That
I May Know Him
For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do
not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be
filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and
spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the
Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good
work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
strengthened with all might, according to His glorious
power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy;
giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be
partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.
He has delivered us from the power of darkness and
conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in
whom we have redemption through His blood, the
forgiveness of sins.
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over
all creation. For by Him all things were created that
are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and
invisible, whether thrones or dominions or
principalities or powers. All things were created
through Him and for Him.
And He is before all things, and in Him all things
consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who
is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in
all things He may have the preeminence.
Colossians 1:9-18
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Thanks be unto God for His wonderful gift:
Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God
is the object of our faith; the only faith
that saves is faith in Him.
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Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as
in my presence only, but now much more in my absence,
work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to
do of his good pleasure.
Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God,
without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse
nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in
the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither
laboured in vain.
Philippians 2:12-16 KJV
Morning
“And when they could not come nigh unto him for the
press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when
they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the
sick of the palsy lay.”
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Mar_2:4
Faith is full of inventions. The house was full, a crowd
blocked up the door, but faith found a way of getting at
the Lord and placing the palsied man before him. If we
cannot get sinners where Jesus is by ordinary methods we
must use extraordinary ones. It seems, according to
Luk_5:19,
that a tiling had to be removed, which would make dust
and cause a measure of danger to those below, but where
the case is very urgent we must not mind running some
risks and shocking some proprieties. Jesus was there to
heal, and therefore fall what might, faith ventured all
so that her poor paralysed charge might have his sins
forgiven. O that we had more daring faith among us!
Cannot we, dear reader, seek it this morning for
ourselves and for our fellow-workers, and will we not
try to-day to perform some gallant act for the love of
souls and the glory of the Lord.
The world is constantly inventing; genius serves all the
purposes of human desire: cannot faith invent too, and
reach by some new means the outcasts who lie perishing
around us? It was the presence of Jesus which excited
victorious courage in the four bearers of the palsied
man: is not the Lord among us now? Have we seen his face
for ourselves this morning? Have we felt his healing
power in our own souls? If so, then through door,
through window, or through roof, let us, breaking
through all impediments, labour to bring poor souls to
Jesus. All means are good and decorous when faith and
love are truly set on winning souls. If hunger for bread
can break through stone walls, surely hunger for souls
is not to be hindered in its efforts. O Lord, make us
quick to suggest methods of reaching thy poor sin-sick
ones, and bold to carry them out at all hazards.
Evening
“There is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.”
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Jer_49:23
Little know we what sorrow may be upon the sea at this
moment. We are safe in our quiet chamber, but far away
on the salt sea the hurricane may be cruelly seeking for
the lives of men. Hear how the death fiends howl among
the cordage; how every timber starts as the waves beat
like battering rams upon the vessel! God help you, poor
drenched and wearied ones! My prayer goes up to the
great Lord of sea and land, that he will make the storm
a calm, and bring you to your desired haven! Nor ought I
to offer prayer alone, I should try to benefit those
hardy men who risk their lives so constantly. Have I
ever done anything for them? What can I do? How often
does the boisterous sea swallow up the mariner!
Thousands of corpses lie where pearls lie deep. There is
death-sorrow on the sea, which is echoed in the long
wail of widows and orphans. The salt of the sea is in
many eyes of mothers and wives. Remorseless billows, ye
have devoured the love of women, and the stay of
households. What a resurrection shall there be from the
caverns of the deep when the sea gives up her dead! Till
then there will be sorrow on the sea. As if in sympathy
with the woes of earth, the sea is for ever fretting
along a thousand shores, wailing with a sorrowful cry
like her own birds, booming with a hollow crash of
unrest, raving with uproarious discontent, chafing with
hoarse wrath, or jangling with the voices of ten
thousand murmuring pebbles. The roar of the sea may be
joyous to a rejoicing spirit, but to the son of sorrow
the wide, wide ocean is even more forlorn than the wide,
wide world. This is not our rest, and the restless
billows tell us so. There is a land where there is no
more sea-our faces are steadfastly set towards it; we
are going to the place of which the Lord hath spoken.
Till then, we cast our sorrows on the Lord who trod the
sea of old, and who maketh a way for his people through
the depths thereof.
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