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portion and inheritance of His children, but also that His children are the portion and the inheritance of God. “The Lord’s portion is his people.” And the Spirit of God, in the New Testament, tells us of the “riches of the glory o f his inheritance in the saints.” “ It pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell,” and “of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.” . . . Our emptiness needs God’s fullness that we may be filled, and God’s fullness needs our emptiness that He may have wherein to bestow the over flowings o f His goodness and tenderness and love. How suited a full God is to an empty sinner, and how wondrously empty sinners suit a full G od ! Bring your empty vessels, even empty vessels not a few, and God’s fullness will fill them all. — M a r c u s R a in s f o r d . JULY 22 Clay in the Potter’s Hand “And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand o f the potter" (Jer. 18:4). A potter put a little piece of clay, that had not undergone the preparatory pro cess that the clay must be subject to, into the mass of beaten and prepared clay. All was going well, until, in a moment, there was a twist, and the beauty and elegance o f the vessel were gone. That little bit o f undisciplined clay entirely frustrated the potter’s purpose. One cherished sin, one unholy passion, will defeat the pur pose and plan of the Great Potter, and mar the vessel upon which He has His hand. — J. G regory M a n t l e . What portion is this for the sensitive clay 1 To be broken and molded from day unto day, To answer and question not, just to be still, And know Thou art shaping us into Thy will. This, this may we plead with Thee, W ork man Divine— Press deep in our substance some symbol o f Thine. Thy name or Thine image, and let it be shown That Thou wilt acknowledge the work as Thine own. — S elected . JULY 23 Misery and Mercy “I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake" (Isa. 43:25). Let every great transgressor, in his great extremity, take this very text, and let him, on his knees, lay this place open before God. Let him be very bold. Let him, with all plainness, put God in remembrance of this great promise o f His. “Look down, and see,” let ‘ the great transgressor say, with this promise open before him and before God. “ Look down, and see if these are indeed Thine own words to such sin ners as I am.” Ask Him if it is indeed true that He “delighteth in mercy.” And then plead those two great arguments to gether—your misery and His mercy. . . . And as you so pray, and so plead, ere ever you are aware, your sinful heart will break out into this song with the prophet and will say: “Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression . . . because he delighteth in mercy.”— A l e x a n d e r W h y t e . JULY 24 To Know the Will of God “ Who worketh all things after the coun sel o f his own will" (Eph. 1:11).
You can count upon the Holy Spirit to lead you into all God’s perfect will. Think o f God’s will, not only as having come forth from infinité love, as revealed and em bodied in the written and Eternal Word, as claiming your whole life down to its minutest details, but, above all, as the promise o f what God Himself will work in you. . . . " Standing in the full light of the Eternal Love as it shines on you from heaven, you will find that light is cast upon the whole of the Word and of life. And you will then begin to under stand what the will of the Lord is—the most wonderful, beautiful, blessed thing in the universe; the one thing to be sought and loved, to be done or suffered ; the one thing worth living and dying for. — A n d r e w M u r r a y . JULY 25 Shut in with God “ When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray” (Matt. 6:6 ). Here we have one of our Lord’s plainest and most significant instructions about the manner and the nature of prayer. He is speaking of personal prayer, when the child of God wants to talk to his Father of his own affairs, and lay at His feet his own i n d i v i d u a l burdens. . . . Other presences about us disturb our thoughts and restrict our freedom, so we are to go into our closet and shut the door. This shutting o f the door is significant in sev eral ways. It shuts the work out. It se cures us against interruption. It ought to shut out worldly thoughts and cares and distractions. . . . Then, it shuts us in, and this also is important and significant. It shuts us in alone with God. No eye but His sees us in the secrecy. No ear but His hears us, as we pour out our heart’s feel ings and desires. . . . There is precious comfort in the assurance that when we thus pray, we are not talking into the air. There is an ear to hear, though we can see no presence.- It is the ear o f our Father i —J. R. M il l e r .
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