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tions from self, humility sends them forth upon all around. Opening the mind first to the glorious God, it next opens it to His creatures, His children. Humility teaches the rich to compassionate the poor, and the powerful to condescend to the weak. It leads a man to regard kindness to others as a privilege to himself. It prompts a man to cede a great deal that he might justly claim, because his hap piness lies not in grasping everything, but in seeing others happy. —Scottish Christian Herald. “Many are the afflictions o f the right eous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all" (Psa. 34:19). Your Lord willeth you in all states o f life to say, “Thy will be done” ; and herein you shall have comfort, that He who seeth perfectly through all your evils, and knoweth the frame and constitution of your nature, and what is most healthful for your soul, holdeth every cup o f a f fliction to your head with His own gra cious hand. Never believe that your ten der-hearted Saviour, who knoweth your strength, will mix that cup- with one drachm weight o f poison. You know that the weightiest end o f the cross of Christ which is laid upon you lieth upon your strong Saviour ; for Isaiah saith, “In all their afflictions he was afflicted.” O bless ed Second, who suffereth with you! And glad may your soul be even to walk in the fiery furnace with One like unto the Son o f man, who is also the Son of God. — R utherford . DECEMBER 12 As Trees of Righteousness “And having done all, to stand ” (Eph. 6:13). For the deepening and confirming of holy principles within us, we need the se clusion o f the “secret place.” The trees DECEMBER 11 Comfort in Affliction
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in a forest grow tall but thin. They shoot up quickly through mutual support; but take away from any o f them the shelter o f its neighboring trees, and, at the first blast o f a hurricane, it will fall. It is not there, but on some bare hillside where it has long battled with every wind, that you must look for the tree that no storm can dislodge, that will outlast the shock o f a hundred winter gales. It can not be otherwise with ourselves. W e may be planted in the kingdom with a multitude, but only in secret, lonely, per sonal fellowship with God can we really grow into the strength o f “trees of right eousness” for Him.—G. H. K n igh t . “Enoch walked with God” (Gen. 5:22). There was the continual presence of God in that lifelong walk. He was never away* Did the consciousness o f that Presence leave Enoch, the whole day would be changed. Even as the mind rec ognizes the companion of our journey, without the need o f framing a definite thought about it, so would Enoch know, feel, be sure of, the presence of God— all the more, too, because a life so spent must be a lonely one, human companion ship failing us because it cannot go with Him. So the company o f God is solitude in the world, and when we walk with Him, others will not walk with us. But Enoch, though left much alone, was always in the presence of God. — J. E lder C u m m in g . DECEMBER 13 Always in the Presence of God DECEMBER 14 God Loves to Answer Prayer “ Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace o f God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:6, 7). The Lord restores my soul again When to His footstool I repair; Faith never looks for help in vain; God loves to answer prayer. I called on Him in my distress, When overwhelmed and in despair; He saved me by His righteousness— God always answers prayer. By whom His answers He will send I do not know, nor when, nor where, But this I know, my heavenly Friend, My God, does answer prayer. With perfect confidence in Him I cast on Jesus all my care; He dwells between the cherubim To hear and answer prayer. DECEMBER 15 “ Alpha” “ Commit thy way unto the Lord” (Psa. 37:5). “ Commit thy way unto the Lord.” “ Thy way” ! What is that? Any pure purpose, any worthy ambition, any duty, anything we have to do, any road we have to tread, all our outgoings! “ Commit thy way unto the Lord.” Commit it to Him, not merely when we are in the middle o f the way and stuck and lost in the mire. Let us commit our beginnings unto Him, before we have gone wrong; let us have His companionship from the very outset o f —F. W . P itt .
“ They awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?" (Mk. 4:38). Do we never, at least in our hearts, make the same complaint of our Lord? When we are in some sore trial, and He does not come to deliver us when we seem about to become engulfed in the waves of adversity, and no relief comes down from Him, do we never say, “Jesus does not care though I perish” ? When we pray long and with importunity for the lifting away of some heavy cross, or the lighten ing of some sore burden, and no answer comes, does the thought never arise in our minds that Jesus does not hear us, or that He does not come to us? But such com plaint is never just. . . . The disciples had some lessons to learn. One was, how help less they were in themselves in the world’s dangers. Another was that Christ alone could deliver them. They could not learn these lessons except in the storm with the Master asleep. So there are similar les sons that we never can learn until Christ withholds His help for a time. — J. R . M iller . “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride o f life, is not of the Father, hut is of the world" (1 John 2:16). It is the characteristic o f pride to shut the soul up within itself—of humility to open it. Pride concentrates its whole de sires and affections upon the one object of self-advancement and gratification. Pride, first setting itself against the Cre ator, next sets itself against the creatures. Pride acknowledges no love but self-love. . . . Humility, on the other hand, carries the soul away from self. The more hu mility, the more room there will be in the heart for others. Loosening the affec DECEMBER 10 Beware of Pride
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