One Of The Secrets Of A Happy And Beautiful Life!

                                      
Deu 33:25  Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.

One of the secrets of happy and beautiful life, is to Live One Day At A Time. 

Really, we never have anything to do any day-but the bit of God's will for that day. 

If we do that well-we have absolutely nothing else to do.

Time is given to us in days. It was so from the beginning. 

This breaking up of time into little daily portions means a great deal more than we are accustomed to think. 

For one thing, it illustrates the gentleness and goodness of God.

It would have made life intolerably burdensome if a year, instead of a day had been the unit of division. 

It would have been hard to carry a heavy load, to endure a great sorrow, or to keep on at a hard duty-for such a long stretch of time. 

How dreary our common task-work would be if there were no breaks in it, if we had to keep our hand to the plough for a whole year! 

We never could go on with our struggles, our battles, our suffering-if night did not mercifully settle down with its darkness, and bid us rest and renew our strength.

We do not understand how great a mercy there is for us in the briefness of our short days. 

If they were even twice as long as they are-life would be intolerable! 

Many a time when the sun goes down-we feel that we could scarcely have gone another step. 

We would have fainted in defeat-if the summons to rest had not come just when it did.

We see the graciousness of the divine thoughtfulness in giving us time in periods of little days, which we can easily get through with...

And not in great years, in which we would faint and fall by the way. 

It makes it possible for us to go on through all the long years and not to be overwrought, for we never have given to us at any one time-more than we can do between the morning and the evening.

If we learn well the lesson of living just one day at a time, without anxiety for either yesterday or tomorrow, we shall have found one of the great secrets of Christian peace. 

That is the way God teaches us to live. 

That is the lesson both of the Bible and of nature.

If we learn it, it will cure us of all anxiety...

It will save us from all feverish haste...

It will enable us to live sweetly in any experience.

Mat 6:34  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. 

~J. R. Miller~

The Development of Consecration~"Let Us Go On"

Heb 6:1  Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

The real value of this exhortation is found in the implication of the Greek word used.

It is the same word as in Acts 2:2 ("rushing") and II Peter 1:21 ("moved").
 
It really means to be borne along by another.
 
This would indicate that God is moving on, the Spirit of God is going forward.

He is not tarrying or delaying, but with great energy is pursuing His goal.

Let us fall in with Him.
 
Let us be caught in His goings.

Let us yield to His energies.

Let us not be left behind by the Lord.

"Full-growth" is His goal;

Let us not remain infants or immature.

~T. Austin Sparks~ 

Mark Of Divine Approval

                                                     

Yes, he is blessed while he is enduring the trial. 

No eye can see this till he has been anointed with heavenly eye salve. 

But he must endure it and neither rebel against God nor turn aside from his integrity. 

He is blessed who has gone through the fire and has not been consumed as a counterfeit. 

When the test is over, then comes the hallmark of divine approval..."the crown of life." 

As if the LORD said, "Let him live; he has been weighed in the balances, and he is not found wanting." 

Life is the reward: not mere being, but holy, happy, true existence, the realization of the divine purpose concerning us. 

Already a higher form of spiritual life and enjoyment crowns those who have safely passed through fiercest trials of faith and love. 

The LORD hath promised the crown of life to those who love Him. 

Only lovers of the LORD will hold out in the hour of trial; the rest will either sink or sulk, or slink back to the world. 

Come, my heart, dost thou love thy LORD?

Truly?

Deeply? 

Wholly? 

Then that love will be tried; but many waters will not quench it, neither will the Roods drown it...

LORD, let Thy love nourish mine to the end.

~Charles Spurgeon~

What Cannot Be Uttered

Rom 8:26  Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
 
Rom 8:27  And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
     
This is the deep mystery of prayer. 

This is the delicate divine mechanism which words cannot interpret, and which theology cannot explain, but which the humblest believer knows even when he does not understand.
      
Oh, the burdens that we love to bear and cannot understand! 

Oh, the inarticulate out-reachings of our hearts for things we cannot comprehend!

And yet we know they are an echo from the throne and a whisper from the heart of God. 

It is often a groan rather than a song, a burden rather than a buoyant wing. 

But it is a blessed burden, and it is a groan whose undertone is praise and unutterable joy. 

It is "a groaning which cannot be uttered." 

We could not ourselves express it always, and sometimes we do not understand any more than that God is praying in us, for something that needs His touch and that He understands.

And so we can just pour out the fullness of our heart, the burden of our spirit, the sorrow that crushes us, and know that He hears, He loves, He understands, He receives; 

And He separates from our prayer all that is imperfect, ignorant and wrong, and presents the rest, with the incense of the great High Priest, before the throne on high; 

And our prayer is heard, accepted and answered in His name.

~A. B. Simpson~

It is not necessary to be always speaking to God or always hearing from God, to have communion with Him; there is an inarticulate fellowship more sweet than words. 

The little child can sit all day long beside its busy mother and, although few words are spoken on either side, and both are busy, the one at his absorbing play, the other at her engrossing work, yet both are in perfect fellowship. 

He knows that she is there, and she knows that he is all right. 

So the saint and the Saviour can go on for hours in the silent fellowship of love, and he be busy about the most common things, and yet conscious that every little thing he does is touched with the complexion of His presence, and the sense of His approval and blessing.

And then, when pressed with burdens and troubles too complicated to put into words and too mysterious to tell or understand, how sweet it is to fall back into His blessed arms, and just sob out the sorrow that we cannot speak!

~Selected~
     

A Strong Heart

Wait! Wait! Let your waiting be on the LORD! 

He is worth waiting for.

He never disappoints the waiting soul. 

While waiting keep up your spirits, Expect a great deliverance, and be ready to praise God for it.

The promise which should cheer you is in the middle of the verse..."He shall strengthen thine heart." 

This goes at once to the place where you need help. 

If the heart be sound, all the rest of the system will work well. 

The heart wants calming and cheering, and both of these will come if it be strengthened. 

A forceful heart rests and rejoices and throbs force into the whole man. 

No one else can get at that secret urn of life, the heart, so as to pour strength into it.

He alone who made it can make it strong. 

God is full of strength, and, therefore, He can impart it to those who need it. 

Oh, be brave; for the LORD will impart His strength to you, and you shall be calm in tempest and glad in sorrow.

He who penned these lines can write as David did..."Wait, I say, on the LORD."

I do, indeed, say it.

I know by long and deep experience that it is good for me to wait upon the LORD.

~Charles Spurgeon~