Days of Heaven Upon EarthSimpson, A. B. (Albert B.)
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Days of Heaven Upon Earth
Simpson, A. B. (Albert B.)
Calendars; Devotional exercises
And so it is, when the love of God shines through all our celestial sky,
it covers everything below, and life becomes radiant with its light.
Things that were hard become easy. Things that were sharp become sweet.
Labor loses its burden, and sorrow becomes silver-lined with hope and
gladness.
There are two ways of living in His love. One is constant trust, and the
other is constant obedience, and His own Word gives the message for both.
“If ye keep My commandments ye shall live in My love, even as I keep My
Father’s, and live in His love.”
MARCH 14.
“We are His workmanship” (Eph. ii. 10).
Christ sends us to serve Him, not in our own strength, but in His
resources and might. “We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto
good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them.” We do
not have to prepare them; but to wear them as garments, made to order for
every occasion of our life.
We must receive them by faith and go forth in His work, believing that He
is with us, and in us, as our all sufficiency for wisdom, faith, love,
prayer, power, and every grace and gift that our work requires. In this
work of faith we shall have to feel weak and helpless, and even have
little consciousness of power. But if we believe and go forward, He will
be the power and send the fruits.
The most useful services we render are those which, like the sweet fruits
of the wilderness, spring from hours of barrenness. “I will bring her into
the wilderness and I will give her vineyards from thence.” Let us learn to
work by faith as well as walk by faith, then we shall receive even the end
of our faith, the salvation of precious souls, and our lives will bear
fruit which shall be manifest throughout all eternity.
MARCH 15.
“Continue ye in My love” (John xv. 9).
Many atmospheres there are in which we may live. Some people live in an
atmosphere of thought. Their faces are thoughtful, minds intellectual.
They live in their ideas, their conceptions of truth, their tastes, and
esthetic nature. Some people, again, live in their animal nature, in the
lusts of the flesh and eye, the coarse, low atmosphere of a sensuous life,
or something worse. Some, again, live in a world of duty. The
predominating feature of their life is conscience, and it carries with it
a certain shadowy fear that takes away the simple freedom and gladness of
life, but there is a rectitude, and uprightness, a strictness of purpose,
and of conduct which cannot be gainsaid or questioned.
But Christ bids us live in an atmosphere of love. “As My Father has loved
Me, so have I loved you; continue ye in My love.” In the original it is,
“Live in My love.” Love is the atmosphere that He would have us ever live
in, that is, believing that He ever loves us, and claiming His sweet
approval and tender regard. This is a life of love.
MARCH 16.
“The Lord will give grace and glory” (Ps. lxxxiv. 11).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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