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in the Holy Spirit 1 He is at once the light and the might of God. All He is and loves and gives has in it equally the truth and the power of God. When He shows you God’s command, He always shows it you as a possible and a certain thing, a divine life and gift prepared for you, which He who shows is able to impart.— A n d r e w M u r r a y . SEPTEMBER 18 “ Come over into Macedonia and help us” (Acts 16:9). W e believe that God sent His Son from heaven, and that the Son gave His life for the world’s life upon the cross ; that He came not to judge, but to save the world; that God was in Him reconciling the world to Himself ; that He told His disciples to give the message of His life and o f His death and His blood to every creature ; that you and I are His disciples ; and that apart from His name there is “no name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Does not this belief carry with it the obligation to spread the knowledge of these facts around the world? Yet here we sit. Would Christ have allowed Simon Peter to go about with a misty sort of sym pathy for a world that was dying for a practical knowledge of Christ? N o; He said, “ Give ye them to eat.” The work of evangelizing this world, for every man, is a matter of personal, inalienable obligation. — R obert E. S peer . SEPTEMBER 19 “ They took up twelve baskets full of the fragments” (Mk. 6:43). The Christian Herald, London, tells the story of a teacher who was telling her class o f girls about the time when the Lord Jesus fed the multitude with five loaves and two fishes. Said she: “And of course you will understand, children, that it does not mean that Jesus actually fed all those thousands with a few loaves and fishes. That would have been impossible. It just means that He so fed the people with His teaching that they lost all sense of bodily hunger, and went home satisfied.” But an inquiring girl put this question, “ But, M iss--------- , what was it filled the twelve baskets o f fragments left over?” — S u n d a y S c h o o l T im e s . God means just what He says. It is much easier and immeasurably more blessed to take the Word of God just as it stands than to “climb up some other way” on the unsteady rungs of human reason. — S elected . SEPTEMBER 20 “I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid” (Psa. 32:5). He that hath light thoughts o f sin never had great thoughts o f God.— O w e n . By shoving and shaking, you may move the magnetic needle from its place, but to that it returns the moment it is left to itself. In like manner, believers may fall into sin and deviate from the line of duty; but no sooner have they leisure for reflec tion than they endeavor to mend their ways and resume a life of godliness. On the contrary, the wicked watch for oppor tunities of doing evil, and give themselves up to all the temptations o f the devil and the world.— G o t t h o ld . One may judge his relation to Christ by his sensitiveness to sin in his life. How does the needle point today in the compass o f your soul ?— S elected . SEPTEMBER 21 “Let the redeemed o f the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy" (Psa. 107:2). You get the vision of this fact, do you not? It supposes a case o f men and
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you cannot have fullness of peace and power. It is heaven’s peace that must be yours on earth, and it is heaven’s peace be cause He is perfect King up there. — H u be rt B rook e . SEPTEMBER '14 “ But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:19). The skeptic and the doubter have raised again the old question, “ Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?” And those who implicitly believe His Word and have laid hold upon His promises have demonstrated once more that He can. They have dared to trust Him when all human sources of help and hope have seemed to fail. God has heard and answered their cry o f faith, and has wonderfully provided, sometimes in wholly unexpected ways. “What a dull thing it must be,” writes a worker of the China Inland Mission, “to be a millionaire, and thus to miss the thrill that comes from seeing God step in and meet needs and emergencies!” — R obert H. G lover . SEPTEMBER 15 “ To this end Christ both died and rose and revived, that he might be Lord” (Rom. 14:9). This means “that he might be Lord” of our lives, Master of our entire existence. The “absolute monarchy” o f Jesus Christ is the one condition of genuine Christian living. W e have the same truth in Colos- sians 1 :18,'“He is the head . . . that in all things he might have the preeminence.” Consider also 1 Peter 4:11, “That God in all things may be glorified.” And note that St, Paul’s most frequent and fullest title for our Saviour is, “ the Lord Jesus Christ,” or, “Jesus Christ our Lord.” Let us there fore settle it once for all, and then realize it continuously, “ W e are the Lord’s." —W . H. G r if f it h T h o m a s . Fill Thou my life, O Lord, my God, In every part with praise, That my whole being may proclaim Thy being and Thy ways. — H o r a t iu s B o n a r . SEPTEMBER 16 “ Christ in you" (Col. 1 :27). You have Christ—but you cannot get on unless you have Him not only as the Christ whose death in the past is yours, but who is living in the present and ruling and reigning in you. Is it your experience that when you are weakest, then you are strong est, because then He is strongest in you? Defeated one, you may yet know that where you are weakest, there you will be strongest. It is so. It was so with Peter. He denied his Lord, and he .could not stand before a maid-servant; but Christ’s love was so strong, it was such unutterably tender love, that He put the man who so lately denied Him at the head of the Pen tecostal army. What a Lord to have to do with, who can turn your very defeats into victories!—-C. A. Fox. SEPTEMBER 17 “ The Spirit . . . will guide you into all truth” (John 16:13). Let us not deceive ourselves. We may delight in studying the Bible; we may ad mire and be charmed with the views we get of God’s truth ;_the thoughts suggested may make a deep impression, and yet the practical influence in making us holy or humble, loving, patient, ready either for service or suffering, be very small. With man, knowing and willing, knowing and doing, even willing and performing, are, for lack o f power, often at variance. Never
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