To Receive What God Is Always Ready to Communicate

January 7.

The exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward
who believe, according to the working of
His mighty power.

EPHESIANS 1, verse 19.


The lives which seem so poor, so low,
The hearts which are so cramped and dull,
The baffled hopes, the impulse slow,
Thou takest, touchest all, and lo!
They blossom to the beautiful.

SUSAN COOLIDGE.

A root set in the finest soil, in the best
climate, and blessed with all that sun and air
and rain can do for it, is not in so sure a way
of its growth to perfection, as every man may
be, whose spirit aspires after all that which
God is ready and infinitely desirous to give him.
For the sun meets not the springing bud that
stretches towards him with half that certainty,
as God, the source of all good, communicates
Himself to the soul that longs to partake of Him.

William LAW.


If we stand in the openings of the present moment,
with all the length and breadth of our faculties
unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are
in the best condition to receive what
God is always ready to communicate.

T. C. UPHAM.