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“My Father in Christ, I come to Thee, and I ask that here and now Thou shouldst fill me with the Holy Ghost.” Ask, and go forth reckoning that He is your own. But before you ask like this, remember that these conditions have to be fulfilled, or you cannot ask. First, you must put Jesus upon the throne, and ask the Holy Ghost that you may glorify Him. Further, you must obey God, for He gives the fullness of the Spirit only to those who obey Him. More over, you must >seek from God the cleans ing o f heart and life by the Spirit, for it is only to the cleansed heart that God can give this most precious gift. And when you have fulfilled those conditions, you may go to God with perfect assurance. With the simplicity o f a little child, you may claim your share in the filling o f the Holy Ghost, and to ask is to receive. —F. B. M eyer . "Christ is all, and in all” (Col. 3:11). In the eternal counsel of God, in the re demption on the cross, as King on the throne in heaven and on earth— Christ is all. In the salvation o f sinners, in their justification and sanctification, in the up building of Christ’s body, in the care for individuals, even the most sinful— Christ is all. . . . Let me take it as my motto—to teach me to pray, to strengthen my faith, to give me the assurance of His love, and access to the Father, to make me strong for the work o f the day:. Christ is all. Yes, Christ, my Christ, is all I need. God be praised to all eternity: Christ, my Christ, is niy all in a ll!— God's Best Secrets. Thou, O Christ, art all I want; More than all in Thee I find; Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, Heal the sick, and lead the blind. Thou o f life the fountain art, Freely let me take o f Thee; Spring Thou up within my heart, Rise to all eternity. —C harles W esley . OCTOBER 8 Incomparable Love “He delivered me, because he delighted m me” (Psa. 18:19). “Wonder o f wonders I Can it be, That Jesus my Saviour delighteth in me?” We delight in those things that please our senses, or that satisfy our desires. A c cording to our natures are our delights. How, then, is. it possible that Jehovah- Jesus delights in me? What satisfaction can His holy nature find in me? I am a sinner, requiring constantly the cleansing o f the Saviour’s atoning blood. I am too often a rebel: How, then, can the Lord delight in me? Why should He, in mercy, deliver me from all my distresses? Ah, the deliverances are not- for my sake! They are not even mine because I cry to Him. They are the expression of His own indescribable love. They are the manifestation of His nature. He delivereth because He delighteth in me. Such love and tenderness are wholly be yond my understanding; but, bless God, they are not beyond my daily experience! —S elected . OCTOBER 7 Christ Is All “ Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it; Prone to leave the God I love.”
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OCTOBER 1 The Lord' Himself
though it means tramping a thorny path, with blood tracks all the way. The doubt ful thing that I have played with and won dered about, must be cut off, however wrong or right it may seem. . . . “Be ye holy” is God’s call. Say no longer that you cannot be holy. Say, rather, that in the power: o f His life, you can. May God help us to such an attitude. —G. C ampbell M organ . OCTOBER 4 “ If . . . How?” “How wilt thou do in the swelling of Iordan?" (Jer. 12:5). There are two figures in the passage, both intended to enforce the same lesson. “ If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? And if in the land o f peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling o f Jordan?” If we fail when we seek to reach an earthly standard, how shall we do when we have to attain to a heavenly one? If we cannot reach that ex cellence which is natural, how shall we attain unto that which is spiritual? The words are directed against all self-confi dence. The question o f our text is in tended to bring us to this point—that for all things, the small as well as the great, the natural as well as the spiritual, we need God Himself. Our sufficiency is in Him.—S elected . OCTOBER 5 Christ, the All-Sufficient One “His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlast ing Father, The Prince of Peace” (Isa. 9:6 ). What a matchless name, or character, our Son of David bears! When He is called “Wonderful, Counselor,” it signifies that He knows', He has full and complete wisdom for our ignorant and often baffied spirits. “Mighty God” means He can, that there are no limitations to the sweep of His power. “ Everlasting Father” says in sweetest tones that He cares; He is touched with the feeling o f ’our-infirmities. “ Prince o f Peace” tells o f ultimate com posure. It speaks of the ordering and levelling o f all life. He knows, He can, He cares, He will. I will trust and follow such a Master. — S amuel ' M c P heeters G lasgow . His name shall be the Prince of Peace, For evermore adored, The Wonderful, the Counselor, The great and mighty Lord. —J ohn M orrison , i OCTOBER 6 When Asking Means Receiving “ What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall harve them” (Mk. 11:24). It seems to me that we have but to ask, not to spend the whole night in prayer, not to plead with God as if He were unwilling to bestow, but to go quietly to God, and open the whole nature to Him, and say,
“ The Lord himself shall descend . . . and we shall meet the Lord in the air" (1 Thess. 4:16, 17). It is not for a sign we are watching— For wonders above and below, The pouring of vials of judgment, The sounding o f trumpets o f woe; It is not’ for a day we are looking, Not even the time yet to be When the earth shall be filled with God’s glory As the waters cover the sea; It is not for a King we are longing To make world-kingdoms His own ; It is not for a Judge who shall summon The nations o f earth to His throne. Not for these, though we know they are com ing; For they are but adjuncts o f Him Before whom all glory is clouded, Beside whom all splendor grows dim. W e wait for the Lord, our Beloved, Our Comforter, Master, and Friend, The substance o f all that we hope for, Beginning o f faith and its end; We watch for our Saviour and Bride groom, Who loved us and made us His ow n ; For Him we are looking and longing: For Jesus, and Jesus alone. —A nnie J ohnson F lint . “I f we confess our sins, he is faithful and fust to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). Some one has said, “ Unconfessed sin in the soul is like a bullet in the body.” If you haven’t power, it may be there is some sin that needs to be confessed, something in your life that needs to be straightened out. No amount of psalm-singing, no amount of attending religious gatherings, no amount o f praying, no amount o f read ing your Bible, is going to cover up any thing of that kind. If I have too much pride to confess my sins, I need not expect mercy from God, or answers to my prayers. “He that covereth his sins shall not pros per.” . . . You cannot bury your sins so deep that there will not be a resurrection by and by, if they have not been blotted out by the Son o f God.—D. L. M oody . “Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God" (1 John 3:21). “ He that doubteth is condemned.” Then the man o f faith must do nothing upon the basis o f doubt. . . . I f the life o f God is to be maintained in the soul, there must be renunciation; the wrong thing must be put out of the life at all costs. The neg lect o f right must be remedied. I must do the thing I know I ought to do, even OCTOBER 2 The Root of the Matter OCTOBER 3 The Relation of Faith to Holiness
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