PERSONAL, sensible contact with Christ is what we all need. There may be in a Christian a blameless course, and yet this dealing with the Lord may be wanting. How is such a state as this better than that of boastful Laodicea, "rich and increased in goods, and having need of nothing"?
We are strengthened by contact with Christ; we receive a fresh impulse from Him, like the man in the myth, who, when wrestling with his adversary, was strengthened every time he touched the earth.
The Christian can always praise God; whatever his own condition may be, he has always something to praise God for. Ready or unready, the saint is the subject of divine grace. But how blessed to be ready in spirit for the coming of Christ-to have always an understanding with Christ from day to day! B—k.