GOD’S WORD FOR MAY 17

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

  JESUS, YOUR…… WORD IS A LAMP TO MY FEET —Ps 119:105

  JESUS, YOUR…… TESTIMONIES ARE THE REJOICING OF MY HEART–Ps 119:111

 JESUS, YOU…… ARE MY HIDING PLACE AND MY SHIELD—Ps 119:114

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THE WORD FOR TODAY

2 Corinthians 1:21-22

 “Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God,  who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.”

Today we are finishing chapter 12 of “Abide in Christ”, the classic teaching book by Andrew Murray

The chapter is entitled:  “God Himself Will Establish You in Him”

Believer, you must admit that such a life of trust must be a most blessed one.  You say, perhaps, that there are times when you do, with your whole heart, consent to this way of living, and do wholly abandon the care of your inner life to your Father. But somehow it doesn’t last.  You forget again, and instead of beginning each morning with the joyous transference of all the needs and cares of your life to the Father’s charge, you again feel anxious, burdened, and helpless.  Is it not, perhaps, because you have not committed this matter of daily remembering to renew your entire surrender to the Father’s care?  Memory is one of the highest powers of our nature.  By it, day is linked to day, the unity of life through all our years is kept up, and we know that we are still ourselves.  In the spiritual life, recollection is of infinite value.  For the sanctifying of our memory, in the service of our spiritual life, God has provided most beautifully.

The Holy Spirit is the One who reminds us, the Spirit of recollection.  Jesus said in John 14:26:

“He shall…bring all things to your remembrance..”   (And we see from the verse of the day that we are sealed by the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee).

It is just for the establishing of us in Him that the Holy Remembrancer has been given.  Each day God will enable you to remember His blessed promises and your unceasing acts of faith and surrender in accepting them.  The Holy Spirit is – blessed be God – the memory of the new man.

Apply this to the verse: “He which establishes us … in Christ …is God.”   As you now, at this moment, abandon all anxiety and you progress toward the God who has undertaken to establish you in the vine and feel what a joy it is to know that God alone has charge, ask and trust Him by the Holy Spirit ever to remind you of your blessed relation to Him.  He will do it, and with each new morning your faith may grow stronger and brighter: I have a God who ensures that I become more firmly united to Christ each day.

And now, beloved fellow believer, (1Peter 5:10) “may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.”

What more can you desire?

Expect it confidently;

Ask it fervently;

Count on God to do His work;

Learn in faith to sing the song, the notes of which each new experience will make deeper and sweeter: 

“Now to Him that is of power to establish you…be glory…forever.  Amen”  (Romans 16:25 and 27)

Yes, glory to God, who has undertaken to establish us in Christ!!!

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