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J uly 10. ‘The Lord hath need of them.’ -Matt.21:3.
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OF what company of Archangels, of what men of mighty intellect and saintly piety did Christ speak such words as these? Nay, they were spoken of an ass, and of “a colt, the foal of an ass,” Emblems of stupidity and of humbleness; fit only to be beasts of burden, or to carry a beggar; yet we are told “the Lord hath need of, them.” Without them, all His purposes could not be accomplished; without them, all His words could not be ful filled. Let no man or woman imagine that they are too humble, too lowly, too stupid to be used of God. Reader! the Lord hath need of thee. Thou art indispensable to Him if all that He has purposed is to be worked out in the world. There is a place in the Divine economy and plan which only thou canst fill. There is a work for God which thou, and thou only, canst accomplish. Fit for nothing, as it sometimes' seems, but to be a beast of burden and a butt for the scorn of thy fellows, the Christ is waiting for thee that thou mayest supply His need. What an in spiration for the feeble and the obscure amongst us. Remember, however, that the asses were to be loosed and brought to Him. We must be set free from the Devil’s chain, we much come to the Master, ere He can use us for the work which He has appointed us to do. Nothing but bondage and absence deprive us of the honor of serving Him. m J uly 11. “Our Father.” — Matt. 6:9. CAN anything be more re-assuring to the tried and troubled soul than the revelation of the Fatherhood of God? Think of all that is represented by, and included in, the ideal human fatherhood, and then remember that it abounds in infinite abun dance and richness in the character and purposes of the Divine. Love, protection, counsel; guidance, provision, instruction; pa tience, pity, forgiveness; wisdom, power, foresight. We looked for, and found, all these in the’ fathers of our youth; we may expect them all, multiplied a thousand fold, in Him Who has taught us to address Him as “Our Father.” How different this from the idea of a vague, shadowy, far off Being; wrapped in His garments of glory and of power; remote, self-sufficient, self-satisfied; alien from the creatures which His hands have made. Here is the warmth of a loving heart; here is the pres ence of a sympathizing personality. True, He is omnipotent, but His omnipotence is engaged on our behalf. His omniscience and His omnipresence are not merely attributes, they are guar antees of His nearness to us and-of His acquaintance with our every need. Our Father; not somebody else’s ; not the Father of the race alone,-but ours, yours and mine. And we His chil dren, the darlings of His heart. Let us rejoice and be glad; “Why should the children of a King Go mourning all their days?” SUCH was Elijah’s estimate, in the hour of his pessimism, of the condition of God’s kingdom amongst the Israelites. Our sympathy with his depression, our pity for his folly, must not blind us to the faults of the prophet. There was lack of faith in God. Did Elijah imagine that JEHOVAH was unable to take care of His own name and glory amongst the people of the land? There was lack of faith in the message which he had been de livering; he had forgotten that God’s Word cannot be spoken in vain. There was forgetfulness of the wonders of the past. The triumph of Mount Carmel, as well as his own miraculous preservation, should have assured Him that God was able to preserve His own. Let us strive to avoid Elijah’s errors. The J uly 12. “I, even I only, am left.”—1 Kings 19:10.
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