Unprofitable Meetings
A correspondent writes: — “I remember, many years ago, a young sister coming to me and complaining that she never seemed to be able to get anything out of the meetings. I said to her, ‘L—, do you, before you go to the meeting, kneel down and ask the Lord to Himself give you a portion for your soul at that meeting?’ She said, no, she did not. I recommended her to try the plan. Some time after I again broached the subject, and asked how she was getting on. Her reply was that it had made all the difference to the meetings.
“I am convinced, dear brother, that this is a most important principle. One could almost go so far as to say that we each make our own meetings. At any rate, one thing we may be assured of, that if any or all of us go to a meeting with expectant hearts, counting upon the Lord Himself to give us a blessing, we shall not go away disappointed.
“May the Lord give us to see our own privilege and responsibility in these things, that our eyes may be up to Him, not only for our own blessing but for the blessing of every one present, and further still, for the blessing of His people everywhere.”
L. W. R.
Links of Grace
The pride of Korah despised the grace that had established a priesthood to maintain a sinful, needy people in communion with the God who desired in grace to dwell among them. Judgment falls upon his pride. God will not have Christ despised.
But the children of Korah died not. When the very priesthood that Korah had despised fails in the hands of man, Samuel, the descendant of Korah, is raised up as the first of the prophets to anoint the king of God’s choice. “The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Samuel’s grandson is the chief musician, Heman.
But more than this, Samuel and David tether, i.e., before the time of David’s glory, appoint the Korahites as the doorkeepers of the Lord’s house, before the house is built. Lastly, in the 84th Psalm, uttered by the sons of Korah, led by the chief musician, we find the fruit of grace in the heart that chooses this blessed portion of being doorkeeper in the house of God rather than to dwell in those tents to which they naturally belonged.
Comparison of the passages will bring out more fully the wonderful way of God’s grace peculiar to Himself.
S. H. H.
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WHAT a mercy it is to be kept from the vast and endless wanderings of thought with which Satan now seeks to bewilder the saints, or else shut them up in systematic ignorance! May you, knowing what it is to be complete in Him, and in all the rich depths in Him, be kept from going out in the profitless mazes of Satan!
J. N. D.
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TIME spent alone with God is not time lost in the interests of Christ; it is then that the streams flow into our tiny souls.
G. V. W.