My Journey 8/10/2010

God's insight to me:

This is an excellent devotional. As I read it the main point that God brought out to me were these words by Mrs. Charles Cowman, "It is a platform for the display of His almighty grace and power." What ever you are going through or have already gone through, God has permitted that to happen. To answer why is in my last sentence and also this that was in the devotional, "He will give you a lesson that you will never forget", and also this, "You will never be able to thank God enough for having done just as He has". Also in this devotional is a great poem.

As I read The next devotional by A. B. Simpson it compliments the one by Mrs. Charles Cowman. It speaks about the Holy Spirit that indwells in us once we accept Christ into our hearts. The Holy Spirit the third part of the Trinity and as it is written in this devotional is, the Executor of God's will, His Divine Messenger, who is jealously concerned in fulfilling in us all the Master's will. Praise to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!

From God's heart, to mine, to yours,
Ed Shagott

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8/10

Making Straight the Crooked
from Streams in the Desert
Mrs. Charles Cowman Devotional


"Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked" (Eccles. 7:13).

Often God seems to place His children in positions of profound difficulty, leading them into a wedge from which there is no escape; contriving a situation which no human judgment would have permitted, had it been previously consulted. The very cloud conducts them thither. You may be thus involved at this very hour.

It does seem perplexing and very serious to the last degree, but it is perfectly right. The issue will more than justify Him who has brought you hither. It is a platform for the display of His almighty grace and power.

He will not only deliver you; but in doing so, He will give you a lesson that you will never forget, and to which, in many a psalm and song, in after days, you will revert. You will never be able to thank God enough for having done just as He has. --Selected

"We may wait till He explains,
Because we know that Jesus reigns."

It puzzles me; but, Lord, Thou understandest,
And wilt one day explain this crooked thing.
Meanwhile, I know that it has worked out Thy best--
Its very crookedness taught me to cling.

Thou hast fenced up my ways, made my paths crooked,
To keep my wand'ring eyes fixed on Thee;
To make me what I was not, humble, patient;
To draw my heart from earthly love to Thee.

So I will thank and praise Thee for this puzzle,
And trust where I cannot understand.
Rejoicing Thou dost hold me worth such testing,
I cling the closer to Thy guiding hand.
--F.E.M.I.
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8/10

From Days in Heaven Upon Earth
A. B. Simpson devotional

"There is no spot in thee" (Song of Solomon iv. 7).

The blessed Holy Spirit who possesses the consecrated heart is intensely concerned for our highest life, and watches us with a sensitive, and even a jealous love. Very beautiful is the true translation of that ordinary passage in the Epistle of James, "The Spirit that dwelleth in us loveth us to jealousy."

The heart of the Holy Ghost is intensely concerned in preserving us from every stain and blemish, and bringing us into the very highest possibilities of the will of God.

The Heavenly Bridegroom would have His Church not only free from every spot, but also from "every wrinkle, or any such thing." The spot is the mark of sin, but the wrinkle is the sign of weakness, age, and decay, and He wants no such defacing touch upon the holy features of His Beloved; and so the Holy Ghost, who is the Executor of His will, and the Divine Messenger whom He sends to call, separate, and bring home His Bride, is jealously concerned in fulfilling in us all the Master's will.

Lord, take from me every blemish and mark of weakness and decay, and make me Thy spotless Bride.