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June 1930 fell forests. Even if the tribes had real ized what treasures lay above them, they would hardly have dared to suppose it ' possible to rid the hills of their dense forest-growth. But as God indicated their task, He reminded them that they had power enough. The visions of things that seem impossible are presented to us, like these forest-covered steeps, not to mock us, but to incite us to spiritual ex ploits which would be impossible unless God had stored within us the great strength of His own indwelling. Difficulty is sent to reveal to us what God can do in answer to the faith that prays and works. Are you straitened in the valleys? Get away to the hills, live there; get honey out of the rock, and wealth out of the terraced slopes now hidden by forest — F. B. M. —o— June 13— “Who is among you that fear- eth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God” (Isa. 50:10). This is trusting God in the dark. Some times we have ari experience in life that seems like walking through a long dark tunnel. . . . When we reach heaven we may discover that the richest and deepest and most profitable experiences that we had in this world were those gained in the very roads from which we shrank back with dread. Let us be assured of this, that, if the lesson and the rod are of His appointing, and His allwise love has en gineered the deep tunnels of trial on the heavenward road, He will never desert us during the discipline. God owns you and me, and He has a right to do with us what He pleases. He will not lay on one stroke of cruelty, or a single one that He cannot give us grace to bear. Tighten your loins with the promises, and keep the strong staff of f^ijth well in hand. Trust God in the dark. We are safer with Him in the dark than without Him in the sun shine. He will not suffer your foot to stumble. His rod and staff will never break. Why He brought us here we know not now, but we shall know hereafter. At the end of the gloomy passage beams the heavenly light; then comes the exceed ing and eternal weight of glory. —Theodore Cuyler. June 14— “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should afterward receive for an in heritance, obeyed” (Heb. 11:8). It is by no means enough to set out cheerfully with your God on any adven ture of faith. Tear into smallest pieces any itinerary for the journey which your imagination may have drawn up, A true walk with God will do more to awaken awe, wonder and amazement in your soul, than a century '‘of travel through the sights of earth. Your Guide will keep to no beaten path. He may lead you by a way such as you never dreamed your eyes would look upon. The clinging hand of His child makes a desperate situation a delight to Him. It is your business to learn to be peaceful and safe in God in every situation. “The thing I ask when God doth bid me pray, Begins in that same act to come my . way.” —Streams in the Desert.
June 16— “And Jehovah was with Jo seph. . . . Jehovah blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. . . . And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand” (Genesis 39:1-6). That is the sort of reward God offers me if I will serve Him to the limit. And people talk about how much they have to “give up” by going in for the Christian life. The trouble with so many is that they have not the “nerve”—the Bible calls it “faith”—to surrender themselves abso lutely to God’s w ill; and so they lose, both the best things He would give them and the things of the world which still look good to them because of their half-way surrender. Complete service of God means the three, things that Joseph had: God Himself with us, all His resources ours; other people supernaturally blessed
June 15— “I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight" (Isa. 42:16). Often in the experience of the Chris tian there are times of perplexity as to which way, to take. To go on would be presumptuous; to go to the right hand or to the left would be inconsistent; and to go back would be retrograde and spiritual apostasy. The flesh must be doing, but “as many as are led by the Spirit” know when to go on and when to wait. The leading of the Spirit is assured to those who. obey, and to those who ac knowledge God in all their ways, Be lieving prayer* and a single eye for the doing of the will of God almost always make it impossible to be misled. — Rev. Archibald Macfadyen.
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