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Daily devotions for 01-19-2005:
Devotion: Morning and Evening
Morning Title: Seek Christ
Evening Title: Instructing the Heart
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Morning: Seek Christ
"I sought him, but I found him not." --Song of Solomon 3:1
Tell me where you lost the company of Christ, and I will tell you the most
likely place to find
Him. Have you lost Christ in the closet by restraining prayer? Then it is there
you must
seek and find Him. Did you lose Christ by sin?
You will find Christ in no other way but by the giving up of the sin, and
seeking by the Holy
Spirit to mortify the member in which the lust doth dwell. Did you lose Christ
by neglecting the
Scriptures? You must find Christ in the Scriptures. It is a true proverb,
"Look for a thing where you dropped it, it is there." So look for Christ where
you lost Him, for He has not gone away. But it is hard work to go back for
Christ. Bunyan tells us, the pilgrim found the piece of the road back to the
Arbour of Ease, where he lost his roll, the hardest he had ever travelled.
Twenty miles onward is easier than to go one mile back for the lost evidence.
Take care, then, when you find your Master, to cling close to Him. But how is
it you have lost
Him? One would have thought you would never have parted with such a precious
friend, whose
presence is so sweet, whose words are so comforting, and whose company is so
dear to you!
How is it that you did not watch Him every moment for fear of losing sight of
Him? Yet, since you have let Him go, what a mercy that you are seeking Him,
even though you mournfully groan, "O that I knew where I might find Him!" Go on
seeking, for it is dangerous to be without thy Lord. Without Christ you are
like a sheep without its shepherd; like a tree without water at its roots; like
a sere leaf in the tempest--not bound to the tree of life. With thine whole
heart seek Him, and He will be found of thee: only give thyself thoroughly up
to the search, and verily, thou shalt yet discover Him to thy joy and gladness.
Evening: Instructing the Heart
"Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures."
--Luke 24:45
He whom we viewed last evening as opening Scripture, we here perceive opening
the
understanding. In the first work He has many fellow-labourers, but in the
second He stands
alone; many can bring the Scriptures to the mind, but the Lord alone can
prepare the mind to
receive the Scriptures. Our Lord Jesus differs from all other teachers; they
reach the ear, but
He instructs the heart; they deal with the outward letter, but He imparts an
inward taste
for the truth, by which we perceive its savour and spirit. The most unlearned
of men become ripe scholars in the school of grace when the Lord Jesus by His
Holy Spirit unfolds the mysteries of the kingdom to them, and grants the divine
anointing by which they are enabled to behold the invisible. Happy are we if we
have had our understandings cleared and strengthened by the Master!
How many men of profound learning are ignorant of eternal things! They know the
killing letter of revelation, but its killing spirit they cannot discern; they
have a veil upon their hearts which the eyes of carnal reason cannot penetrate.
Such was our case a little time ago; we who now see were once utterly blind;
truth was to us as beauty in the dark, a thing unnoticed and
neglected. Had it not been for the love of Jesus we should have remained to
this moment in utter ignorance, for without His gracious opening of our
understanding, we could no more have attained to spiritual knowledge than an
infant can climb the Pyramids, or an ostrich fly up to the stars.
Jesus' College is the only one in which God's truth can be really learned;
other schools may
teach us what is to be believed, but Christ's alone can show us how to believe
it. Let us sit
at the feet of Jesus, and by earnest prayer call in His blessed aid that our
dull wits may grow
brighter, and our feeble understandings may receive heavenly things.
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