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HOLINESS V. HARDNESS TOWARDS GOD “And He . . . wondered that there was no intercessor.” Isaiah 59:16 The reason many of us leave off praying and become hard towards God is because we have only a sentimental interest in prayer. It sounds right to say that we pray; we read books on prayer which tell us that prayer is beneficial, that our minds are quieted and our souls uplifted when we pray; ..

LIBERTY ON THE ABYSS OF THE GOSPEL “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.” Galatians 5:1 A spiritually minded man will never come to you with the demand—“Believe this and that;” but with the demand that you square your life with the standards of Jesus. We are not asked to believe the Bible, but to believe the One Whom the Bible r..

JUDGMENT ON THE ABYSS OF LOVE “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God.” 1 Peter 4:17 The Christian worker must never forget that salvation is God’s thought, not man’s; therefore it is an unfathomable abyss. Salvation is the great thought of God, not an experience. Experience is only a gateway by which salvation comes into our conscious life. Never preach the e..

OUR LORD’S SURPRISE VISITS “Be ye therefore ready also.” Luke 12:40 The great need for the Christian worker is to be ready to face Jesus Christ at any and every turn. This is not easy, no matter what our experience is. The battle is not against sin or difficulties or circumstances, but against being so absorbed in work that we are not ready to face Jesus Christ at every turn. That is the ..

ISN’T THERE SOME MISUNDERSTANDING? “Let us go into Judea. His disciples say unto Him . . . Goest Thou thither again? “ John 11:7-8 I may not understand what Jesus Christ says, but it is dangerous to say that therefore He was mistaken in what He said. It is never right to think that my obedience to a word of God will bring dishonour to Jesus. The only thing that will bring dishonour is not..

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 rule in temptation is—“Go higher.”When you get higher up, you face other temptati..

VISION BY PERSONAL PURITY “Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.” Matthew 5:8 Purity is not innocence, it is much more. Purity is the outcome of sustained spiritual sympathy with God. We have to grow in purity. The life with God may be right and the inner purity remain unsullied, and yet every now and again the bloom on the outside may be sullied. God does not shield us fro..

THE MOST DELICATE MISSION ON EARTH “The friend of the Bridegroom.” John 3:29 Goodness and purity ought never to attract attention to themselves, they ought simply to be magnets to draw to Jesus Christ. If my holiness is not drawing towards Him, it is not holiness of the right order, but an influence that will awaken inordinate affection and lead souls away into side-eddies. A beautiful sain..

THE DISCIPLINE OF DEJECTION “But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to-day is the third day since these things were done.” Luke 24:21 Every fact that the disciples stated was right; but the inferences they drew from those facts were wrong. Anything that savours of dejection spiritually is always wrong. If depression and oppression visit me..

WHAT DO YOU WANT THE LORD TO DO FOR YOU? “Lord, that I may receive my sight.” Luke 18:41 What is the thing that not only disturbs you but makes you a disturbance? It is always something you cannot deal with yourself. “They rebuked him that he should hold his peace…but he cried so much the more.” Persist in the disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord Himself; do deify comm..