OUR BEST NOT YET CLAIMED BY US.
We have never yet known how much we can do and endure in God’s service and at God’s call. There are, by God’s goodness and grace, powers and capabilities within us beyond all that we have, at any time, ventured on, or supposed were ours. And we have never yet realized how much God is willing to be to us personally, according to our opportunities and our requirements in His service for Him and for His. How far short we have fallen in our sphere of doing what we should and can do and be! And how far short we have come of receiving the measure of God’s blessing and power that He has been more than willing to give us if we would receive it. We do not yet, in our own experience, know God in His love and goodness as He is ready to make Himself known, or even ourselves as we may be in God’s service and by His grace in our present day. The best is yet open to us in both directions.—Sunday School Times. AS WE come into fellowship with Jesus, and are yoked with Him in burden-bearing and in labors of love, He opens to us the secrets of God’s tender care over those who love and serve Him. In this way we get rid of our doubts and fears concerning God’s providential care over us. No one who knows God as Christ does, who looks up into the Heavenly Father’s face with that perfect spirit of childhood, can doubt that God intends good for His children, and is able to bring it about.—J. R. Miller.