ur lives. It is not enough to have an impelling force--we
need just as much a repelling force, and so He holds us back by the
testing ordeals of life, by the pressure of temptation and trial, by the
things that seem to be against us, but really are furthering our way and
stablishing our goings. Let us thank Him for both, let us take the weights
as well as the wings, and thus divinely impelled, let us press on with
faith and patience in our high and heavenly calling.

Lord, help me to learn from all that comes to me this day Thy highest
will.

Lord, help me to-day to sink under Thy blessed hand, that Thou mayest have
Thy way and will with me.

DECEMBER 7.

"Abide with us; for it is toward evening" (Luke xxiv. 29).

In His last messages to the disciples in the 14th and 15th chapters of
John, the Lord Jesus clearly teaches us that the very essence of the
highest holiness is, "Abide in Me, and I in you, for without Me ye can do
nothing."

The very purpose of the Holy Ghost whom He promised was to reveal Him,
that at "that day, ye shall know that I am in the Father, and ye in Me,
and I in you," and the closing echo of His intercessory prayer was
embraced in these three small but infinite words, "I in them."

Is it for me to be cleansed by His power
From the pollution of sin?
Is it for me to be kept every hour
By His abiding within?

Is it for me to be perfectly whole
Thro' His anointing divine;
Claiming in body, and spirit, and soul,
All of His fulness as mine?

Wonderful promise so full and so free,
Wonderful Saviour, Oh, how can it be,
Cleansing and pardon and mercy for me?
Yes, it's for me, for me.

DECEMBER 8.

"Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?" (Jer. viii.
22).

Divine healing is just divine life. It is the headship of Christ over the
body. It is the life of Christ in the frame. It is the union of our
members with the very body of Christ and the inflowing life of Christ in
our living members. It is as real as His risen and glorified body. It is
as reasonable as the fact that He was raised from the dead and is a living
man with a true body and a rational soul to-day, at God's right hand. That
living Christ belongs to us in all His attributes and powers. We are
members of His body, His flesh and His bones, and if we can only believe
and receive it, we may live upon the very life of the Son of God.

Lord, help me to know the "Lord for the body and