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T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
April, 1940
DAILY Devotional Readings
9. The Heart “My son, give me thine heart” (Prov. 23:26). “My son, give me thine heart” ; not the head, barely to know Me; not thy memory, nakedly to remember Me; not the tongue, formally to speak of Me; nor thy foot, only to come outwardly unto Me—but the heart to love and embrace Me, to surrender and yield up all unto Me.—A. Grosse. 10. True Triumph * “Thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ” (2 Cor. 2:14, R.V.). It is the exaltation of human nature to submit to Christ . . . All our powers and faculties are heightened in their exercise, and made more blessed in their employment, because we have bowed ourselves to His control. And so to be triumphed over by Christ is to triiuiiph with Christ. —Alexander Maclaren. 11. Our Conversation “ Speaking out your thoughts to each other in psalms, in hymns, in chants inspired by the Spirit” (Eph. 5:19, Way’s translation). Does our conversation in any meas ure approximate to this exhortation ? . . . How much more ready we are to speak about other things than about Christ! . . . If we are filled with the Holy Spirit who is the supreme Lover of Christ, He will as inevitably draw our conversation to Christ, as the load stone attracts the needle to itself. • —J. Oswald Sanders. 12. The Church’s Ultimate Purpose “That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness toward us, through Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:7). Her earthly vocation will be fulfilled only as it should be, when the church of God realizes that her ultimate mean ing lies out in the ages to come (cf. Eph. 3:10, R.V.) . . . By and by somebody will say of every one of us, “She is dead—he is dead.” Don’t you believe it! We shall have gone on to the higher service, gone to the fulfillment of the vocation of the church. All ages pro ceed out of the mystery of the Divine Being, from the womb of Deity; and they shall listen to the passion song of the church as she reveals the heart of God in the midst of the universe of God.—G. Campbell Morgan. 13. “ I Die Daily” “Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh” (Rom. 13:14). "Buried with Christ,” and raised with Him, too, What is there left for me to do? Simply to cease from struggling and strife, Simply to “walk’ in newness of life.**
the unsearchable riches of our Saviour’s love.—-Life of Faith.
1. An Infinite Debt “Redeemed . . . with the precious blood of Christ” (1 Pet. 1:18, 19). When I stand before the throne, Dressed in beauty not my own, When I see Thee as Thou art, Love Thee with unsmiling heart, Then, Lord, shall I fully know, Not till then, how much I owe. —Robert Murray McCheyne. Possessing “But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him wall I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it” (Num. 14:24). Canaan was promised to all the peo ple of Israel who came out from Egypt, but of this unbelieving generation only faithful Caleb with Joshua possessed the promised inheritance. Today the Lord promises you, as a believer, “all spiritual blessings,” but you can re ceive these only as you reach out in trust and obedience and take them. —James Christian. If I am concerned about doing the will of God, He is infinitely more con cerned that I should know His will. —William Culbertson. Throne-Song Echoes “They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: . . . they shall say, The Lord is my God” (Zech. 13:9). Earth’s unaided music never strides above the half-steps of the minors; it is only when men pattern after the full-paced Harmony of Redemption that their songs run in major keys. “The Lord is my God!” Ah, but that is a glorious chord! And the reason for its grandeur is that it echoes Throne Room music, where the angels voice the Song of Moses and of the Lamb.* —Richard Ellsworth Day. 4. The Love of Christ “To know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge” (Eph. 3:19). The Apostle Paul exhausted every mathematical calculation in endeavor ing to set forth this glorious truth, and at last, in writing to one group of Christians, he could only get down on his knees and offer a prayer that they might be able to comprehend “the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of Christ.” Those dimensions may at least help us in a humble endeavor to estimate *Reprinted from "Filled With the Spirit“ by special permission of Zander- van Pub. House, Grand Rapids, Mich. 2. S.
5. The Ageless Christ “From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God” (Psa. 90:2). Son of Man, whenever I doubt of life I think of Thee . . . I can imagine the hills to dissolve in vapor, and the stars to melt in smoke, and the rivers to empty themselves in sheer exhaustion, but I feel no lim it, in Thee . . . Thou are abreast of all the centuries, nay, Thou goest before them like the star. I have never come up with Thee, mod em as I am.—George Matheson. Memorial Stones “Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen . . . saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us” (1 Sam. 7:12). How often, when faced with diffi culties and needs, we fail to remember God’s help and deliverance in' times past! How it would strengthen our hope and faith if, after each experience of God’s power, we would erect a spiritual monument or “set” a me morial stone to remind us that the Lord did solve our problems and supply our needs. As we say, “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us,” can we not be assured that He will undertake for’ us again? —Amy Cosand. He Prayed Alone “He went up into a mountain apart to pray: and . . . he was there alone” (Matt. 14:23). We, too, will find it necessary to send away the multitudes—multitudes of people and multitudes of thoughts. The Lord Jesus went aside; “he was there alone”—alone with God. How much more necessary it is, then, that we, frail children of dust, find a time and place to be alone with God. —Mary-Louise Bushnell. Silence “He will rest [Heb., be silent] in his love, he will joy over thee with singing” (Zeph. 3:17). There is a great hush; we have not any words at all. We cannot even tell Him we love Him, because we are dazzled with, a glimpse of His love, and over whelmed with our unworthiness of i t . . . The tide has risen too high for verbal prayer or praise; we have to be “silent in love.” Thefe is only one word which does not jar with the still music of such a moment—“Master!” —Frances Ridley Havergal. 6. 7. 8!
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