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July, 1941
DA ILY Devotional Readings
Thou hast called us into the fellowship of saints made perfect in trial. —John Marvin Rast. 8. Waiting upon His Will “Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God” (Psa. 143:10). Lord Jesus, we are waiting Upon Thy gracious will; Our hearts, once wildly beating, . Are restful now, and still. Into Thy mighty fullness, Filled, Saviour, we would be; Knowing the secret power Of drawing all from Thee. Thus daily, hourly trusting, Thy love the binding cord; We work, as we are waiting, For Thee, our absent Lord. . Knowing the Bible “Thy word.have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee” (Psa. 119:11), ' ' . . Quite often in our daily life tempta tion emerges suddenly, and we have no .time to avoid it, or to take our Bibles— even if we are those who carry a Bible *—and begin hunting up some helpful passage. It is the Word stored which is the Word of value, which can cleanse our lives; and the Lord Jesus cleanses His church by the washing of water by the Word of God. —J. Russell Howden. 10.- Our Wills “To will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not” (Rom. 7:18). How is it God makes a regenerate man utter such a confession, with a right will, with a heart that longs to . . . do its very utmost to love God? Look at it. What has God given us our will for? . . . The will of the creature is nothing but an empty vessel in which the power of God is to be made mani fest. He must seek in God all that he is to be.—Andrew Murray. 11. Conquered Death “Through death he might-, . . deliver them, who through fear of death were . . . subject to bondage” (Heb. 2:14, 15). Rejoice, then, O saint, in your rescue from the terrible captain and his stand ard-bearer. On Calvary Christ triumphed over death by becoming the Victim of death. That eternal terror that was once before you, He by His cross has put forever behind you. It cannot cast one threatening shadow across your path way now. It cannot wring one pang of foreboding agony from your soul. “Death stung itself to death when it stung Christ.”—A. D. Gordon, —S. Trevor Francis. 9.
1. Just a Quiet Hour “ Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee” (Psa. 37:34). One quiet hour I would retrieve. My soul bespeaks One quiet hour to think and pray, Between the turmoil of the day - And the far voyage across the deep Of sleep. The day’s best joy.again to face, Its finest thrill again to live; Or its slight hurts to now forgive, And of barbed words, too swiftly sent, Repent. 2. Spiritual Pain “He that despised Moses’ lav died without mercy under two or three wit nesses: Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy,' who hath . . . done despite unto the Spirit of grace?” (Heb. 10:28, 29). The .thought is that there is no pen alty so great as the punishment inflicted by the Spirit. There is no spiritual pain like the sense of having done wrong. Not by accident is it written that the" first punishment was not physical. Why is no .man suffered to kill Cain? It is to teach the world at the beginning that the penalties of the Spirit are in God’s sight heavier than the penalties of the law.—George Matheson. 8. The Unseen Companion “When he [the Comforter] is come, he will reprove the world of sin, . , . because they believe not on me” (John 16: 8, 9). Let us never forget that, as soon as we begin to speak to a sinner, a Third Party draws near, and He does not make a crowd, either. This Third Party is invisible, but m a k e s Himself heard, and He so illumines our feeble words Build up the breaks the day has wrought; , Tomorrow’s work prepare With prayer, —Frederick R. Crook.
as ,to make them mighty to the pulling down of the strongholds of sin. —H. W. Pope. 4. Mutual Abiding “ Abide in me, and I in you” (John 15:4): Communion with Christ is a certain cure for every ill. Whether it be the wormwood of woe, or the cloying sur feit of earthly delight, close fellowship with the Lord Jesus will take bitter- ness from the one and satiety from the other. Live near to Christ, Christian, and it is matter or secondary impor tance whether thou livest on the moun tain of honor or in the valley of humili ation.—Charles Haddon Spurgeon. A Word Study "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten” (Rev. 3:19). . “Chasten” is related to “chastise,” but the later Christian meaning of the word is “child-train,” to train a child—not primarily by means of the rod in thè form Of punishment, but more especially with a view to training, .changing, and molding character. The real object of “chastening” is therefore to make spirit ually chaste, to purify the mind arid the heart. It is not a proof of God’s anger, but of His love.—C. J. S. 8. Filled to Overflow “Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over” (Psa. 23:5). If our hearts are empty, it is vain for us to talk to others of a religion of which we have only a faint memory or an indefinite hope . . . If our souls are not filled with living water, it is not going to flow out. You get no stream flowing out till you have a fullness within; and unless you are filled with the fullness of God, there will be little overflow to bless others. . —H. L. Hastings. Stayed on God “Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his serv ant, 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).. I am thinking of a friend. I do not know what valleys of shadow he must needs traverse, but I know how .he will walk. I know every step will be coura geous, because he trusts in the name of the Lord, because he is stayed upon his God. Heavenly Father, Thou hast not called us again to fear or falter. 5. 7.
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