GOD’S WORD FOR MAY 30

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

           JESUS, YOU….GUIDE ME CONTINUALLY –Isaiah 58:11

         JESUS, YOU….SATISFY MY SOUL IN DROUGHT –Isaiah 58:11

           JESUS, YOU….STRENGTHEN MY BONES — Isaiah 58:11

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We conclude Chapter 16, entitled, “Forsaking All For Him” in a beloved classic book by Andrew Murray, written in the 1800’s, and entitled, “Abide in Christ.”

THE WORD FOR TODAY

Mark 10:30

“…. receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.”

Is this surrender of all for Christ a single step, the act and experience of a moment, or is it a course of daily renewed and progressive attainment?  It is both.   There may be a moment in the life of a believer when he gets a first sight, or a deeper insight, of this most blessed truth, and when made willing in the day of God’s power, he does indeed, in an act of the will, gather up the whole of life yet before him into the decision of a moment and lay himself on the altar, a living and an acceptable sacrifice.

Such moments have often been the blessed transition from a life of wandering and failure to a life of abiding and power divine.  But even then, his daily life becomes what the life must be of each one who has no such experience, the unceasing prayer for more light on the meaning of entire surrender, the ever renewed offering up of all he has to God.

Believer, I desire that you would abide in Christ and see here the blessed path.  Nature shrinks back from such a self-denial and crucifixion in its rigid application to our life in its whole extent. 

But what nature does not love and cannot perform, grace will accomplish and make to you a life of joy and glory.  If you will but yield yourself to Christ your Lord, the conquering power of His incoming presence will make it joy to cast out all that before was most precious.  “A hundredfold” in this life (Mark 10:40—our verse for today):  this word of the Master comes true to all who, with wholehearted faithfulness, accept His command to forsake all.

The blessed receiving soon makes the giving up most blessed too.  And the secret of a life of close abiding will be seen to be simply this: as I give myself wholly to Christ, I find the power to take Him wholly for myself; and as I lose myself and all I have for Him, he takes me wholly for Himself and gives Himself wholly to me.

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