rath in our stead. His own self bare our sins in His own body on
the tree. How great has been and still is His love for us, the love,
which passeth knowledge. He is worthy of the first place every
moment of our lives. He is worthy to possess all we have and are. We
are bought with a price, we are not our own. We belong to Him.

What unspeakable grace from God the Father, that He has brought us
into fellowship with Him to whom He has given the pre-eminence. We
please the Father as we delight ourselves in the Son and walk in
that blessed fellowship. We must honor Him whom the Father has
honored, and as we serve the Lord Jesus Christ and accord Him the
first place, the Father will honor us (John xii:26). Our hearts too
can never fully know the blessed peace of God and rest of faith till
we give our Lord the first place. Anything less than that will mean
dishonor to Him. "Not I--but Christ" must be the constant cry of
our hearts. Not I--but Christ in our daily walk; Not I--but Christ
in our service. Oh! that we might realize our great and holy
calling, our wonderful privilege, a privilege which is ours for but
a little while longer to live Him, live for Him, who has in all
things the pre-eminence.

Nothing save Him, in all our ways,
Giving the theme for ceaseless praise;
Our whole resource along the road,
Nothing but Christ--the Christ of God.

"Ye are Christ's--Christ is God's."

ONLY a few words, yet how blessedly full of peace and joy! How
precious they are to faith! If we, to whom they apply, would
remember them daily, how happy in Him we would be. In all our ways,
in good and evil days, yea, every moment the truth contained in
these words ought to be real to the true believer. Is not all our
failure due to the fact that we live not sufficiently in the
consciousness and reality of this wonderful fact, that we belong to
Christ, that we are one with Him? Before these words in the third
chapter of First Corinthians we find the statement "all things are
yours." And after these words it is written "Christ is God's." We
are Christ's and Christ is God's; all things are ours because Grace
has brought us into this marvelous relationship. "Christ is God's"
gives us once more the whole story of God's Love and Grace. As the
Only Begotten He ever subsisted in the form of God, the Image of
God, one with Him, absolutely God. But He came down, took upon Him
the form of a servant, taking His place in the likeness