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July 9 The Great Probing “Ye cannot serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:19 Have you the slightest reliance on anything other than God? Is there a remnant of reliance left on any natural virtue, any set of circumstances? Are you relying on yourself in any particular in this new proposition which God has put before you? […] July 8 The Will To Loyalty “Choose you this day whom ye will serve.” Joshua 24:15 Will is the whole man active. I cannot give up my will, I must exercise it. I must will to obey, and I must will to receive God’s Spirit. When God gives a vision of truth it is never […] July 7 All Noble Things Are Difficult “Enter ye in at the strait gate . . because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way. . .” Matthew 7:13-14 If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously […] July 6 Vision And Reality “And the parched ground shall become a pool.” Isaiah 35:7 We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt […] July 5 Don’t Calculate Without God “Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass.” Psalm 37:5 Don’t calculate without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were […] |
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