two the feet, speaking o f reverence, adoration, worship. “And with twain he did fly.” The trouble with most of us is that we want to fly with all six wings! In our lives, ac tivity and worship are in improper propor tions. W e place more importance upon go ing and doing than we place upon submis sive waiting. Well may we learn from these heavenly creatures the lesson that it were better to spend two-thirds of our time and effort in consciously veiling self in the presence o f the Holy One than to spend that much time, or more, in hasten ing about from place to place, forgetful of our sacred hours to be spent before the Lord.— S elected . SEPTEMBER 14 A Matter of Relationship “I will receive you, And will be a Fa ther unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty” (2 Cor. 6:17, 18). I am a child of God; therefore God is my Father. He who created the worlds and whose love planned my salvation, whose power upholds all things, and whose SEPTEMBER 12 Prayer and Power Where’er his grasp is found. God wills not that His people By sin enthralled shall be, But that their lives, as ransomed, Be lives of victory; And so at our disposal He places all His power, That we from its resources May draw in danger’s hour. —Keswick Calendar.
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