"WE DWELL IN HIM."

Do you want a house for your soul? Do you ask " what is the purchase?" It is something less than proud human nature will like to give. It is without money and without price. Ah! you would like to pay a respectable rent! You would love to do something to win Christ? Then you cannot have the house, for it is " without price." Will you take my Master's house on a lease for all eternity, with nothing to pay for it, nothing but the ground rent of loving Him and serving Him forever? Will you take Jesus and " dwell in Him?" See this house is furnished with all you want, it is filled with riches more than you will spend as long as you live. Here you can have intimate communion with Christ and feast on His love, here are tables well stored with food for you to live on for ever, in it, when weary, you can find rest with Jesus, and from it you can look out and see heaven itself. Will you have the house? Ah! if you are houseless, you will say, " I should like to have the house, but may I have it?" Yes, there is the key-the key is " come to Jesus." You say " but I am too shabby for such a house." Never mind, there are garments inside. If you feel guilty and condemned, come, and though the house is too good for you, Christ will make you good enough for the house by and by. He will wash you and cleanse you, and you will yet be able to sing, " we dwell in Him." Believer, thrice happy art thou to have such a dwelling. Greatly priviledged thou art, for thou hast a " strong habitation " in which thou art ever safe. And "dwelling in Him," thou hast not only a perfect and secure house, but an everlasting one. When this world shall have melted like a dream, our house shall live, and stand more imperishable than marble, more solid than granite, as self existant as God, for it is God Himself, " we dwell in Him."

I Will Take Heed To My Ways

Fellow-Pilgrim, say not in your heart "I will go hither and thither and I shall not sin" for you are never so out of danger of sinning as to boast of your security. The road is very miry, it will be hard to pick your path so as not to soil your garments. This is a world of pitch, you will need to watch often if in handling it you are to keep your hands clean. There is a thief at every turn of the road to rob you of your jewels. There is a temptation in every mercy, a snare in every joy, and if you ever reach heaven it will be a miracle of divine grace to be ascribed entirely to your Father's power. Be on your guard.
When a man is carrying petrol he should be careful not to go near a naked flame, and you too should take care that you enter not into temptation. Even your common actions are edged tools, mind how you handle them. There is nothing in this world to foster a love to Christ but everything to destroy it. How anxious we should be to look up to God that He may keep us, our prayer should be "hold Thou me up and I shall be safe." Having prayed you must also watch, guarding every thought, word and action with holy jealousy. Do not I pray you expose yourself to temptation unnecessarily, but if you are called to go where the darts are flying never venture forth without your shield, for if once the devil finds you without your buckler he will rejoice that his hour of triumph is come and will soon make you fall down wounded by his arrows. Though slain you cannot be, sorely wounded you may be. "Be sober, be vigilant" danger may be in an hour when all seems secure to you. Therefore take heed unto thy ways and watch unto prayer. No man ever fell into error through being too watchful. May The Holy Spirit guide us in all our ways, so shall they always please The Lord.