GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 30

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

JESUS, YOU………REGARD THE LOWLY….Ps 138:6

JESUS, YOU………..SATISFY  MY LONGING SOUL…..PS 107:9

JESUS, YOU……….FILL MY HUNGRY SOUL WITH GOODNESS…..PS 107:9

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This will be the last day of reading in the book Abiding in Christ, the much loved classic book by Andrew Murray.   Beginning in July we will be reading a book by contemporary author Robert J. Morgan called Whatever Happens ~ ~ How to Stand Firm in Your Faith When the World is Falling Apart.    It is a study in the Book of Philippians. 

Now for our last day with Pastor Murray.

THE WORD FOR TODAY

John 15:10 & 12

If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love……..This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”

Regard the abiding in Him more than ever as an abiding in His love; rooted and grounded daily in a love that passes knowledge (Ephesians 3:19), you receive of its fullness and learn to love.  With Christ abiding in you, the Holy Spirit sheds abroad the love of God in your heart, and you love the believers, the most trying and unlovable, with the love that is not your own, but the love of Christ in you.  The command about your love to the believers is changed from a burden into a joy, if you but keep it linked, as Jesus linked it, to the command about His love to you.

“This is My commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you.”  Is not this now some of the fruit that Jesus has promised we will bear – indeed, a cluster of grapes of Eshcol, with which we can prove to others that the Land of Promise is indeed a good land?  (see Numbers 13:23-24).  Let us try, in all simplicity and honesty, to go out to our homes to translate the language of high faith and heavenly enthusiasm into the plain prose of daily conduct, so that all men can understand it.

Let our temper be under the rule of the love of Jesus: without our consent, He will not curb it – He alone can make us gentle and patient.  Let the vow that not an unkind word about others will ever be heard from our lips be laid trustingly at His feet.

Let the gentleness that refuses to take offense, that is always ready to excuse, to think and hope the best, mark our dealings with all.  Let the love that seeks not its own, but ever is ready to wash others’ feet, or evens to give its life for them, be our aim as we abide in Jesus.  Let our life be one of self-sacrifice, always studying the welfare of others, finding our highest joy in blessing others.  Let us, in studying the divine art of doing good, yield ourselves as obedient learners to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

By His grace, the most commonplace life can be transfigured with the brightness of a heavenly beauty, as the infinite love of the divine nature shines out through our frail humanity.  Fellow Christian, let us praise God!  We are called to love as Jesus loves, as God loves.

Abide in My love ….love….as I have loved.” (John 15:10 and 12).  Bless God, it is possible.  The new holy nature we have, which grows ever stronger as it abides in Christ the Vine, can love as He did.  Every discovery of the evil of the old nature, every longing desire to obey the command of our Lord, every experience of the power and the blessedness of loving with Jesus’ love, will urge us to accept with fresh faith the blessed injunctions: “Abide in Me as I in you”  (vs4) and “abide in My love”  (vs 10)

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