EVERY Christian knows the value of the work of the Son of God, and it is the foundation of His peace. It is an answer to any tremblings in the soul that sometimes doubts even what it has confessed, a firm basis and foundation. But we need to grow, and the Lord ministers to our growth. Our love grows, but His never does, it is always at its height. Our love will have an eternity to develop itself in.
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We get to learn our union with Him where He is in the glory of God. But besides that, there is our association with Him in His path down here. He can speak of us as brethren:
“Go to My brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father and your Father, unto My God and your God.”
It is not for us to call Him “Brother.” In His life down here He was alone―
“Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone”―
―but when He had died, He was no more alone.
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Whenever a soul is in the truth of its condition before God, there Christ is. He associates Himself here, not with the ungodly and disobedient people, but with those who owned their sins. He was a perfect Man; He had made the stars and rolled the skies, yet here He is praying.
Is it the habit of my soul to be seeking God in prayer? This is not a day of prayer, it is a day of activity; it is not a day of piety. There is no piety without prayer, for after prayer I bear the impress of the company I have been in. Moses’ face shone, but farewell to your piety if you think of your face shining.
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“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body.”
It is a good thing to be confronted with our privileges. Nothing bows the soul like the sense of grace. I am a son of God, I am in relation to the Father and to Christ. Do I go about my everyday business in the sense of these things?
May We not only testify of His work, but may there be a brighter testimony for Him in life, and walk, and ways, from the power of, this communion.
R. HUNT.