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stricken deer, are living at the bottom o f the perilous place, just there will be the place ^ in which_ God will fulfill His promise. . . . “ Mine eyes”—that reminds me that God knows me. “ Shall be there” —that reminds me that God will abide with me.—J. B. F iggis . DECEMBER 22 Rest upon God’s Omniscience "The Lord knoweth them that are his” (2 Tim. 2:19). Poor, humble, downcast child o f God, isn’t this comfort for you? “The Lord knoweth” you! . . . The government of Almighty God is pledged for your keeping. Oh, the eternal safety in Christ! “The Lord knoweth them that are his.” You are His, He knoweth you, saveth you, keepeth you. . . . “My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one.” Blessed double-knowing and two-handed keeping o f that great One, the Eternal Son! O believer, lie down in* the green pastures o f the covenant, and rest you. You are eter nally safe, safe as the Almighty can make you. “The Lord knoweth them that are his.”— J o h n R obertson . “Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips’’ (Psa. 141:3). There is a time to speak and a time to be silent. The tongue is one of those members which the pardoned and conse crated soul has to “yield” as an instru ment o f righteousness unto God (Rom. DECEMBER 23 On Sentry Duty
6:13). Much mischief is often done, not by evil speaking only, but by “ foolish” and unnecessary speech. “ Let thy words be few.” How often we forget to seek di vine guidance in the matter of our con versation! How often are we filled with shame—and even with remorse—because we have given the reins to our lips, and have uttered the unguarded w ord! We need to learn the prayer: “ Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth” ; or, as it may be translated: “ Place, O Lord, a sentry over my mouth.” — S elected . DECEMBER 24 Watching unto Prayer “Praying always . . . with all perse verance” (Eph. 6:18). Natural impulse, even the spiritual in stinct o f the regenerate, must be rein forced by vigilance and systematic dis cipline : “Watching thereunto”—watching against forgetfulness and sloth, watching against neglect, watching against formal ity and unreal prayers, watching for occa sions, watching for answers, watching for deepening power in prayer; so watching that wè successfully persevere. . . “ Storm and throne o f grace,” says John Wesley, “and persevere therein, and blessing will come.” Let us never forget Archbishop Trench’s familiar couplet: “When prayer delights thee least, then learn to say, Soul, now is greatest need that thou should’st pray.” Andrew Bonar says : “ I see that unless I keep up short prayer every day through out the whole day, at intervals, I lose the spirit of prayer.” Dr. Adoniram Judson says : “ I never prayed sincerely and ear
nestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the last I should have devised, it came.” —The Dawn. DECEMBER 25 Salvation for Saints and Sinners "Thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall have his people from their sins” (Matt. 1:21). The angel in announcing the birth of the Saviour declared that His name should be Jesus, seeing that He would save His people from their sins. One sometimes feels that the deep significance of such a gracious message is lost by giving it a too general application, although, of course, it is perfectly legitimate to do so. . . . Attention must be paid to the precise language o f this angelic utterance—“ He shall save his people from their sins.” Such a declaration implies that Jesus is a Saviour for saints as well as for sinners; that there is a gospel for the redeemed as well as the rebellious. . . . The word used is “sins” not “sin.” The Lord Jesus is the Saviour o f saints in that He seeks to save them from the fruit, as well as from the root of sin.— H erbert L ockyer . DECEMBER 26 What Manner of Man Is This? "Emmanuel . . . God with us” (Matt. 1:23). Jesus Christ was God and Man in two distinct natures and one person; His hu manity was true and proper, but through it we see continually gleams o f the God head. As the Apostle John says in the preface to his Gospel, “ The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we
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