Gems from March 11-12, 2005
March 11
"Him whom my soul loveth." (Song of Solomon 3:4)
We do not read scripture with sufficient intimacy of heart. We read it as if we were acquainting ourselves with words and sentences. If I do not get by scripture into nearness to God in heart and conscience I have not learned the lesson it would teach me.
Christ is your lesson as well as your teacher.... Is any book so worthy of reading as the book that we call Jesus?
I am never really in the spirit of service if I do not remember that Christ is an absent and rejected Lord. I am... a servant who has to recognize the sorrowful fact that his Master has been rejected and insulted here. Is it not a tender thought that the very sorrows and insults which have been heaped upon Him here are so many fresh claims on one's affections?
The heart, not the head, is the parent of eloquence. (J.G. Bellett)
N.J. Hiebert # 2185
March 12
"These all . . . confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." (Hebrews 11:13)
So immensely are our lives below the mark as nominal Christians that we have next to no idea of the distance at which we walk from God, and when the soul is turned to seek. . . . Him only. . . we discover with amazement how many false props we have had, and how often we have been leaning on the love and approbation of others and not upon a Father's love alone.
I find more and more the value of that word, "Enoch walked with God." I daresay in doing it he had his difficulties; but he did it. (G.V. Wigram)
N.J. Hiebert # 2186
