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TH E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
September, 1941
DAILY Devotional Readings
kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever” (Dan. 2:44)' The object of this millennial reign of the Son of man' is the subjugation of everything to the authority of God, the heavenly Father, that His will may be done on earth, even as it is in heaven. Everything will then be ready for the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness, when there will be no more sorrow, neither crying, nor pain, for the former things will have passed away. —Thomas Newberry. 9. Recaptured Love “As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love” (John 15:9). Mr. Moody once said that he . . . had been going through the routine of duty without love or ardor of soul. He felt this must not be* allowed to con tinue, and withdrew himself to study all the evidences of love which he could discover in the Gospels of our Saviour’s history. At the end of three or four hours, he came back to his work again with a broken heart, as one who had obtained a new vision.—F. B. Meyer. 10. A “Man of God” “Thou, O man of God, . . . follow after righteousness, godliness, faith” (1 Tim. 6 : 11 ) . This is the last book in the Bible where the phrase, “man of God,” occurs; and we are rather surprised to see it applied to Timothy . . . In the Old Testament, it was used for the prophets. H e r e in the New Testament, it is actually given to a somewhat weak, nervous man. This is great encourage ment for us, for it s h o w s that the weakest of us can have that highest of all titles, “man of God.” —W. H. Griffith Thomas. 11. Why He Died “Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures” ' (1 Cor. 15:3). You are not going to explain the cross merely by saying that He [Christ] went there to show us that God loved us . . . It was our sin that took Him there . . . He died for us and put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself . . . He will put your sin and mine away if we will let Him. If you do riot let Him, He will still put away sin, and He will put you away with it.—W. Y. Fullerton. 12. Promise of Calvary “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel” (Gen. 3:15) That promise, dropped as a sun into man’s sunless firmament, was the center prospectively of all the constella tions which were to succeed each other in the darkness and illuminate the long way unbroken from Eden to Calvary—
your heart, and I will bring you through all the sorrowful business of failure and wreck. You will fail; but I will restore you. . . . You will lose your grip of Me, Peter, but I will never lose My grip of you. You will learn in your h'our of failure that there is a love that will not let you go.”—J. Stuart Holden. The Song of the Saved “Behold, God is my salvation” (Isa. 12 : 2 ). It was after the Lord saved Israel that they sang; and were they not en titled to sing? What is the burden of t h e i r song ? “I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hatlt he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salva tion” (Ex. 15:1, 2). It is all coupled with a Person, the P e r s o n of the Saviour.—W. T. P. Wolsion. Humility is perfect quietness of heart . . . It is never to be fretted, or vexed, or irritated, or sore, or disappointed. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to -me, to feel nothing done against me . . . It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door and kneel in secret before my Father and be at peace, as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble. —Andrew Murray. Multiplied Forgiving “Then came Peter to him, and said. Lord, how oft shall my brfither sin against me, and I forgive him ? till seven times?” (Matt. 18:21). When Peter asked the Lord this ques tion, . . . he must have been utterly astonished at the Lord’s reply that he was to forgive his brother aeventy times seven. When we have the love of Jesus so shed abroad in,our hearts that we are able to forgive four hundred and ninety times, we shall probably be so full o f love and mercy that we shall be ready, if necessary, to forgive four hun dred and ninety times, more. —Triumphs of Faith. 8. The Object of His Reign “In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: . . . it shall break in pieces and consume all these 5. 6. The Grace of Humility “God . . . giveth grace to the humble” (1 Pet. 5:5). 7.
1. Calling Upon God : “How . . . shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?” (Rom. 10:14). True prayer ia a sure evidence of spiritual quickening. The Holy Ghost has breathed spiritual life into the heart of the man who p r a y s ; for prayer is the breath of heavenly life. Will a man cry to God for mercy if he does not believe in Him? . . . Thus prayer of the true kind is a voucher for the existence of spiritual life in its consciousness of need in its turning toward God.—Charles Haddon Spurgeon. In Whom Is Our Trust? “Now unto him that is able to do ex ceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us” (Eph. 3:20). On the strength of our faith rests the limit of the possibilities of the an swers to our prayers. Every pleading at the throne brings down heavenly benediction upon the believing interces sor. God wants to give His children infinite blessing. The clouds above us are heavy with mercy, and we need to have a care that we do not hinder the divine blessing by our prayerlessness or limit it by our coldness and lack of faith.—Selected. Break Forth into Singing “Break forth into singing, . . . for the Lord hath comforted his people” (Isa. 49:13). Break forth into singing, my soul, Thy God ever careth for thee; His goodness and mercy endure, His grace it is boundless and free. . Secure in His care thou shalt be. Break forth into singing, my soul, Though dark be the clouds overhead, He never will fail nor forsake; Then doubt not the word He hath said. Oh, lift up thy.voice, In glad song rejoice, For all the way long He hath led. —F. Buckley. Words of Encouragement “I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art con verted, strengthen thy brethren” (Lk. 22:32). What did our Lord mean? Just this: “Peter, I know the deepest desire of 2. 3. Take courage and sing, Whate’er the days bring; 4.
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