hat you would cease to envy or be disturbed
by the people around you! Some day you will be glad for the training and
blessing they have brought you.

JUNE 9.

"Ye are the light of the world" (Matt. v. 14).

We are called the lights of the world, light-bearers, reflectors,
candle-sticks, lamps. We are to be kindled ourselves, and then we will
burn and give light to others. We are the only light the world has. The
Lord might come down Himself and give light to the world, but He has
chosen differently. He wants to send it through us, and if we don't give
it the world will not have it. We should be giving light all the time to
our neighbors. God does not put a meteor in the sky to tell us when to
shine. We are to be giving light all the time wherever we are, at home, or
in the social circle, or in our place in the church. We should feel always
we may never have another opportunity for it, and so we should always be
burning and shining for Him. Let our lamps be trimmed and burning and full
of the oil of the Spirit. Above all, let us be a steady light to the lost
ones.

Let me dwell in Timnath Serah,
Where the sun forever shines,
Where the night and darkness come not,
And the day no more declines.

JUNE 10.

"Your heavenly Father knoweth ye have need" (Matt. vi. 32).

Christ makes no less of our trust for temporal things than He does for
spiritual things. He places a good deal of emphasis upon it. Why? Simply
because it is harder to trust God for them. In spiritual matters we can
fool ourselves, and think that we are trusting when we are not; but we
cannot do so about rent and food, and the needs of our body. They must
come or our faith fails. It is easy to say that we trust Him in things
that are a long way off, but there can be no trifling about it in things
where the faith must bring practical answers. It is easy to have faith for
our needs, and to trust Him when the sun is shining. But let some things
arise which irritate and rasp and fret us, and we soon find whether we
have real trust or not. And so the things of everyday life are tests of
our real faith in God, and He often puts us where we have to trust for
tangible matters--for money and rent, and food and clothes. If you are not
trusting here wholly, when you are placed in such tests you will break
down. Are you trusting God for everything through the six ordinary days of
the week?

JUNE 11.

"Thou hast the dew of thy y