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daily devotional
"So walk ye in him."
- Colossians 2:6
If we have received Christ himself in our inmost hearts, our
new life will manifest its intimate acquaintance with him by a walk of faith in
him. Walking implies action. Our religion is not to be confined to our closet;
we must carry out into practical effect that which we believe.
If a man walks in Christ, then he so acts as Christ would
act; for Christ being in him, his hope, his love, his joy, his life, he is the
reflex of the image of Jesus; and men say of that man, "He is like his Master;
he lives like Jesus Christ." Walking signifies progress. "So walk ye in him";
proceed from grace to grace, run forward until you reach the uttermost degree
of knowledge that a man can attain concerning our Beloved.
Walking implies continuance. There must be a perpetual
abiding in Christ. How many Christians think that in the morning and evening
they ought to come into the company of Jesus, and may then give their hearts to
the world all the day: but this is poor living; we should always be with him,
treading in his steps and doing his will.
Walking also implies habit. When we speak of a man's walk and
conversation, we mean his habits, the constant tenor of his life. Now, if we
sometimes enjoy Christ, and then forget him; sometimes call him ours, and anon
lose our hold, that is not a habit; we do not walk in him.
We must keep to him, cling to him, never let him go, but live
and have our being in him. "As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk
ye in him"; persevere in the same way in which ye have begun, and, as at the
first Christ Jesus was the trust of your faith, the source of your life, the
principle of your action, and the joy of your spirit, so let him be the same
till life's end; the same when you walk through the valley of the shadow of
death, and enter into the joy and the rest which remain for the people of God.
O Holy Spirit, enable us to obey this heavenly precept.
Evening Devotion
"His place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread
shall be given him; his waters shall be sure."
- Isaiah 33:16
Do you doubt, O Christian, do you doubt as to whether God
will fulfil his promise? Shall the munitions of rock be carried by storm? Shall
the storehouses of heaven fail? Do you think that your heavenly Father, though
he knoweth that you have need of food and raiment, will yet forget you? When
not a sparrow falls to the ground without your Father, and the very hairs of
your head are all numbered, will you mistrust and doubt him? Perhaps your
affliction will continue upon you till you dare to trust your God, and then it
shall end. Full many there be who have been tried and sore vexed till at last
they have been driven in sheer desperation to exercise faith in God, and the
moment of their faith has been the instant of their deliverance; they have seen
whether God would keep his promise or not. Oh, I pray you, doubt him no longer!
Please not Satan, and vex not yourself by indulging any more those hard
thoughts of God.
Think it not a light matter to doubt Jehovah. Remember, it is
a sin; and not a little sin either, but in the highest degree criminal. The
angels never doubted him, nor the devils either: we alone, out of all the
beings that God has fashioned, dishonour him by unbelief, and tarnish his
honour by mistrust.
Shame upon us for this! Our God does not deserve to be so
basely suspected; in our past life we have proved him to be true and faithful
to his word, and with so many instances of his love and of his kindness as we
have received, and are daily receiving, at his hands, it is base and
inexcusable that we suffer a doubt to sojourn within our heart. May we
henceforth wage constant war against doubts of our God-enemies to our peace and
to his honour; and with an unstaggering faith believe that what he has promised
he will also perform. "Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief."
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