WE recently finished a lengthy study in The Principle of Position by Miles Stanford, posted on October 30, 2020. Next up in our study is Mile’s Principles of Spiritual Growth. But before we proceed with that, I’m inclined to pause a little longer in this season of turmoil and consider a couple meditations.
FIRST up, Guarded and Guided from None But the Hungry Heart
“It is when His perfect power meets our perfect weakness, and His greater grace our deeper ill-desert–that both His power and grace obtain their highest glory in us”. – Thomas Moor
In the wondrous blessings of Christ,
Joe
Neh. 8:10 Isa 30:15, Job 2:10; Gen. 50:20
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Guarded and Guided – None but the hungry heart, #7-22
“My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Phil. 4:19).
How difficult it is for the hungry heart to adjust to the Father’s pace. He is so deliberate and thorough, while our need is so pressing and paramount. Apart from never being behind time, our Father is an eternity ahead of time! We have but to see in the Word what He has accomplished on our behalf in the Lord Jesus, and then quietly rely upon Him, “according as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness” (2 Pet. 1:3).
“God will perfect that which concerns His own; and even where there are mistakes and failures, as alas! there are in abundance with all of us, the Lord’s rich grace abounds over all, and actually takes occasion from our very mistakes to shine out all the more brightly – though, assuredly, the mistakes and failures must produce their own painful and humiliating results.”
“It is the remembrance of this which alone can give calm repose in the midst of the most discouraging circumstances. If we take the eye of faith off God, our souls must soon be overwhelmed. It is our privilege to be able, in our little measure, to thank God in view of everything, and take refuge in His eternal counsels, which must be made good despite all the unbelief of man, and all the malice of Satan.”
“May God give us to increasingly know Him! If we had only to learn what we are, we should surely be cast down, and sink into despondency; but His object in giving us a knowledge of ourselves and of His grace, is to give us an expected end. And that end is, Christ in us, our hope of glory! (Col. 1:27)
“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life” (Ps. 23:6).
