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Daily devotions for 02-28-2005:
Devotion: Morning and Evening
Morning Title: Great Expectations
Evening Title: Faithful to Provide
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Morning: Great Expectations
"My expectation is from Him." --Psalm 62:5
It is the believer's privilege to use this language. If he is looking for aught
from the
world, it is a poor "expectation" indeed. But if he looks to God for the supply
of his wants,
whether in temporal or spiritual blessings, his expectation" will not be a vain
one. Constantly
he may draw from the bank of faith, and get his need supplied out of the riches
of God's
lovingkindness. This I know, I had rather have God for my banker than all the
Rothschilds.
My Lord never fails to honour His promises; and when we bring them to His
throne, He never sends them back unanswered. Therefore I will wait only at His
door, for He ever opens it with the hand of munificent grace. At this hour I
will try Him anew. But we have "expectations" beyond this life. We shall die
soon; and then our "expectation is from Him." Do we not expect that when we lie
upon the bed of sickness He will send angels to carry us to His bosom? We
believe that when the pulse is faint, and the heart heaves heavily, some
angelic messenger shall stand and look with loving eyes upon us, and whisper,
"Sister spirit, come away!" As we approach the heavenly gate, we expect to hear
the welcome invitation, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom
prepared for you from the foundation of the world." We are expecting harps of
gold and crowns of glory; we are hoping soon to be amongst the multitude of
shining ones before the throne; we are looking forward and longing for the
time when we shall be like our glorious Lord--for "We shall see Him as He is."
Then if these be thine "expectations," O my soul, live for God; live with the
desire and resolve to glorify Him from whom cometh all thy supplies, and
of whose grace in thy election, redemption, and calling, it is that thou hast
any "expectation" of coming glory.
Evening: Faithful to Provide
"The barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to
the word of the
Lord, which He spake by Elijah." --1 Kings 17:16
See the faithfulness of divine love. You observe that this woman had daily
necessities. She had herself and her son to feed in a time of famine; and now,
in addition, the prophet Elijah was to be fed too. But though the need was
threefold, yet the supply of meal wasted not, for she had a constant supply.
Each day she made calls upon the barrel, but yet each day it remained the same.
You, dear reader, have daily necessities, and because they come so frequently,
you are apt to fear that the barrel of meal will one day be empty, and the
cruse of oil will fail you. Rest
assured that, according to the Word of God, this shall not be the case. Each
day, though it bring its trouble, shall bring its help; and though you should
live to outnumber the years of Methuselah, and though your needs should be as
many as the sands of the seashore, yet shall God's grace and mercy last through
all your necessities, and you shall never know a real lack.
For three long years, in this widow's days, the heavens never saw a cloud, and
the stars never
wept a holy tear of dew upon the wicked earth: famine, and desolation, and
death, made the land a howling wilderness, but this woman never was hungry, but
always joyful in abundance. So shall it be with you. You shall see the sinner's
hope perish, for he trusts his native strength; you shall see the proud
Pharisee's confidence totter, for he builds his hope upon the sand; you shall
see even your own schemes blasted and withered, but you yourself shall find
that your place of defence shall be the munition of rocks: "Your bread shall be
given you, and your water shall be sure." Better have God for your guardian,
than the Bank of England for your possession. You might spend the wealth of the
Indies, but the infinite riches of God you can never exhaust.
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Daily devotions for 03-01-2005:
Devotion: Morning and Evening
Morning Title: Called By Love
Evening Title: Called to Election
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Morning: Called By Love
"With lovingkindness have I drawn thee." --Jeremiah 31:3
The thunders of the law and the s of judgment are all used to bring us to
Christ; but
the final victory is effected by lovingkindness. The prodigal set out to his
father's house from a
sense of need; but his father saw him a great way off, and ran to meet him; so
that the last steps he took towards his father's house were with the kiss still
warm upon his cheek, and the welcome still musical in his ears.
"Law and s do but harden
All the while they work alone;
But a sense of -bought pardon
Will dissolve a heart of stone."
The Master came one night to the door, and knocked with the iron hand of the
law; the door
shook and trembled upon its hinges; but the man piled every piece of furniture
which he could
find against the door, for he said, "I will not admit the man." The Master
turned away, but
by-and-bye He came back, and with His own soft hand, using most that part where
the nail had penetrated, He knocked again--oh, so softly and tenderly. This
time the door did not shake, but, strange to say, it opened, and there upon his
knees the once unwilling host was found rejoicing to receive his guest. "Come
in, come in; thou hast so knocked that my bowels are moved for thee. I could
not think of thy pierced hand leaving its -mark on my door, and of thy
going away houseless, 'Thy head filled with dew, and thy locks with the drops
of the night.' I yield, I yield, Thy love has won my heart." So in every case:
lovingkindness wins the day. What Moses with the tablets of stone could never
do, Christ does with His pierced hand. Such is the doctrine of effectual
calling. Do I understand it experimentally? Can I say, "He drew me, and I
followed on, glad to confess the voice divine?"
If so, may He continue to draw me, till at last I shall sit down at the
marriage supper of the
Lamb.
Evening: Called to Election
"Now we have received...the spirit which is of God; that we might know the
things that are
freely given to us of God." --1 Corinthians 2:12
Dear reader, have you received the spirit which is of God, wrought by the Holy
Ghost in your
soul? The necessity of the work of the Holy Spirit in the heart may be clearly
seen from this
fact, that all which has been done by God the Father, and by God the Son, must
be ineffectual to us, unless the Spirit shall reveal these things to our souls.
What effect does the
doctrine of election have upon any man until the Spirit of God enters into him?
Election is a letter in my consciousness until the Spirit of God calls me
out of darkness into marvellous
light. Then through my calling, I see my election, and knowing myself to be
called of God,
I know myself to have been chosen inthe eternal purpose.
A covenant was made with the Lord Jesus Christ, by His Father; but what avails
that covenant to us until the Holy Spirit brings us its blessings, and opens
our hearts to receive them? There hang the blessings on the nail--Christ Jesus;
but being short of stature, we cannot reach them; the Spirit of God takes them
down and hands them to us, and thus they become actually ours. Covenant
blessings in themselves are like the manna in the skies, far out of mortal
reach, but the spirit of God opens the windows of heaven and scatters the
living bread around the camp of the spiritual Israel. Christ's finished work is
like wine stored in the wine-vat; through unbelief we can neither draw nor
drink. The Holy Spirit dips our vessel into this precious wine, and then we
drink; but without the Spirit we are as truly dead in sin as though the Father
never had elected, and though the Son had never bought us with His . The
Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary to our well-being. Let us walk lovingly
towards Him and tremble at the thought of grieving Him.
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