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12. Reckoning onGod's Power “Being fully, persuaded, that what he had promised/ he was able also to perform” (Rom. 4:21): • A ll 'God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them. The man: who holds God’s faith will dare to obey Him, however impolitic^ it may appear. Abraham held God’s faith, and offered up Isaac, accounting that God was able to raise him up.—J. Hudson Taylor. 13. In the Garden of God “For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven’’- (Col. 1;5). l i a s i Our pilgrim life is a remarkable mixture of palms and willows; of joy and pleasure^ success and pros perity; and of darkness and disap pointment, of lpss and failure. . . We walk through life with a palm in one hand and a willow in the other.- , j But, praise God, our faces are toward the'sunrise, even to the garden of God," where they grow nothing but palm trees.-—Herbert Lockyer. My Prayer “And they returned and inquired early after God. And they remem bered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer” (Psa. 78:35). : ' . Should worldly pleasures so attract, The vision of my soul to dim, Lord, lead me back to. Calvary, That I’ll again remember Him. Should I my love for'souls thus lose,. T h y . claims, Thy cause, Thy all neglect, And other friends and interests choose, May I not then Thy cross forget. Should I grow bitter, yes, and hard,1 My friends be few and life be pain, Remind me of Thy broken heart, Thy look, Thy coming soon again. —T. J. Bach. Make Me Thy Beacon ! “They grope in the dark without light” . (Job 12:25). . In the monotony of the night I lay watching.the beacon’s beam-sweeping the sky at rhythmic intervals. What ’a brilliant path it sliced through the pitch blackness of earth’s ■night! - Suddenly I prayed, “Oh God, make me a beacon! In this world’s black out:, when light shows brighter than ever, make me Thy beacon! Prevail upon me to keep my lamp clean, that Its brightness may never be dimmed By sin-smudges. I want Thy light to shine through me!”—Phil Armstrong. 16. Read Believingly “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold' wondrous things out of thy law” (Psa. 119:18).. . , . ____ 14. 15.
It is a great pity that in these days the Bible should be so much neg lected. . .. Make up your mind now; without delay, that you w ill make yourself acquainted with its pages and its help for war time. Don’t throw the Book down at the first sight of a difficulty; you don’t throw Shakes peare down when you fail to under stand an obscure line. Read for guid ance and help, and pray while you read.—A London Journalist. 17. Deep Living “ And I w ill give thee the treasures, of darkness, and hidden riches of se cret places” (Isa. 45:3). We love to spread our branches, The root-life we neglect; We love to shine in public, And, human praise expect; While in the inner chamber, Where creature voices cease, We may meet God in silence, And breathe in heaven’s peace. The secret of deep living Lies in the secret place, Where, time and sense forgotten, . We see God face, to face— Beyond mere forms and symbols, Beyond mere words and signs, Where, in that hidden temple, The Light eternal shines. —Selected. 18. Christian Consideration “Let your moderation be known un to all men” (Phil. 4:5). The French version gives the word “moderation” as “.sweetness:” T h e word means “conslderateness.” Are we as Christians known for our con siderate spirit for' others?. Paul says that all men should know us for this characteristic. . . In the midst of a world of coarseness the Lord wills that His people shall walk in calm and gentleness as a testimony against the age in which we are living. A true Christian w ill be courteous. •—Precious Epistles. 19. Man's Worth “God created man in his own im age, in the image of God created he him” (Gen. 1:27). Man, because he is created in the likeness of God, is rendered highly important. As we think of his humble origin and sinful nature, we are like ly to forget his real value. His worth appears id the fact that God is man’s Redeemer as well as his Creator.’ The blood of Christ shed for man’s salva tion makes him of great importance. God forbid that we should carelessly allow any man in God’s image to perish.—Ernest M. Wadsworth. 20. Had I Given More . “Every man according, as. he . pur-
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