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All Things are Become Net r “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away” (2 Cor. 5:17). I have seen in the autumn, when the trees have shed their leaves, that two or three leaves have stuck fast on the branches, and have clung to them all the winter through. Storms have beaten them, frosts have bitten them, snow and rain have blackened them, yet they have held fast to the tree. But when the spring has come, and the sap has begun to ascend and push its way through every branch and every twig, the leaves have disap peared—pushed off by the rising tide of new life. So it is with us. Those old habits belong to the old nature . . . when the Spirit of the Lord fills us, these habits disappear. —A. J. Gordon. + + + Lovest Thou Me? For where two or three are gath ered together in my name, there am I . . .” (Matt. 18:20). God is pleased to see qien gather in prayer and so meets with them. If we truly love the Lord, we will try to please Him. He has promised ¿hat He will be present where as small a number as two or three gather in prayer. Sad to say, men and women are not deeply in love with the Lord, and it is too often true that men are “lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.” — Jacob Unruh. + + + Witnessing at Home “He first findeth his own brother Simon” (John 1:41). Let thy religion begin at home, have a care to put forth the sweetest fruit of spiritual life and testimony in thine own family. You may be very defi cient in talent yourself, and yet you may be the means of drawing to Christ one who s h a l l become eminent in grace and service. Ah, dear friend, you little know the possibilities which are in you. You may but speak a word to a cfyild, and in that child t h e r e may be slumbering a noble heart w h i c h shall stir.the Christian Church in years to come. Andrew' had only two talents, but he found Peter! Go thou and do likewise. —Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
It Was for Me “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). For me, He died a thousand deaths On Calvary’s anguished cross; His soûl, with panting, gasping breaths, Bore all my shame and loss. The sun in darkness veiled his face Before God’s Son thus slain. Such matchless love! Such boundless grace! Can He have died in vain? With Him I’ll bear the cruel cross And glory in its shame, All earthly gain I’ll count but dross To magnify His Name. —John F. Herget. + + + Watch and Pray “Watch ye therefore, and pray al ways, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand, be fore the Son of man” (Luke 21:36). This is the only way in which we can be prepared for the coming of the Lord when He appears. The coming again of Jesus Christ is a subject that is awakening- much interest, and much discussion these days. It is one thing to talk about it, and yet quite another thing to be prepared for it. The man who spends little time in prayer; the man who is not constant in prayer, and steadfast, will not be ready when He comes. But we must be ready. How? Pray! Pray! Pray! —R. A. Torrey. + + + He Made it Again “Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand” (Jer. 18:6). We can hear God’s Word in some places better than in others. The pot ter’s house was God’s place for Jere miah to learn the lesson indicated. The place of disappointment is often the place to hear the word of the Lord. We all profit more from sorrow than from joy. Our Father can turn failures into victories. —The Sunday School Times.
God Has Spoken “If thou canst believe, all things are possible” (Mark 9:23). Faith rests on what God has said. God has spoken: “No good thing will He withhold from them that walk up rightly” (Psa. 84:11). If the thing we ask of God is for our good, and for His glory, we may rest assured He will not fail to answer. Men have prayed, in faith, for fifty years, and suddenly God has answered! God works for them that wait for Him (to. work)! “And if we know that He hear us,, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him” (1 John 5:15). — Anonymous. + + + The Danger o f Disobedience “If . , . the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that dark ness!” (Matt. 6:23). The danger of disobedience is that it may lead to apostasy. To know the way and refuse to walk in it is a sure way of getting into darkness. One may become so blinded because of a refusal to walk in the light as to actually deny that Jesus is the Christ. Such a one is an apostate. As long as such continue to set aside the Lord Jesus, there is no possible hope of their being saved, for they are refus ing to acknowledge the only means of salvation. — Gospel Banner. + + + Divine Pardon “Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his an ger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy” (Micah 7:18). How pan He pass sin by? He par dons it in the appointed way, by the hyssop dipped in the blood. Then I think He also means to declare that besides “ pardoning,” He “passes it by.” He never speaks of it again. He will pardon all the past, and never cast it up to you again. — Andrew Bonqr.
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