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confirm the knees o f prayer. Often our faith grows tired, languid, and relaxed, and our prayers lose their force and ef fectiveness. The figure used here is a very striking one. The idea seems to be that we become discouraged and so timid that a little obstacle depresses and fright ens us, and we are tempted to walk around it, and not face it; to take the easier way. Perhaps it is some physical trouble that God is ready to heal, but the exertion is hard or it is easier to secure some human help or walk around it some other way. There are many ways o f walking around emergencies , instead of going straight through them. How often we come up against something that appalls us, and we want to evade the issue with the excuse, “I am not quite ready for that now.” Some sacrifice is to be made, some obed ience demanded, some Jericho to be taken, some soul that we have not the courage to claim and carry through, some prayer that is hanging fire, or perhaps some physical trouble that is half healed and we are walking around iti God says, “Lift up the hands that hang down.” March straight through the flood, and, lo, the waters will divide, the Red Sea will open, the Jordan will part, and the Lord will lead you through to victory. Don’t let yout feet “be turned out of the way,” but let'your body “be healed,” your faith strengthened. Go' right ahead and leave no Jericho be hind you unconquered, and no place where Satan can say that he was too much for you. This is a profitable lesson and an intensely practical one.— Selected. o— September 22— "In everything . . . . let your requests be made known unto God’’ (Phil. 4:6). Nothing is too great to be handled in prayer, or to be sought in prayer. Nothing is too small to be weighed in the secret councils of the closet, and nothing is too little for its final arbitrament. As care comes from every source, so prayer goes to every source.— E. M. Bounds. “The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all gen erations” (Psa. 33:11). We must be pre pared to wait God’s time. God has His set times. It is not for us to know them; indeed, we cannot know them; we must wait for them. If God had told Abraham in Haran that he must wait for thirty years until he pressed the promised child to his bosom, his heart would have failed him. So, in gracious love, the length o f the weary years was hidden and only as they Were nearly spent, and there were only a few more months to wait, did God tell him that “according to the time of life, . . . Sarah shall have a son” (Gen. 18:14). The set time came at last; and then the laughter that filled the patriarch’s home made the aged pair forget the long and weary vigil. Take heart, waiting one, thou waitest for One who cannot disap point thee; and who will not be five min utes behind the appointed moment: ere long “your sorrow snail be turned into joy.” Then sorrow and crying shall flee September 23— "Sarah . . . bare Abra ham a son in his old age, at the set time o f which God had spoken to him’’ (Gen. 21 : 2 ).
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September 24— "Walking in the-midst of the fire’’ (Dan. 3 :25). The fire did not arrest their motion: they walked in the midst of it. It was one of the streets through which they moved to their destiny. The comfort o f Christ’s revelation is not that it teaches emancipa tion from sorrow, but emancipation through sorrow. O my God, teach me, when the shadows have gathered, that I am only in a tunnel. It is enough for me to know that it will be all right some day. They tell me that I shall stand upon the peaks of Olivet, the heights of resurrec tion glory. But I want more, O my Fa ther ; I want Calvary to lead up to it. I want to know that the shadows o f this world are the shades of an avenue—the avenue to the house o f my Father. Tell me I am only forced to climb because Thy house is on the hill! I shall receive no hurt from sorrow if I shall walk in the midst o f the fire.— George Matheson. September 25— "I do always those things that please him” (John 8:29). "He had this testimony, that he pleased God’’ (Heb. 11:5). Take my will, and make it Thine; It shall be Thy royal throne. Take my heart—it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne. — Havergal. The controlling purpose of the. Chris tian life is to please Jesus.. There is no sentence that has a keener edge than that —the purpose which controls my life, my action in every matter, is to please Him. Anybody who tries to please God is sure of divine guidance. He will get many deep experiences of human helplessness, and a Redeemer’s strength; but when God teaches, we need not dread the lessons. When we drop into God’s hands, let us expect brightness and blessing. Conse cration exposes us to the divine mercy, not to the divine wrath. — Selected. —o— September 26— “He giveth quietness” (Job 34:29). Quietness amid the dash of the storm! We sail the lake with Him still; and as we reach its middle waters, far from land, under midnight skies, suddenly a great storm sweeps down. Earth and hell seem arrayed against us, and each billow threat ens to overwhelm. Then He arises from His sleep, and rebukes the winds and the waves. His hand waves benediction and repose over the rage of the tempestuous elements. His voice' is heard above the scream of the wind in the cordage, and the conflict o f the billows, “ Peace, be still!” Can you not hear it ? And there is instant ly a great calm. Quietness amid the loss of inward consolations! He sometimes with draws these, because we make too much of them. We are tempted to look at our joy, our ecstasies, our transports, or our visions, with too great complacency. Then love for love’s sake, withdraws them. But, by His grace, He leads us to distinguish between them and Himself. He draws nigh, and whispers the assurance o f His
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