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Devotion: Morning and Evening
Morning Title: Blessings of the Holy Spirit
Evening Title: The Embrace of Christ
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Morning: Blessings of the Holy Spirit
"And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost." --Acts 2:4
Rich were the blessings of this day if all of us were filled with the Holy
Ghost. The consequences of this sacred filling of the soul it would be
impossible to overestimate. Life, comfort, light, purity, power, peace; and
many other precious blessings are inseparable from the Spirit's benign
presence. As sacred oil, He anoints the head of the believer, sets him apart to
the priesthood of saints, and gives him grace to execute his office aright. As
the only truly purifying water He cleanses us from the power of sin and
sanctifies us unto holiness, working in us to will and to do of the Lord's good
pleasure.
As the light, He manifested to us at first our lost estate, and now He reveals
the Lord Jesus to us and in us, and guides us in the way of righteousness.
Enlightened by His pure celestial ray, we are no more darkness but light in the
Lord. As fire, He both purges us from dross, and sets our consecrated nature on
a blaze.
He is the sacrificial flame by which we are enabled to offer our whole souls as
a living
sacrifice unto God. As heavenly dew, He removes our barrenness and fertilizes
our lives. O that He would drop from above upon us at this early hour! Such
morning dew would be a sweet commencement for the day. As the dove, with wings
of peaceful love He broods over His Church and over the souls of believers, and
as a Comforter He dispels the cares and doubts which mar the peace of His
beloved. He descends upon the chosen as upon the Lord in Jordan, and bears
witness to their sonship by working in them a filial spirit by which they cry
Abba, Father. As the wind, He brings the breath of life to men; blowing where
He listeth He performs the quickening operations by which the spiritual
creation is animated and sustained. Would to God, that we might feel His
presence this day and every day.
Evening: The Embrace of Christ
"My Beloved is mine, and I am His: He feedeth among the lilies. Until the day
break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my Beloved, and be Thou like a roe or a
young hart upon the mountains of Bether." --Song of Solomon 2:16, 17
Surely if there be a happy verse in the Bible it is this--"My Beloved is mine,
and I am His." So peaceful, so full of assurance, so overrunning with happiness
and contentment is it, that it might well have been written by the same hand
which penned the twenty-third Psalm. Yet though the prospect is exceeding fair
and lovely--earth cannot show its superior--it is not entirely a sunlit
landscape. There is a cloud in the sky which casts a shadow over the scene.
Listen, "Until the day break, and the shadows flee away."
There is a word, too, about the "mountains of Bether," or, "the mountains of
division," and to our love, anything like division is bitterness.
Beloved, this may be your present state of mind; you do not doubt your
salvation; you know that Christ is yours, but you are not feasting with Him.
You understand your vital interest in Him, so that you have no shadow of a
doubt of your being His, and of His being yours, but still His left hand is not
under your head, nor doth His right hand embrace you. A shade of sadness is
cast over your heart, perhaps by affliction,
certainly by the temporary absence of your Lord, so even while exclaiming, "I
am His," you are forced to take to your knees, and to pray, "Until the day
break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my Beloved."
"Where is He?" asks the soul. And the answer comes, "He feedeth among the
lilies." If we would find Christ, we must get into communion with His people,
we must come to the ordinances with His saints. Oh, for an evening glimpse of
Him! Oh, to sup with Him to-night!
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