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Daily devotions for 04-26-2005:
Devotion: Morning and Evening
Morning Title: Come Away!
Evening Title: Into Our Heart
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Morning: Come Away!
"Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away." --Song of Solomon 2:10
Lo, I hear the voice of my Beloved! He speaks to me! Fair weather is smiling
upon the face of the earth, and He would not have me spiritually asleep while
nature is all around me awaking from her winter's rest. He bids me "Rise up,"
and well He may, for I have long enough been lying among the pots of
worldliness. He is risen, I am risen in Him, why then should I cleave unto the
dust? From lower loves, desires, pursuits, and aspirations, I would rise
towards Him. He calls me by the sweet title of "My love," and counts me fair;
this is a good argument for my rising. If He has thus exalted me, and thinks me
thus comely, how can I linger in the tents of Kedar and find congenial
associates among the sons of men? He bids me "Come away." Further and further
from everything selfish, grovelling, worldly, sinful, He calls me; yea, from
the outwardly religious world which knows Him not, and has no sympathy with the
mystery of the higher life, He calls me.
"Come away" has no harsh sound in it to my ear, for what is there to hold me in
this wilderness of vanity and sin? O my Lord, would that I could come away, but
I am taken among the thorns, and cannot escape from them as I would. I would,
if it were possible, have neither eyes, nor ears, nor heart for sin. Thou
callest me to Thyself by saying "Come away," and this is a melodious call
indeed. To come to Thee is to come home from exile, to come to land out of the
raging storm, to come to rest after long labour, to come to the goal of my
desires and the summit of my wishes. But Lord, how can a stone rise, how can a
lump of clay come away from the horrible pit? O raise me, draw me. Thy grace
can do it. Send forth Thy Holy Spirit to kindle sacred flames of love in my
heart, and I will continue to rise until I leave life and time
behind me, and indeed come away.
Evening: Into Our Heart
"If any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him."
--Revelation 3:20
What is your desire this evening? Is it set upon heavenly things? Do you long
to enjoy the high doctrine of eternal love? Do you desire liberty in very close
communion with God? Do you aspire to know the heights, and depths, and lengths,
and breadths? Then you must draw near to Jesus; you must get a clear sight of
Him in His preciousness and completeness: you must view Him in His work, in His
offices, in His person. He who understands Christ, receives an anointing from
the Holy One, by which He knows all things. Christ is the great master-key of
all the chambers of God: there is no treasure-house of God which will not open
and yield up all its wealth to the soul that lives near to Jesus. Are you
saying, "O that He would dwell in my bosom "Would that He would make my heart
His dwelling-place for ever"?
Open the door, beloved, and He will come into your souls.
He has long been knocking, and all with this object, that He may sup with you,
and you with
Him. He sups with you because you find the house or the heart, and you with Him
because He brings the provision. He could not sup with you if it were not in
your heart, you finding the house; nor could you sup with Him, for you have a
bare cupboard, if He did not bring provision with Him.
Fling wide, then, the portals of your soul.
He will come with that love which you long to feel; He will come with that joy
into which you
cannot work your poor depressed spirit; He will bring the peace which now you
have not; He will come with His flagons of wine and sweet apples of love, and
cheer you till you have no other sickness but that of "love o'erpowering, love
divine." Only open the door to Him, drive out His enemies, give Him the keys of
your heart, and He will dwell there for ever. Oh, wondrous love, that brings
such a guest to dwell in such a heart!
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Daily devotions for 04-20-2005:
Devotion: Morning and Evening
Morning Title: The Veil is Lifted
Evening Title: The Confirmer
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Morning: The Veil is Lifted
"Behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom."
--Matthew 27:51
No mean miracle was wrought in the rending of so strong and thick a veil; but
it was not intended merely as a display of power--many lessons were herein
taught us. The old law of ordinances was put away, and like a worn-out vesture,
rent and laid aside. When Jesus died, the sacrifices were all finished, because
all fulfilled in Him, and therefore the place of their presentation was marked
with an evident token of decay. That rent also revealed all the hidden things
of the old dispensation: the mercy-seat could now be seen, and the glory of God
gleamed forth above it. By the death of our Lord Jesus we have a clear
revelation of God, for He was "not as Moses, who put a veil over his face."
Life and immortality are now brought to light, and things which have been
hidden since the foundation of the world are manifest in Him. The annual
ceremony of atonement was thus abolished. The atoning blood which was once
every year sprinkled within the veil, was now offered once for all by the great
High Priest, and therefore the place of the symbolical rite was broken up.
No blood of bullocks or of lambs is needed now, for Jesus has entered within
the veil with his
own blood. Hence access to God is now permitted, and is the privilege of every
believer in Christ Jesus. There is no small space laid open through which we
may peer at the mercy-seat, but the rent reaches from the top to the bottom. We
may come with boldness to the throne of the heavenly grace. Shall we err if we
say that the opening of the Holy of Holies in this marvellous manner by our
Lord's expiring cry was the type of the opening of the gates of paradise to all
the saints by virtue of the Passion? Our bleeding Lord hath the key of heaven;
He openeth and no man shutteth; let us enter in with Him into the heavenly
places, and sit with Him there till our common enemies shall be made His
footstool.
Evening: The Confirmer
"The Amen." --Revelation 3:14
The word AMEN solemnly confirms that which went before; and Jesus is the great
Confirmer;
immutable, for ever is "the Amen" in all His promises. Sinner, I would comfort
thee with this reflection. Jesus Christ said, "Come unto me all ye that labour
and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest." If you come to Him, He will say "Amen" in your soul; His
promise shall be true to you. He said in the days of His flesh, "The bruised
reed I will not break." O thou poor,
broken, bruised heart, if thou comest to Him, He will say "Amen" to thee, and
that shall be true in thy soul as in hundreds of cases in bygone years.
Christian, is not this very comforting to thee also, that there is not a word
which has gone out of the Saviour's lips which He has ever retracted? The words
of Jesus shall stand when heaven and earth shall pass away. If thou gettest a
hold of but half a promise, thou shalt find it true. Beware of him who is
called "Clip-promise," who will destroy much of the comfort of God's word.
Jesus is Yea and Amen in all His offices. He was a Priest to pardon and cleanse
once, He is Amen as Priest still. He was a King to rule and reign for His
people, and to defend them with His mighty arm, He is an Amen King, the same
still.
He was a Prophet of old, to foretell good things to come, His lips are most
sweet, and drop with honey still--He is an Amen Prophet. He is Amen as to the
merit of His blood; He is Amen as to His righteousness. That sacred robe shall
remain most fair and glorious when nature shall decay. He is Amen in every
single title which He bears; your Husband, never seeking a divorce; your
Friend, sticking closer than a brother; your Shepherd, with you in death's dark
vale; your Help and your Deliverer; your Castle and your High Tower; the Horn
of your strength, your confidence, your joy, your all in all, and your Yea and
Amen in all.
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