Pilgrim Portions

MEDITATIONS FOR THE DAY OF REST


Selected from the Writings, Hymns, Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby  

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“Those He calls His own

—pilgrims in scenes where He has been.”

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Selected by H. G.

Cover of book Pilgrim Portions


    Weeks

Preface
1—Sin

2—Grace

3—The Word of God

4—The Holy Spirit

5—The Perfections of Christ

6—Faith

7—Peace

8—Guidance

9—Humility

10—Trial

11—Communion

12—Conflict

13—Devotedness

14—Unbelieving fears

15—Separation from the world

16—Joy

17—Dependence

18—Cross Bearing

19—Looking unto Jesus

20—Growth

21—The presence of God

22—Service

23—Divine Affections (1)

24—Divine affections (2)

25—Self-renunciation

26—Songs of the night

27—The Man of sorrows

28—Love

29—The all-sufficiency of Christ

30—Divine energy

31—Help from the sanctuary

32—Rest

33—The faithfulness of God

34—Submission

35—Satisfaction

36—Nearness to God

37—Backsliding and restoration

38—The Light of eternity

39—Our needs and
       His fulness

40—Power

41—The divine heart

42—Practical santification

43—Praise

44—Cheer for pilgrims

45—The will of God

46—Simpathy

47—The courts above

48—Christ is all

49—Walking with God

50—Confidence

51—The heavently light

52—Our hope

TWENTY-THIRD WEEK

DIVINE AFFECTIONS (1)


“God is love.

                    1 John 4:8


O mind divine! so must it be

    That glory all belongs to God;

O love divine, that did decree

    We should be part, through Jesus’ blood.



What is deepest is simplest, that is the perfect love of God.

 

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When once we come really to know God, we know Him as love. Then, knowing that everything comes to us from Him, though we be in a desert—no matter where, or what the circumstances—we interpret all by His love.

 

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There is but one only sense in which God cannot suffice to Himself, that is, in His love; His love needs other beings besides Himself to render them happy. He will render others happy.

 

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The law says, Love: it is a righteous demand. But the gospel, Christ Himself, says, “God so loved.”

 

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No creation, nothing that has ever been seen in this world, could be what the cross was. Creation may shew God’s power, but it cannot bring out God’s love and truth as the cross does; and therefore it remains everlastingly the wonderful and blessed place of learning, what could be learnt nowhere else, of all that God is.

 

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There is so much selfishness in the heart of man that the love of God is to him an enigma, still more incomprehensible than His holiness. No one understood Jesus, because He manifested God.

 

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The Holy Spirit makes us feel the love of the Father. He brings us into liberty by shewing us, not that we are little, but how great God is.

 

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Where does faith see the greatest depth of man’s sin and hatred of God? In the cross; and at the same glance it sees the greatest extent of God’s triumphant love and mercy to man. The spear of the centurion which pierced the side of Jesus only brought out that which spoke of love and mercy.

 

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It is indeed a sore trial to see one who is part of ourselves … taken off at one blow, and unexpectedly. Still, what a difference to have the Lord’s love to look to. It is a consolation which changes everything. … The knowledge of the love of God, which is come into the place of death, has brightened with the most blessed rays all its darkness; and the darkness only serves to shew what a comfort it is to have such a light.

 

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Christ must be all to us or we shall soon be discouraged. … When Christ is not everything and the Father’s love the air we breathe for life we are not going right.

 

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The Father’s love, the source of all,

    Sweeter than all it gives,

Shines on us now without recall,

    And lasts while Jesus lives.

 

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Jehovah chastens those He loves. … The word draws two conclusions from this truth. … It will not be without a cause in me; it will never be without love in God. Hence I am not to despise, for there is a cause in me which makes the holy God of love act so; I am not to faint, for it is His love which does it. It is correcting a son in whom his Father delights.


Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest -

Selected from the Writings, Hymns, Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby
Scanning, OCR and revision according to the original: Santiago Escuain
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