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Saturday, November 17, 2007
MORNING:
"To whom be glory for ever. Amen"
-- Romans 11:36
"To whom be glory for ever." This should be the single desire of the
Christian. All other wishes must be subservient and tributary to this
one. The Christian may wish for prosperity in his business, but only so
far as it may help him to promote this-"To him be glory for ever." He
may desire to attain more gifts and more graces, but it should only be
that "To him may be glory for ever." You are not acting as you ought to
do when you are moved by any other motive than a single eye to your
Lord's glory. As a Christian, you are "of God, and through God," then
live "to God." Let nothing ever set your heart beating so mightily as
love to him. Let this ambition fire your soul; be this the foundation
of every enterprise upon which you enter, and this your sustaining
motive whenever your zeal would grow chill; make God your only object.
Depend upon it, where self begins sorrow begins; but if God be my
supreme delight and only object,
"To me 'tis equal whether love ordain
My life or death-appoint me ease or pain."
Let your desire for God's glory be a growing desire. You blessed him in
your youth, do not be content with such praises as you gave him then.
Has God prospered you in business? Give him more as he has given you
more. Has God given you experience? Praise him by stronger faith than
you exercised at first. Does your knowledge grow? Then sing more
sweetly. Do you enjoy happier times than you once had? Have you been
restored from sickness, and has your sorrow been turned into peace and
joy? Then give him more music; put more coals and more sweet
frankincense into the censer of your praise. Practically in your life
give him honour, putting the "Amen" to this doxology to your great and
gracious Lord, by your own individual service and increasing holiness.
EVENING:
"He that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby."
-- Ecclesiastes 10:9
Oppressors may get their will of poor and needy men as easily as they
can split logs of wood, but they had better mind, for it is a dangerous
business, and a splinter from a tree has often killed the woodman.
Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and he is mighty to avenge
his beloved ones. Success in treading down the poor and needy is a
thing to be trembled at: if there be no danger to persecutors here
there will be great danger hereafter.
To cleave wood is a common every-day business, and yet it has its
dangers; so then, reader, there are dangers connected with your calling
and daily life which it will be well for you to be aware of. We refer
not to hazards by flood and field, or by disease and sudden death, but
to perils of a spiritual sort. Your occupation may be as humble as log
splitting, and yet the devil can tempt you in it. You may be a domestic
servant, a farm labourer, or a mechanic, and you may be greatly
screened from temptations to the grosser vices, and yet some secret sin
may do you damage. Those who dwell at home, and mingle not with the
rough world, may yet be endangered by their very seclusion. Nowhere is
he safe who thinks himself so. Pride may enter a poor man's heart;
avarice may reign in a cottager's bosom; uncleanness may venture into
the quietest home; and anger, and envy, and malice may insinuate
themselves into the most rural abode. Even in speaking a few words to a
servant we may sin; a little purchase at a shop may be the first link
in a chain of temptations; the mere looking out of a window may be the
beginning of evil. O Lord, how exposed we are! How shall we be secured!
To keep ourselves is work too hard for us: only thou thyself art able
to preserve us in such a world of evils. Spread thy wings over us, and
we, like little chickens, will cower down beneath thee, and feel
ourselves safe!
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