GOD’S WORD FOR MAY 22

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

JESUS, YOU…… CAN USE ME FOR YOUR PURPOSES BECAUSE I AM FOOLISH AND WEAK.1 Cor. 1:27

 JESUS, YOU…… REMAIN FAITHFUL TO YOUR PROMISES —Malachi 3:6

 JESUS, YOU…… LIVE, SO I ALSO WILL LIVE — John 14:19

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THE WORD FOR TODAY

Proverbs 3:5-6

 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not trust in your own understanding. Agree with Him in all your ways, and He will make your paths straight.”

Pastor Andrew Murray is proceeding with encouragement about relying upon Jesus to keep us in Him every day, in his classic book, “Abide in Christ”.

How great is the value that this truth teaches us to attach to each single day!  We are so easily led to look at life as a great whole, and to neglect the little today, to forget that the single days do indeed make up the whole, and that the value of each believer, if you would abide in Jesus, let it be day by day.  You have already heard the message:  each single day depends  on its influence on the whole.  One day lost is a link broken in the chain, which it often takes more than another day to mend.

One day lost influences the next and makes its keeping more difficult.  Yes, one day lost may be the loss of what months or years of careful labor had secured.  The experience of many a believer could confirm this.  Moment by moment; the lesson of the day by day has something more to teach.  Of the moments, there are many where there is no direct exercise of the mind on your part; the abiding is in the deeper recesses of the heart, kept by the Father, to whom you entrusted yourself.

But just this is the work that with each new day has to be renewed for the day – the distinct renewal of surrender and trust for the life of moment by moment.  God has gathered up the moments and bound them up into a bundle for the very purpose that we might take measure of them.  As we look forward in the morning, or look back in the evening, and weigh the moments, we learn how to value and how to use them rightly.  Even as the Father, with each new morning, meets you with the promise of just sufficient manna for the day for yourself and those who have to partake with you, meet Him with the bright and loving renewal of your acceptance of the position He has given you in His beloved Son.  Accustom yourself to look upon this as one of the reasons for the appointment of day and night.  God thought of our weakness and sought to provide for it.

Let each day have its value from your calling to abide in Christ.  As its light opens on your waking eyes, accept it on these terms:

“A day, just one day only, but still a day, given to abide and grow up in Jesus Christ,”whether it be a day of health or sickness, joy or sorrow, rest or work, struggle or victory, let the chief thought with which you receive it in the morning thanksgiving be this:

“This is the day that the Father has given;  in it, I may, I must, become more closely united to Jesus,.”

As the Father asks, “Can you trust Me just for this one day to keep you abiding in Jesus, and Jesus to keep you fruitful?”  You cannot help but give the joyful response:

“I will trust and not be afraid!”

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