Christian Life, Moment by Moment
MOMENT by moment the Christian lives. If we gain a victory to-day, that is no proof that we shall gain another to-morrow. It is a proof of the power and goodness of God, who ever lives to bless; but if we reap the benefit of his mercy in the future, it can only be by continual yielding and consecration. Our breath moment by moment is an evidence that God is with us; but the breath that we breathed yesterday will not profit us to-day; we need a fresh supply. Much less can we be benefited by that which somebody else has breathed. So for a person to base his confidence on the fact that he belongs to a denomination that at some time in the past had marked evidences of the presence and power of God, is to build his hope for bread to-day on money that was spent last year. It is a grand thing to have entrusted to us the ark in which are the oracles of God; but we may have this, and still be accursed captives of sin. Far better is it to have our own hearts the temples of the Holy Spirit of truth.—Selected.