y Ghost,' 'The Kingdom is joy in
the Holy Ghost.' The Holy Spirit, the Blessed Spirit of Jesus
is within thee, a very fountain of living water, of joy and
gladness. Oh, seek to know Him, who dwells in thee, to work all
that Jesus has for thee: He will be in thee the Spirit of faith
and of joy.

4. Love and joy ever keep company. Love, denying and forgetting
itself for the brethren and the lost, living in them, finds the
joy of God. 'The kingdom of God is joy in the Holy Ghost.'

Twenty-second Day.

HOLY IN CHRIST.

In Christ our Sanctification.

'Of God are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from
God, both righteousness and sanctification and redemption; that,
according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the
Lord.'--1 Cor. i. 30, 31.

These words lead us on now to the very centre of God's revelation of the
way of holiness. We know the steps of the road leading hither. He is
holy, and holiness is His. He makes holy by coming near. His presence is
holiness. In Christ's life, the holiness that had only been revealed in
symbol, and as a promise of good things to come, had really taken
possession of a human will, and been made one with true human nature. In
His death every obstacle had been removed that could prevent the
transmission of that holy nature to us: Christ had truly become our
sanctification. In the Holy Spirit the actual communication of that
holiness took place. And now we want to understand what the work is the
Holy Spirit does, and how He communicates this holy nature to us: what
our relation is to Christ as our sanctification, and what the position
we have to take up toward Him, that in its fulness and its power it may
do its work for us.

The Divine answer to this question is, 'Of God are ye _in Christ_.' The
one thing we need to apprehend is, what this our position and life in
Christ is, and how that position and life may on our part be accepted
and maintained. Of this we may be sure, that it is not something that is
high and beyond our reach. There need be no exhausting effort or
hopeless sighing, 'Who shall ascend into heaven, that is, to bring
Christ down from above?' It is a life that is meant for the sinful and
the weary, for the unworthy and the impotent. It is a life that is the
gift of the Father's love, and that He Himself will reveal in each one
who comes in childlike trust to Him. It is a life that is m