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stances, God will be in your heart a well- spring of new joy, so that you can discover the secret of power with which to meet the old circumstances as you have never been able to meet them before. —J. R ussell H owden . JANUARY 18 Given Away to Christ “My servant . . . hath followed me fully’f (Num. 14:24). If you would be a Caleb, you must give yourself away to God. You must give away your understanding, will, and affec tions, your body and all its members, . . . so that you are in no respect your own, but His alone. Oh, it is sweet to give up your self to God, to be filled with His Spirit, to be ruled by His Word. This is to follow the Lord fully. You must be changed into the same image. “We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” Our foolish hearts think it better to retain some part of Satan’s image. But, oh, this is our happiness, to reflect every feature of Jesus, and that forever— to have no inconsistency; to be like Him in every part; to love like Him ; to weep like Him; to pray like Him; to be changed into His likeness! —R obert M urray M c C heyne . JANUARY 19 The Presence of God “Glory and honor are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place” (1 Chron. 16:27). If you miss the presence of God, and have contact only with your fellow believ ers, you are going to miss God’s best . . . . If you are, at all costs, determined to get into the presence of God, there must be a settled purpose, from which nothing will deflect you. No society, however attrac tive, no conversation, however fascinating, no engagement, however urgent, must de flect us from this holy determination that, by the grace of God, we are going to get
satisfied. A’nd Christ, His red cross be tween, joins heaven and earth, links God and man. “Now then,” cries Paul, “we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by u s: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.” That is the great gospel.— J ohn M acbeath . JANUARY 16 A Christ-Controlled Vocation “Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing” (John 21:3). The lonely Christ stood on that shore, when there might have been several stal wart disciples standing beside Him. They had been in too big a hurry; they had rushed ahead of their Lord. Then came the message across the water in the early morning: “Cast the net on the right side of the ship.” As they obeyed, they recog nized Christ. And they found this out also —that fishing under the direction of Christ caused their nets to be filled. There is nothing wrong with business, nothing wrong with fishing, nothing wrong with your ordinary vocation in life; but success depends upon whether you are performing every task under Christ’s direction. It all depends upon who is in control. — S elected . JANUARY 17 New Joy “That my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full” (John IS: 11 ). God wants you to have His joy fulfilled in you. “The fruit of the Spirit is . . . joy.” Perhaps one ought to remind oneself that joy and happiness are not necessarily synonymous terms. Paul was a joyous man, but he wrote to his friends in Cor inth once, that he was “sorrowful, yet al- way rejoicing.” We need to be careful that we do not gloss over the hard facts of life. We are to be in God’s paradise, but not in a fool’s paradise. And life is going to be just as stern and difficult in the days that lie ahead as it has been in the past. But the promise is that in the old circum
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