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Sunday, October 21, 2007
MORNING:
"The love of Christ constraineth us."
-- 2 Corinthians 5:14
How much owest thou unto my Lord? Has he ever done anything for thee?
Has he forgiven thy sins? Has he covered thee with a robe of
righteousness? Has he set thy feet upon a rock? Has he established thy
goings? Has he prepared heaven for thee? Has he prepared thee for
heaven? Has he written thy name in his book of life? Has he given thee
countless blessings? Has he laid up for thee a store of mercies, which
eye hath not seen nor ear heard? Then do something for Jesus worthy of
his love. Give not a mere wordy offering to a dying Redeemer. How will
you feel when your Master comes, if you have to confess that you did
nothing for him, but kept your love shut up, like a stagnant pool,
neither flowing forth to his poor or to his work. Out on such love as
that! What do men think of a love which never shows itself in action?
Why, they say, "Open rebuke is better than secret love." Who will
accept a love so weak that it does not actuate you to a single deed of
self-denial, of generosity, of heroism, or zeal! Think how he has loved
you, and given himself for you! Do you know the power of that love?
Then let it be like a rushing mighty wind to your soul to sweep out the
clouds of your worldliness, and clear away the mists of sin. "For
Christ's sake" be this the tongue of fire that shall sit upon you: "for
Christ's sake" be this the divine rapture, the heavenly afflatus to
bear you aloft from earth, the divine spirit that shall make you bold
as lions and swift as eagles in your Lord's service. Love should give
wings to the feet of service, and strength to the arms of labour. Fixed
on God with a constancy that is not to be shaken, resolute to honour
him with a determination that is not to be turned aside, and pressing
on with an ardour never to be wearied, let us manifest the constraints
of love to Jesus. May the divine loadstone draw us heavenward towards
itself.
EVENING:
"Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your
hearts?"
-- Luke 24:38
"Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest O Israel, my way is hid from
the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?" The Lord cares
for all things, and the meanest creatures share in his universal
providence, but his particular providence is over his saints. "The
angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him." "Precious
shall their blood be in his sight." "Precious in the sight of the Lord
is the death of his saints." "We know that all things work together for
good to them that love God, to them that are the called according to
his purpose." Let the fact that, while he is the Saviour of all men, he
is specially the Saviour of them that believe, cheer and comfort you.
You are his peculiar care; his regal treasure which he guards as the
apple of his eye; his vineyard over which he watches day and night.
"The very hairs of your head are all numbered." Let the thought of his
special love to you be a spiritual pain-killer, a dear quietus to your
woe: "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." God says that as much
to you as to any saint of old. "Fear not, I am thy shield, and thy
exceeding great reward." We lose much consolation by the habit of
reading his promises for the whole church, instead of taking them
directly home to ourselves. Believer, grasp the divine word with a
personal, appropriating faith. Think that you hear Jesus say, "I have
prayed for thee that thy faith fail not." Think you see him walking on
the waters of thy trouble, for he is there, and he is saying, "Fear
not, it is I; be not afraid." Oh, those sweet words of Christ! May the
Holy Ghost make you feel them as spoken to you; forget others for
awhile-accept the voice of Jesus as addressed to you, and say, "Jesus
whispers consolation; I cannot refuse it; I will sit under his shadow
with great delight."
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