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The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds,- both great and small, Are close-knit strands of an unbroken thread, Where love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells; The book of life the shining record tells. — Selected. December 4— “Jacob was left alone; and there ‘wrestled a man with him until the breaking o f the day” (Gen. 32:24). W e are all having our Jabboks continu ally. W e are coming face to face with wrestlers in the darkness. W e go away from our wrestling, too, many a time, carrying the marks of wounding; and yet in the experience we have gotten blessing. That touch on the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was the touch that withered the old boasted strength. You say Jacob was vic torious. Yes; but when? Not while he wrestled, but after his thigh was out of joint and he could wrestle no more. He wound his sinewy arms about the neck of his antagonist, and clung, saying: “I will not let thee go except thou bless me.” That was the way he prevailed—not in the old way o f cunning, but by having the old man crippled and defeated, and then by the new way of trusting and clinging. —Selected. — o—■ December 5— “ God called unto him . . . and he said, Here am I” (Ex. 3 :4 ). Many of us give no answer when God speaks; it is as if we are in a fog. Moses’ reply revealed that he was in some definite place. Readiness involves a right relation ship to God and a knowledge of where we are at present. W e are so busy telling God where we would like to go. It is the man or woman who is ready for God and His work who carries off the prize when the summons comes. W e wait, with the idea of meeting some great opportunity, some thing that is sensational; and when it comes we are quick to cry: “Here am I.” Readiness means that we are prepared to do either the tiniest thing or the great big thing; it makes no difference. W e have no choice as to what we want to do ; what ever God’s program may be, we are ready for it. When any duty presents itself, we hear God’s voice, as our Lord heard His Father’s voice, and we are ready to obey it with all the alertness of our love for Him. Be ready for the surprise visits of God. The burning bush is a symbol of every thing that surrounds the ready soul; it is ablaze with the presence of God. — Selected , —■o— December 6 — “ They gathered it [manna] every morning” (Ex. 16:21). The one thing which is very hard for me to do is to live no more than one day at a time. Why not trust God for all that is to come? No one was to gather two days’ manna, for to have done so would have shown that there was no real trust in God’s love and God’s care. If a thief stole manna for more than one day, he did not gain anything by it, because what was more than enough spoiled and was lost before the next day came. Thank God for that. If God did not keep the reins in His own hands, we should drive swiftly to
WKen the Christian comes to a closer fellowship and walk with Christ, and is in the continual possession of the Holy Spirit, his conscience is then specially in the hand of that blessed Spirit, and one of the special blessings conferred on it is the gift of hearing the voice of God. — Dr. Elder Cumming. — o— December 1— “Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher’s coat unto him . . . and did cast himself into the sea” (John 2 1 :7). Have I ever had a crisis when I have deliberately, and emphatically, and reck lessly abandoned everything? It is a crisis of will. I may come up to it many times externally, and find it amounts to nothing. The real, deep crisis of abandoning is reached internally, not externally. The giving up of external things may be an in dication of being in total bondage. Have you deliberately committed your will to Jesus Christ? It is a willful trans action, not an emotional one; the emotion is simply the gilt-edge of the transaction. If you allow emotion to be first, you will never make the transaction. If you have heard His voice on the billows, let your convictions and your consistency go to the winds, and maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ— My Utmost for His High est. — o— December 2— “He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people” (Rev. 21:3). Heaven is a place of communion with all the people of God. I am sure that in heaven they know each other. I could not perhaps just now prove it in so many words, but I feel that a heaven of people who did not know each other could not be heaven; because God has so constituted the human heart that it loves society, and especially the renewed heart cannot help communing with all the people of God. W e shall talk most of all of Him who, by His faithful love and His potent arm, has brought us safely through. W e shall not sing solos, but in chorus shall we praise our King.— C. H. Spurgeon. — o— December 3— “All the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands” (Ex. 35:25). It didn’t spoil their hands a bit either 1 Some dainty women “toil not, neither do they spin.” They keep their hands soft and white. They think any kind of work would mar the delicate beauty of their fingers. But they make a great mistake. The hands that are beautiful in heaven’s sight are not the dainty ones that are never roughened or hardened by toil. Anything is beautiful just in the measure in which it fulfills the mission for which it was made. Hands were made to work; and an idle, useless hand, no matter how delicate and fair, is not a lovely hand. Beautiful hands are those that do Work that is earnest, and brave, and true, Moment by moment, the long day through. These ancient women had learned to spin; and now they spun for God. Here we see how everyday gifts and occupations may be turned into God’s service.
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