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December 11 Individuality “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself.” Matthew 16:24 Individuality is the husk of the personal life. Individuality is all elbows, it separates and isolates. It is the characteristic of the child and rightly so; but if we mistake individuality for the personal life, we will remain […] Evening, December 11 Scripture: “Ye serve the Lord Christ.”(Colossians 3:24) To what choice order of officials was this word spoken? To kings who proudly boast a right divine? Ah, no! too often do they serve themselves or Satan, and forget the God whose sufferance permits them to wear their mimic majesty for their little hour. […] Morning, December 11 1 Thessalonians 5:24 Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it. Heaven is a place where we shall never sin; where we shall cease our constant watch against an indefatigable enemy, because there will be no tempter to ensnare our feet. There the wicked cease from troubling, and the […] Trust and Do; Do and Trust Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. (Psalm 37:3) Trust and do are words which go well together, in the order in which the Holy Spirit has placed them. We should have faith, and that faith […] December 11 Honor Him in the Trials “Glorify ye the Lord in the fires” (Isa. 24:15). Mark the little word “in”! We are to honor Him in the trial–in that which is an affliction indeed and though there have been cases where God did not let His saints feel the fire, yet, ordinarily, […] |
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