Oh, how does the stricken soul honor God by thus being dumb in the midst of dark and perplexing dealings, recognizing in these, part of the needed discipline and training for a sorrowless, sinless, deathless world; regarding every trial as a link in the chain which draws it to heaven, where the whitest robes will be found to be those here baptized with suffering, and bathed in tears!
“ARM YOURSELVES LIKEWISE WITH THE SAME MIND.”
Third Day.
DEVOTEDNESS TO GOD.
“Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?”—Luke, ii. 49.
“My meat and my drink are to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish His work.” That one object brought Jesus from heaven—that one object he pursued with unflinching, undeviating constancy, until He could say, “It is finished.”
However short man comes of his “chief end,” “Glory to God in the highest” was the motive, the rule, and exponent of every act of that wondrous life. With us, the magnet of the soul, even when truest, is ever subject to partial oscillations and depressions, trembling at times away from its great attraction-point. His never knew one tremulous wavering from its all-glorious center. With Him there were no ebbs and flows, no fits and starts. He could say, in the words of that prophetic psalm which speaks so preëminently of Himself, “I have set the Lord always before me!”