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‘Tis the treasure I’ve found in His love That has made me a pilgrim below; And ‘tis there, when I reach Him above As I’m known, all His fulness I’ll know.Absolute
consecration to Jesus is the strongest bond between human hearts. It
strips them of self, and they have but one soul in thought, intent and
settled purpose, because they have but one object. Can we honestly
say, with glory before us, with Christ before us: “This one thing I
do”? Which way does your eye turn? Which way are you going? God has
only one way—Christ. Paul saw Christ
on the way to Damascus, and he gives up his importance, his Pharisaism,
his teaching, his everything else, and he counts all but loss that he
may win Christ. … People talk of sacrifices; but there is no great
sacrifice in giving up dung. If the eye were so fixed on Christ that
these things got that character it would not be a trouble to give them
up. The thing gets its character from what the heart is set on. I hope that God
will keep you from every bond save the bonds of Christ, and that He
will rivet these bonds of security and joy more and more. In all true
devotedness Christ is the first and governing object; next, “His own
which are in the world”; and then our fellow men—first their souls,
then their bodies, and every want they are in. The love of
Christ constrains us in the cross to give ourselves wholly up to Him
who has so loved us, given Himself wholly up for us. … It makes us of
little esteem to ourselves in the presence of such love. We see we are
not our own, but bought with a price. The sense that we
are not our own deepens the claim in our hearts, yet takes away all
merit in the devotedness. It is by looking
to Jesus that we can give up anything. Following Christ
wholly the world or the human heart will never stand. We have to live
in natural ties as those who are not in them, to act from Christ in
them. You may be
blessed to your husband … as strengthening and comforting and
encouraging him … in the weariness and trials which accompany the
service. But do not seek to relax his energy. A wife sometimes likes to
have her husband for herself, and when her husband is the Lord’s
labourer it is a great evil. I have known a wife spoil a labourer … in
this way. A husband is bound to care for his wife, consider her, and do
anything but neglect her … but the wife of a labourer for the Lord must
put his work and labour before herself. … A wise wife who seeks first
the Lord herself, puts Him first for her husband, and does not love him
the less; it is a bond, and her husband will honour and value her, and
so will the Lord. Oh, how surely we shall feel it that day, that all that was not a heart given to Him was loss and wretchedness.
Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest - Selected from the Writings, Hymns,
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