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of the flesh. God loves us to wait “upon” Him, but sometimes He also desires that we should wait “for” Him, and keeps us in the antechamber with no apparent answer to our petition. Let us, at such seasons, stand firm upon His promise. Let us remem ber that His own appointed hour is the best. “He never is before His time; He never is behind.” Do not say: “My way is passed over of my God” because He does not do for you all you ask, or even all that He has promised, just when you desire it to be done. “Tarry thou the LORD’S leisure” : “Murmur not at His delay ’; ' Dare not set thy God a tithe ; THAT is, let him say .“NO” to himself; let him disown himself. Self-denial is the indispensable condition of true dis- cipleship. But self-denial is a much misunderstood thing. It is not simply the abandonment of some desired pleasure, or even the abstinence from some darling sin. It is the utter rejection of self, the constant refusal to do the bidding of the flesh; it is the disowning of the ego, the denial of its claims to regulate and dominate the life. To “take care of number one” is the first instinct of the fallen heart. To plan all life with reference to our own pleasure, advantage, advancement and ease, is as natural as breathing, and we do it almost as constantly. But Christ’s, disciple is to recognize a new Master and to have a new aim in existence. He is to say “No” to self, that he may say “Yes” to his Lord. He is to depose and discrown the old tyrant that he may be loyal to the King of kings. And that, not spas modically, but always—or rather once for all; not in some things, but in everything. Moreover, it is to be done “not grudgingly, or of necessity,” but out of love to Him who has loved us and given Himself for us. There is to be no Ash Wednesday sigh in our self-denial, but the true Lenten gladness of a budding spring, putting on its robes of freshness and of beauty that it may welcome Him “Whose right it is to reign.” M ay 21. “The flowers appear on the earth.”—Song of Sol. 2:12. BUT we have seen them so often that we have lost the sense of their mystery and their marvel: we no longer learn the lessons they were intended to teach. “The flowers appear on the earth,” and we know that they, come straight from the hand of God, but do we ask ourselves with what communication they are charged from Him? Why flowers at all? They are not indis pensable. Why beauty of any kind? He could have made the whole earth in straight lines _and dyed it an universal brown. Surely these blossoms, in their “flaming loveliness,” bring us mes sages from heaven. First they tell us of our Father’s love of beauty; not of moral beauty alone, but of physical. No utilitar ian God, He, but One Who rejoices in the sweet, the gracious, the fragrant, the glorious. And then they tell us of His love for man; that which He Himself enjoys, He desires His children also to enjoy. They are not necessary, these flowers, for our existence, or even for our well being—they are siiperadded pleasures, the gift of a Father’s beneficence. No stern unbending Deity, no God careless of His creatures’ happiness, would have given us flowers. We can trust the heart that planned the daisy, the hand from which the lily and the lilac come. Meanwhile, Calmly for His coming stay; Leave it, leave it all to Him.” ' M ay 20.. "Let him deny himself." — Matt. 16:24.
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