August 9

John 7:37‑39
“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink. He that believeth on Me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified)” — John 7:37-3937In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) (John 7:37‑39).
THE gift of the Holy Spirit, indwelling each believer, was dependent upon the glorification of the Lord Jesus, following His sacrificial death and His triumph and resurrection. The Spirit has come to witness to these great truths. He has taken up His abode in all who have believed the gospel, and henceforth He is the power of the new life and the One who leads us out in testimony to the world. On our part we need to be very careful to deal with anything that would grieve Him or dishonor the Lord Jesus whom He delights to glorify. For it is only when He is unhindered by hidden or overt sin that He is free to do the work in which He delights—revealing the precious things of Christ to the soul that they may be shared with others.
“How changed is life since now I see―
O blessed truth—Christ lives in me!
His Spirit fills me day by day,
And as I yield, directs my way.
I need not cry in times of strife
For Him to come into my life.
For He is there since I believed
And Christ’s atoning work received;
Yea, even when my coolness grieves,
God’s Holy Spirit never leaves.
A God Omnipotent and Great,
The Bless’d and Only Potentate,
The Lord of lords and King of kings,
Creator of all living things—
What humbling on my Saviour’s part
That He should dwell within my heart!”
—Barbara E. Cornet.