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Friday, November 9, 2007
MORNING:
"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:
"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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