June 14

The Lord will give grace and glory. (Psalms 84:11)

There is not such a great difference between grace and glory after all. Grace is the bud, and glory the blossom. Grace is glory begun, and glory is grace perfected. It will not come hard to people who are serving God down here to do it when they go up yonder. They will change places, but they will not change employments.

June 13

To every man his work. (Mark 13:34)

If you notice that verse carefully it does not read “to every man some work,” or “to every man a work,” but “to every man his work.”

And I believe that every man and woman living has a work laid out for them to do; that every man’s life is a plan of the Almighty, and that away back in the councils of eternity God laid out a work for every one of us. There is no man living who can do the work that God has for me to do, no one but myself. And if any man’s work is not done, he will have to answer for it when he stands before the bar of God.

June 12

Yea, the faith that is by Him, hath given him this perfect soundness. (Acts 3:16)

Faith is the hand that takes the blessing. But don’t look too much at the hand. Suppose I ask a man who has just received a thousand dollars of a friend: “Did he give it to you with his right hand?” He would reply: “What do I care about which hand just so that I have got the money.”

June 11

And things which are despised, hath Gad chosen. (1 Corinthians 1:28)

Notice that all the men whom Christ called around Him were weak men in a worldly sense. They were all men without rank, without title, without position, without wealth or culture. Nearly all of them were fishermen and unlettered men; yet Christ chose them to build up His kingdom.

When God wanted to bring the children of Israel out of bondage, He did not send an army; He sent one solitary man. So in all ages God has used the weak things of the world to accomplish His purposes.

June 10

Wilt thou not tell? (Ezekiel 24:19)

We may not be able to do any great thing; but if each of us will do something, however small it may be, a good deal will be accomplished for God. For many years I have made it a rule not to let any day pass without speaking to some one about eternal things. I commenced it away back years ago, and if I live the life allotted to man, there will be more than eighteen thousand persons who will have been spoken to personally by me. How often we as Christians meet with people, when we might turn the conversation into a channel that will lead them up to Christ. 

June 9

Arise, shine. (Isaiah 60:1)

Love must be active, as light must shine. As someone has said: “A man may hoard up his money ; he may bury his talents in a napkin; but there is one thing he cannot hoard up, and that is love.” You cannot bury it. It must flow out. It cannot feed upon itself; it must have an object.