|
||||
|
Vision By Personal Character “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things.” Revelation 4:1 An elevated mood can only come out of an elevated habit of personal character. If in the externals of your life you live up to the highest you know, God will continually say – “Friend, go up higher.” The golden […] Morning, March 27 Scripture: “Then all the disciples forsook him and fled.”(Matthew 26:56) He never deserted them, but they in cowardly fear of their lives, fled from him in the very beginning of his sufferings. This is but one instructive instance of the frailty of all believers if left to themselves; they are but […] Drawing Near to God Scripture: “Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you”(James 4:8). The nearer we come to God, the more graciously will He reveal Himself to us. When the prodigal comes to his father, his father runs to meet him. When the wandering dove returns to the ark, […] Evening, March 27 Scripture: “And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master’s table.”(Matthew 15:27) This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST . The Master had talked about the children’s bread: “Now,” argued she, “since thou art the Master of […] March 27 Service of Waiting “After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithyma: but the Spirit suffered them not” (Acts 16:7). What a strange prohibition! These men were going into Bithynia just to do Christ’s work, and the door is shut against them by Christ’s own Spirit. I, […] |
||||