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daily devotional
"For the truths sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with
us for ever."
- 2 John 2
Once let the truth of God obtain an entrance into the human
heart and subdue the whole man unto itself, no power human or infernal can
dislodge it. We entertain it not as a guest but as the master of the house-this
is a Christian necessity, he is no Christian who doth not thus believe. Those
who feel the vital power of the gospel, and know the might of the Holy Ghost as
he opens, applies, and seals the Lord's Word, would sooner be torn to pieces
than be rent away from the gospel of their salvation.
What a thousand mercies are wrapped up in the assurance that
the truth will be with us for ever; will be our living support, our dying
comfort, our rising song, our eternal glory; this is Christian privilege,
without it our faith were little worth. Some truths we outgrow and leave
behind, for they are but rudiments and lessons for beginners, but we cannot
thus deal with Divine truth, for though it is sweet food for babes, it is in
the highest sense strong m eat for men. The truth that we are sinners is
painfully with us to humble and make us watchful; the more blessed truth that
whosoever believeth on the Lord Jesus shall be saved, abides with us as our
hope and joy. Experience, so far from loosening our hold of the doctrines of
grace, has knit us to them more and more firmly; our grounds and motives for
believing are now more strong, more numerous than ever, and we have reason to
expect that it will be so till in death we clasp the Saviour in our arms.
Wherever this abiding love of truth can be discovered, we are
bound to exercise our love. No narrow circle can contain our gracious
sympathies, wide as the election of grace must be our communion of heart. Much
of error may be mingled with truth received, let us war with the error but
still love the brother for the measure of truth which we see in him; above all
let us love and spread the truth ourselves.
Evening Devotion
"She gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was
to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of
Elimelech."
- Ruth 2:3
Her hap was. Yes, it seemed nothing but an accident, but how
divinely was it overruled! Ruth had gone forth with her mother's blessing,
under the care of her mother's God, to humble but honourable toil, and the
providence of God was guiding her every step. Little did she know that amid the
sheaves she would find a husband, that he should make her the joint owner of
all those broad acres, and that she a poor foreigner should become one of the
progenitors of the great Messiah.
God is very good to those who trust in him, and often
surprises them with unlooked for blessings. Little do we know what may happen
to us to-morrow, but this sweet fact may cheer us, that no good thing shall be
withheld. Chance is banished from the faith of Christians, for they see the
hand of God in everything.
The trivial events of to-day or to-morrow may involve
consequences of the highest importance. O Lord, deal as graciously with thy
servants as thou didst with Ruth.
How blessed would it be, if, in wandering in the field of
meditation to-night, our hap should be to light upon the place where our next
Kinsman will reveal himself to us! O Spirit of God, guide us to him. We would
sooner glean in his field than bear away the whole harvest from any other. O
for the footsteps of his flock, which may conduct us to the green pastures
where he dwells! This is a weary world when Jesus is away-we could better do
without sun and moon that without him-but how divinely fair all things become
in the glory of his presence! Our souls know the virtue which dwells in Jesus,
and can never be content without him. We will wait in prayer this night until
our hap shall be to light on a part of the field belonging to Jesus wherein he
will manifest himself to us.
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