Bride.

AUGUST 11.

"All the land which thou seest" (Gen. xiii. 15).

The actual provisions of His grace come from the inner vision.

He who puts the instinct in the bosom of yonder bird to cross the
continent in search of summer sunshine in yonder Southern clime is too
good to deceive it, and just as surely as He has put the instinct in its
breast, so has He also put the balmy breezes and the vernal sunshine
yonder to meet it when it arrives.

He who gave to Abraham the vision of the Land of Promise, also said in
infinite truth and love: "All the land that thou seest will I give thee."
He who breathes into our hearts the heavenly hope, will not deceive or
fail us when we press forward to its realization. There is nothing
unfaithful in Him who has said: "If it were not so, I would have told
you," and we may know that He never will deceive us nor fail us, but all
that He reveals by His Holy Spirit He will make our own, as we press
forward and enter into its realization.

Lord, give me first the vision and then the victory. Show me all my
inheritance, and then give it all to me in Christ Jesus.

AUGUST 12.

"Not ourselves, but Christ Jesus" (II. Cor. iv. 5).

Your Christian influence, your reputation as a worker for God, and your
standing among your brethren, may be an idol to which you must die, before
you can be free to live for Him alone.

If you have ever noticed the type on a printed page, you must have seen
that the little "_i_" has always a dot over it, and it is that dot that
elevates it above the other letters in the line.

Now, each us us is a little _i_, and over every one of us there is a
little dot of self-importance, self-will, self-interest, self-confidence,
self-complacency, or something to which we cling and for which we contend,
which just as surely reveals self-life as if it were a mountain of real
importance.

This _i_ is a rival of Jesus Christ, and the enemy of the Holy Ghost, and
of our peace and life, and therefore God has decreed its death, and the
Holy Spirit, with His flaming sword is waiting to destroy it, that we may
be able to enter through the gates and come to the Tree of Life. Lord,
crowd me out by Thy fulness even as the glory of the Lord left no room for
Moses in the Tabernacle.

AUGUST 13.

"Clouds and darkness are round about Him" (Ps. xcvii. 2).

The presence of clouds upon your sky, and trials in your path, is the very
best evidence th