GOD’S WORD FOR MAY 20

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

         JESUS, YOU……  ENLIGHTEN MY EYES – Psalm 19:8

          JESUS, YOU…… (YOUR) JUDGMENTS  ARE TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS ALTOGETHER  — Psalm 19:9

          JESUS, YOU…… ARE MY ROCK AND MY REDEEMER –Psalm 19:14

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THE WORD FOR TODAY ~ ~ Romans 8:38-39 ~ ~ “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,  nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Andrew Murray, in his classic book, “Abide in Christ”, speaks of abiding every moment in Christ, because Christ keeps us abiding.

The way in which souls enter into possession may differ.  To some it may come as the gift of the moment.  In times of revival, in the fellowship with other believers in whom the Spirit is working effectually, under the leading of some servant of God who can guide, and sometimes in solitude too, it is as if a new revelation comes upon the soul all at once.  It sees, as in the light of heaven, the strong Vine holding and bearing the feeble branches so securely that doubt becomes impossible.  It can only wonder how it ever could have understood the words to mean anything else than this: to abide unceasingly in Christ is the portion of every believer.  The soul sees this, and to believe and rejoice and love come as a result.

To others it comes by a slower and more difficult path.  Day by day, amid discouragement and difficulty, the soul has to press forward.  Be of good cheer; this way, too, leads to rest.  Only seek to keep your heart set upon the promise:

“I the Lord do keep it,…night and day.” Take from His own lips the watchword:

“every moment.” 

In this word, you have the law of His love and the law of your hope.  Be content with nothing less.  Think no longer that the duties and the cares, the sorrows, and the sins of this life must succeed in hindering the abiding life of fellowship.  Rather take the language of faith for the rule of your daily experience:

  I am persuaded that neither death with its fears, nor life with its cares, nor things present with their pressing claims, nor things to come with their dark shadows, nor height of joy, nor depth of sorrow, nor any other creature, will be able, for one single moment, to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord, and in which He is teaching me to abide (Romans 8:38-39).  If things look dark and faith seems to fail, sing again the song of the vineyard:

“I the Lord do keep it: I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.”

And be assured that, if Jehovah keeps the branch night and day and waters it every moment, a life of continuous and unbroken fellowship with Christ is indeed our privilege!!!

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