Gems worth pondering
June 9
"Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness."
(Colossians 1:11)
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"We know Him as we could not know
Through heaven's golden years;
We there shall see His glorious face,
On earth they saw His tears;
The touch that heals the broken heart
Is never felt above;
His angels know His blessedness,
His way-worn saints His love."
We shall thank Him for all eternity for every trial along our pilgrim path that gave Him a new opportunity to display His grace and to manifest His heart to us, His needy people, so dependent upon His power and grace.
As we thus go on with Him, we will be strengthened with all might according to His glorious power, and this "unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness." How much have we here upon which our souls may well meditate? It is He who supplies strength, giving all needed power in order that we may overcome in every adverse circumstance, according to the might of His glory.
What room is there for discouragement, as temptations and trials surround me and seem about to overwhelm me, if I realize that the very same spiritual dynamic, that wondrous energy which raised Christ form the dead, operates in me by the Spirit, that I may be even more than victorious through Him who loves me! (H.A. Ironside - Lectures on Colossians)
N.J. Hiebert # 3730
June 10
"My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me."
(John 4:34)
Yet I will wait, in labour still,
In Thy blest service here;
What Thou hast given me to fulfill -
Thy will - to me is dear!
If I have no motive but my Father's will, how astonishingly it simplifies everything. If you never thought of doing a thing, except because it was God's positive will that you should do it, how many things of your life would at once disappear; not in a constant struggle against one thing and another, but in the quiet consciousness that the grace of God has provided for everything, that you do not take a step, but what His love has provided for. . . .
Be assured that, if we are near enough to God, we shall not be at a loss to know His will.
The Father's will was His (Christ's) motive for everything. There are thousands of things we do from habit, and we say we must do them: there is not "must" for me, but Christ's will.
Where there is spiritual discernment, things get simple and clear as daylight. "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him." . . . Where there is the fear of the Lord, there will be the understanding of His word and mind. But the word of God will not be simple without subjection to him. (Pilgrim Portions for the Day of Rest - J.N.D.)
N.J. Hiebert # 3731
