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Daily devotions for 05-06-2004:
Devotion: Morning and Evening
Morning Title: Our Dwelling Place
Evening Title: Our Time is Needed
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Morning: Our Dwelling Place
"We dwell in Him." --1 John 4:13
Do you want a house for your soul? Do you ask,
"What is the purchase?" It is something less than
proud human nature will like to give. It is
without money and without price. Ah! you would
like to pay a respectable rent! You would love to
do something to win Christ? Then you cannot have
the house, for it is "without price." Will you
take my Master's house on a lease for all
eternity, with nothing to pay for it, nothing but
the ground-rent of loving and serving Him for
ever? Will you take Jesus and "dwell in Him?"
See, this house is furnished with all you want,
it is filled with riches more than you will spend
as long as you live. Here you can have intimate
communion with Christ and feast on His love; here
are tables well-stored with food for you to live
on for ever; in it, when weary, you can find rest
with Jesus; and from it you can look out and see
heaven itself. Will you have the house? Ah! if
you are houseless, you will say, "I should like
to have the house; but may I have it?" Yes; there
is the key--the key is, "Come to Jesus." "But,"
you say, "I am too shabby for such a house."
Never mind; there are garments inside.
If you feel guilty and condemned, come; and
though the house is too good for you, Christ will
make you good enough for the house by-and-by. He
will wash you and cleanse you, and you will yet
be able to sing, "We dwell in Him." Believer:
thrice happy art thou to have such a
dwelling-place! Greatly privileged thou art, for
thou hast a "strong habitation" in which thou art
ever safe. And "dwelling in Him," thou hast not
only a perfect and secure house, but an
everlasting one. When this world shall have
melted like a dream, our house shall live, and
stand more imperishable than marble, more solid
than granite, self-existent as God, for it is God
Himself--"We dwell in Him."
Evening: Our Time is Needed
"All the days of my appointed time will I wait." --Job 14:14
A little stay on earth will make heaven more
heavenly. Nothing makes rest so sweet as toil;
nothing renders security so pleasant as exposure
to alarms. The bitter quassia cups of earth will
give a relish to the new wine which sparkles in
the golden bowls of glory. Our battered armour
and scarred countenances will render more
illustrious our victory above, when we are
welcomed to the seats of those who have overcome
the world. We should not have full fellowship
with Christ if we did not for awhile sojourn
below, for He was baptized with a baptism of
suffering among men, and we must be baptized with
the same if we would share his kingdom.
Fellowship with Christ is so honourable that the
sorest sorrow is a light price by which to
procure it. Another reason for our lingering here
is for the good of others. We would not wish to
enter heaven till our work is done, and it may be
that we are yet ordained to minister light to
souls benighted in the wilderness of sin. Our
prolonged stay here is doubtless for God's glory.
A tried saint, like a well-cut diamond, glitters
much in the King's crown. Nothing reflects so
much honour on a workman as a protracted and
severe trial of his work, and its triumphant
endurance of the ordeal without giving way in any part.
We are God's workmanship, in whom He will be
glorified by our afflictions. It is for the
honour of Jesus that we endure the trial of our
faith with sacred joy. Let each man surrender his
own longings to the glory of Jesus, and feel, "If
my lying in the dust would elevate my Lord by so
much as an inch, let me still lie among the pots
of earth. If to live on earth for ever would make
my Lord more glorious, it should be my heaven to
be shut out of heaven." Our time is fixed and
settled by eternal decree. Let us not be anxious
about it, but wait with patience till the gates
of pearl shall open.
Daily devotions for 05-07-2004:
Devotion: Morning and Evening
Morning Title: He Healed Them All
Evening Title: Waiting for a Wonder
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Morning: He Healed Them All
"Great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all."
--Matthew 12:15
What a mass of hideous sickness must have thrust
itself under the eye of Jesus! Yet we read not
that He was disgusted, but patiently waited on
every case. What a singular variety of evils must
have met at His feet! What sickening ulcers and
putrefying sores! Yet He was ready for every new
shape of the monster evil, and was victor over it
in every form. Let the arrow fly from what
quarter it might, He quenched its fiery power.
The heat of fever, or the cold of dropsy; the
lethargy of palsy, or the rage of madness; the
filth of leprosy, or the darkness of
ophthalmia--all knew the power of His word, and
fled at His command. In every corner of the field
He was triumphant over evil, and received the
homage of delivered captives. He came, He saw, He
conquered everywhere. It is even so this morning.
Whatever my own case may be, the beloved
Physician can heal me; and whatever may be the
state of others whom I may remember at this
moment in prayer, I may have hope in Jesus that
He will be able to heal them of their sins. My
child, my friend, my dearest one, I can have hope
for each, for all, when I remember the healing
power of my Lord; and on my own account, however
severe my struggle with sins and infirmities, I
may yet be of good cheer. He who on earth walked
the hospitals, still dispenses His grace, and
works wonders among the sons of men: let me go to
Him at once in right earnest.
Let me praise Him, this morning, as I remember
how He wrought His spiritual cures, which bring
Him most renown. It was by taking upon Himself
our sicknesses. "By His stripes we are healed."
The Church on earth is full of souls healed by
our beloved Physician; and the inhabitants of
heaven itself confess that "He healed them all."
Come, then, my soul, publish abroad the virtue of
His grace, and let it be "to the Lord for a name,
for an everlasting sign which shall not be cut off."
Evening: Waiting for a Wonder
"Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk." --John 5:8
Like many others, the impotent man had been
waiting for a wonder to be wrought, and a sign to
be given. Wearily did he watch the I pool, but no
angel came, or came not for him; yet, thinking it
to be his only chance, he waited still, and knew
not that there was One near him whose word could
heal him in a moment. Many are in the same
plight: they are waiting for some singular
emotion, remarkable impression, or celestial
vision; they wait in vain and watch for nought.
Even supposing that, in a few cases, remarkable
signs are seen, yet these are rare, and no man
has a right to look for them in his own case; no
man especially who feels his impotency to avail
himself of the moving of the water even if it
came. It is a very sad reflection that tens of
thousands are now waiting in the use of means,
and ordinances, and vows, and resolutions, and
have so waited time out of mind, in vain, utterly in vain.
Meanwhile these poor souls forget the present
Saviour, who bids them look unto Him and be
saved. He could heal them at once, but they
prefer to wait for an angel and a wonder. To
trust Him is the sure way to every blessing, and
He is worthy of the most implicit confidence; but
unbelief makes them prefer the cold porches of
Bethesda to the warm bosom of His love. O that
the Lord may turn His eye upon the multitudes who
are in this case to-night; may He forgive the
slights which they put upon His divine power, and
call them by that sweet constraining voice, to
rise from the bed of despair, and in the energy
of faith take up their bed and walk. O Lord, hear
our prayer for all such at this calm hour of
sunset, and ere the day breaketh may they look and live.
Courteous reader, is there anything in this portion for you?
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