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keep your memory bright before God. Un guarded strength is double weakness. “Kept by the power of God”— that is the only safety.— Selected. — o— November 28— “Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things” (Lk. 10:41). Martha had many strong points, but they are all clouded in pur memory of her by this one weakness—her worry. And what is the good of this care-worn, can tankerous, Martha spirit? What is thé need? It will be time enough for you to begin caring when God ceases to care. “I dare no more fret,” said John W es ley, “than curse or swear. To have per sons at my ears murmuring and fretting at everything is like tearing the flesh from my bones. By the grace of God 1 am discontented at nothing. I see God sitting on the throne and ruling all things well.” — o— November 29— “Study to be quiet” (1 Thess. 4:11). There is an inward quiet as well as an outward quiet that is necessary to the best work. I should not like the diagnosis or the prescription of a distracted doctor’s mind. He must come quietly to the exam ination of human disease. I should not like to be taught in a school by an irri tated teacher, hot and fussy. I want quiet instruction, if it is to be good and permanent. I am not quite sure' that fuss or flurry or despondency in an artist’s life would paint for us the best pictures'; and I cannot imagine that a Christian life all full of jar and disturbance can make the best impression. It was said of Thomas Chalmers that he was always bustling, striving, organizing, speaking, preaching, with the dust and the fire of the world upon his clothes, but that he always car ried with him ah inner shrine of the Spirit. Hazlitt showed remarkable insight into the life of John Milton when he said that Milton went to his work with a hand made warm by the touch of the ark. If we went to our work morning by morn ing with hands made warm, sensitive, true, skilful, by one magic touch of the ark, all the workmanship of the day would be a better workmanship, and the dull at mosphere of our life would be far more penetrating and powerful. The great lack of our life and the great poverty of it is that we make inadequate provision for quietness. W e are often out in the open, but how seldom we are in the secret re treats with God. Study—make it your concern— to be quiet. — Selected. —o—— November 30— “ Other sheep I have . . . they shall hear my voice” (John 10:16). Christ’s call to work must be for every one an individual call. The question im plied at the outset of Christian work is this: Do we know what it is to have Christ speaking individually to us? If it be asked, How can we know when Christ is speaking to us individually? my answer is that it must always be exceedingly dif ficult to describe to another how a voice is to be recognized;
ing that the same words we have accepted in times past will have an ocean o f mean ing in them, which renders their first meaning to us very shallow. Into the deep ,of the atonement, until Christ’s precious blood is so illuminated by the Spirit that it becomes an omnipotent balm, and food and medicine for the soul and body. Into the deep of the Father’s will, until we ap prehend it in its infinite minuteness and goodness, and its far-sweeping provision and care for us. Into the deep of the. Holy Spirit, until He becomes a bright, dazzling, sweet, fathomless summer sea, in which we bathe and bask and breathe, and lose ourselves and our sorrows in the calmness and peace of His everlasting presence. Into the deep o f God’s provi dences, where we find the most marvelous answers to prayer, the most careful and tender guidance, the most thoughtful an ticipation of our needs, and the most ac curate and supernatural shaping of our events. Into the deep of God’s purposes and coming kingdom, until the Lord’s coming and His millennial reign are open ed up to u s; and beyond these the bright entrancing ages on ages unfold them selves, until the mental eye is dazed with light, and the heart flutters with inex pressible anticipation of its joy with Jesus and the glory to be revealed. Into all these things, Jesus bids us launch. He made us ana He made the deep, and to its fathom less depths He has fitted our longings and capabilities.— Soul Food. — o— November 26— “ Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28). Weary soul, so many years driven to and fro like the panting hart, oh, come and learn this day the lesson that there is a spot where safety and victory, where peace and rest, are always sure, and that that spot is always open to thee,— the heart of Jesus.— Andrew Murray. November 27— “For Joab had turned after Adonijah though he turned not af ter Absalom" (1 Ki. 2:28). Joab stood the big test; he remained absolutely true and loyal to David and did not turn after the fascinating and ambitious Absalom. But towards the end of his life he turned after the craven Adonijah. Always remain alert to the fact that where any man has gone back is exactly where we all may go back (1 Cor. 10:13). You have gone through the big crisis, now be alert over the least things; take into calculation the “retired sphere of the leasts.” W e are apt to say, It is not in the least likely that I am going to turn now to the things of the world after I have been through the supreme crisis. Don’t fore cast where the temptation will come. It is the least likely thing that is the peril. In the aftermath of a great spiritual transaction the “retired sphere of the leasts” begins to tell. It is not dominant; it is one of the least things. But remem ber it is there, and if you are not warned it will trip you up. You have remained true to God under great and intense trials; now beware o f the undercurrent. Don’t be morbidly introspective, looking for ward with dread, but keep alert, that is, — o—
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