|
|||
|
June 24 Reconciling One’s Self To The Fact Of Sin This is your hour, and the power of darkness.” Luke 22:53 It is not being reconciled to the fact of sin that produces all the disasters in life. You may talk about the nobility of human nature, but there is something in human nature […] June 23 Acquaintance With Grief “A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.” Isaiah 53:3 We are not acquainted with grief in the way in which Our Lord was acquainted with it; we endure it, we get through it, but we do not become intimate with it. At the beginning of life we do […] June 22 The Undeviating Test “For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.” Matthew 7:2 This statement is not a haphazard guess, it is an eternal law of God. Whatever judgment you give, it is measured to you again. […] June 21 The Ministry Of The Interior “But ye are . . . a royal priesthood.” 1 Peter 2:9 By what right do we become “a royal priesthood”? By the right of the Atonement. Are we prepared to leave ourselves resolutely alone and to launch out into the priestly work of prayer? The continual […] June 20 Have You Come To “When” Yet? “And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends.” Job 42:10 The plaintive, self-centred, morbid kind of prayer, a dead-set that I want to be right, is never found in the New Testament. The fact that I am trying to be […] |
|||