January 28
In the beginning God made man in His own image, so close is grandeur to our dust. Before the beginning of the Christian era, minds like Plato’s felt that man was made to be intimate with God. But Jesus revealed a move from the other side. He expressed God’s great desire to be intimate with man, to enter into the life of man and transform his world from within. The Old Testament celebrates the glory of creation when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy. The New Testament heralds the music of an infinitely sweeter song: “There is joy in the presence of the...
Read MoreJanuary 27
Shortly after my salvation, I witnessed to my mother. Not so politely, she asked me never to speak to her again about the Lord. Then ten years later, she was told she had only three months to live. Here was a millionaire who had everything in the world’s eyes, but deep inside she was empty. Six weeks before she died, my wife and I went to visit her. I asked if I could talk to her about Jesus. Finally, after almost eleven years, she said Yes. When I asked her if she knew where she was going to spend eternity, she wept; she said she wanted to know. I read several scriptures that showed how she...
Read MoreJanuary 26
Arthur Gook, missionary to Iceland, tells this story in Can a Young Man Trust His God? “A man attending gospel meetings at Akureyri became anxious about his spiritual state and felt the need of help, but couldn’t pluck up the courage to ask. He was leaving for a prolonged stint some distance away and the morning he was to leave decided to visit me. I knew nothing of his concern and had decided that day to cross the ice on the fjord to arrange for meetings there. I was nearly across when the ice gave way and I plunged into the water. Happily, it was at a place where the fjord wasn’t too deep...
Read MoreJanuary 25
We have come far short of the example of the apostles, much more of Christ; we are far behind the servants, much farther behind the Master. We have had little of the grace, the compassion, the meekness, the lowliness, the love of God’s eternal Son. His weeping over Jerusalem is a feeling in which we have but little heartfelt sympathy. His passion to “seek…the lost” is little imitated by us. His unwearied teaching of the multitudes we shrink from, as too much for flesh and blood. His days of fasting, His nights of watchfulness and prayer, are not realized as models for us to copy. His...
Read MoreJanuary 24
“He who waters will also be watered himself” (Proverbs 11:25). When the Lord has given blessing by a tract or little book, Do not leave it idly lying in some soon-forgotten nook. There are others to be watered, lost and hungry souls to feed; Seek to share the grace and blessing that has reached you in your need. With its freshness yet upon you, ere the first glad glow has gone, Let your heart look up for guidance that your hand may pass it on; Then that one from you receiving blessing, gaining just like you, Can then keep the blessing flowing, and still pass it on anew. When the day of light...
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