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mightier than that of the waters—the blood of Jesus Christ. And He saves me, that in this Christ, I, like Noah, may do according unto all that Jehovah com mands me. Let me trust this heavenly father today, and Christ, His Son my Saviour, to blot out my sin and to keep me from sinning this day. That is what Christ will do for me if my faith in Him is only daring enough.— Messages for the Morning Watch. — o— October 20— “ The land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel” (Josh. 1:2), God here speaks of the immediate pres ent. It is not something that He is going to do, but something He does do this moment. So faith ever speaks. So God ever gives. So He is meeting you today, in the present moment. This is the test of faith. So long as you are waiting for a thing, hoping for it, and looking for it, you are not believing. It may be hope, it may be earnest desire; but it is not faith, for “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” The command in regard to believing prayer is the present tense: “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” Have we come to that moment? Have we met God in His everlasting NOW?. — Joshua, by Simpson. —o— October 21— “Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you-, but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers o f Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be-revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy” (1 Pet. 4:12, 13). There is an object in our .suffering. Though it may seem to spring causeless from the ground, yet it is carefully de signed by the skill o f the great Artificer. There may have been many a previous secret prayer for growth in grace and use fulness ; and the answer has come in the use o f fire, file, and hammer. Though the missile may be hurled by malice and ill will, yet if it is permitted to pass through the environing presence of God, it be comes His appointment for the refining and maturing of the sufferer’s character. In this sense His permissions become His appointments. We cannot become new, sharp, threshing instruments without fire; and therefore it is not strange when we are plied to the uttermost. We are com pensated for such suffering by the pres ence of the Spirit of glory. When such suffering lies heavily on the soul, God sees to it that it is no loser. What is lost from without is replenished from within. Let us brace ourselves, then, to suffer whatever may befall, to “count it all joy,” and take it as the theme for a psalm, as the signal for a fresh outburst of “Glory to God in the highest!”— Selected. —o— October 22— “ Wherefore look ye so sadly today” (Gen. 40:7)? Pay as little attention to discourage ments as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth, rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.— Maltbie Babcock.
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