en always manifest to you. It
is hid and so wrapped up and enfolded in Him that only as you abide in Him
does it appear and abide. Nay, "Christ who is your life," must Himself
ever maintain it, and be made unto you of God all you need. Therefore,
Christian life is not to come to Christ to save you, and then go on and
work out your sanctification yourself, but "as ye have received Christ
Jesus, the Lord, so to walk in Him," just as dependent and as simply
trusting as for your pardon and salvation.

Ah friends, how much it would ease our tasks
For the day that's just begun,
To live our life a step at a time
And our moments one by one.

JUNE 3.

"Ye shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost" (Acts i. 8).

There is power for us if we have the Holy Ghost. God wants us to speak to
men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God
means every Christian to be effective, to count in the actual records and
results of Christian work. Dear friends, God sent you here to be a power
yourself. There is not one of you but is an essential wheel of the
machinery, and can accomplish all that God calls you to. I solemnly
believe that there is not a thing that God expects of man but that God
will give the man power to do. There is not a claim God makes on you or me
but God will stand up to, and will give what He commands. I believe when
Christ Jesus lived and died and sent down the Holy Ghost, He sent
resources for all our need, and that there is no place for failure in
Christian life if we will take God's resources. Jesus, the ascended One,
and the Holy Ghost, the indwelling energy, life and efficiency of God, are
sufficient for all possible emergencies. Do you believe this? If you
believe it, let Him into your heart, without reserve and allow Him to
control and work through you to-day by His power.

JUNE 4.

"Looking unto Jesus" (Heb. xii. 2).

There must be a constant looking unto Jesus, or, as the German Bible gives
it, an off-looking upon Jesus; that is, looking off from the evil,
refusing to see it, not letting the mind dwell upon it for a second. We
should have mental eyelashes as well as physical ones, which can be used
like shields, and let no evil thing in; or, like a stockade camp in the
woods, which repels the first assault of the enemy. This is the use of the
fringes to our eyes, and so it should be with the soul. Many do not seem
to know that they have spiritual eyes. They go