GOD’S WORD FOR MAY 26

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES;

  JESUS, YOU.. RESERVED FOR ME AN IMPERISHABLE, UNDEFILED INHERITANCE.—-1 Peter 1:3-4

     JESUS, YOU… HAVE GIVEN ME ALL THINGS PERTAINING TO LIFE AND GODLINESS –2 Peter 1:3

   JESUS, YOUR…… GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR ME –2 Cor. 12:9

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THE WORD FOR TODAY ~ ~ Luke 1: 74-75 ~ ~ “To grant us that we,…might serve Him without fear in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.”

Today we finish chapter 15 entitled “At This Moment” in Andrew Murray’s “Abide in Christ.”

(speaking of the event in 2 Samuel 3 when the people finally made David king of all Israel)

Then follows God’s promise.  Abner said, “The Lord has spoken …by the hand of ….David I will save My people …out of the hand of …all their enemies.”  He appealed to God’s promise; as David conquered the Philistines, the nearest enemy in time past, so he alone could conquer those farther off.  He would save Israel from the hand of all their enemies.  Beautiful type of the promise by which the soul is now invited to trust Jesus for victory over every enemy, and the life of undisturbed fellowship!  “

“The Lord has spoken” – this is our only hope.  On that word rests the sure expectation in Luke 1:70-75:

“As he spoke…that we should be saved from … the hand of all that hate us; to perform …the oath which he swore … that He would grant to us, that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.”

David reigning over every corner of the land and leading a united and obedient people on from victory to victory; this is the promise of what Jesus can do for us, as soon as, in faith in God’s promise, all is surrendered to Him, and the whole life given up to be kept abiding in Him.

“You sought for David in times past to be king over you, now then do it,” 2 Samual 3:17-18).  Do it now is the message that this story brings to each one of us who longs to give Jesus unreserved supremacy.  Whatever the present moment is, however unprepared the message finds you, however sad the divided and hopeless state of the life may be, still I come and urge Christ’s claim to an immediate surrender – this very moment.  I know well that it will take time for the blessed Lord to assert His power and order all within you according to his will, to conquer the enemies and train all your powers for His service.

This is not the work of the moment.  But there are things that are the work of the moment – of this moment.  One is your surrender of all to Jesus:  your surrender of yourself entirely to live only in Him.  As time goes on and exercise has made faith stronger and brighter, this surrender may become clearer and more intelligent.

But no one may wait for this.  The only way ever to attain to it is to begin now.  Do it now.  Surrender yourself this very moment to abide wholly, only, and always in Jesus.  It is the work of the moment.   Christ’s renewed acceptance of you is the work of a moment.  Be assured that He has you and holds you as His own, and that each new “Jesus I do abide in You” meets with an immediate and most hearty response from the Unseen One.

 No act of faith can be in vain.  He does indeed take hold of us and draw us close to Himself anew.  Therefore, as often as the message comes, or the thought of it comes, Jesus says, “Abide in Me;  Do it now”  Each moment, there is the whisper, “Do it now.”

Let any Christian begin, then, and he will speedily experience how the blessing of the present moment is passed on to the next.  It is the unchanging Jesus to whom he links himself;  it is the power of the divine life, in its unbroken continuity, that takes possession of him.  The “do it now” of the present moment – a little thing though it seems – is nothing less than the beginning of the ever present now, which is the mystery and the glory of eternity.  Therefore, Christian, abide in Christ, and do it now!

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