My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me. John iv. 34.
Seek your life's nourishment in your life's work.—Phillips Brooks.
April 17th.
It is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. Phil. ii. 13.
Full salvation is to realize that everything we see in Christ, our Example, may be ours, not by imitation, but by reproduction.—Selected.
April 18th.
Lo, I am with you all the days. Matt, xxviii. 20. (R. V., margin.)
"All the days"—in winter days, when joys are fled; in sunless days, when the clouds return again and again after rain; in days of sickness and pain; in days of temptation and perplexity, as much as in days when the heart is as full of joy as the woodlands in spring are full of song. That day never comes when the Lord Jesus is not at the side of His saints. Lover and friend may stand afar, but He walks with them through the fires; He fords with them the rivers; He stands by them when face to face with the lion. We can never be alone. We must always add His resources to our own when making our calculations.—F. B. Meyer.
April 19th.
Having . . . boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus . . . let us draw near with a true heart. Heb. x. 19, 22.