rst Corinthians. "Ye are not your own; we
are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in
your spirit, which are God's" (1 Cor. vi:20). Our hearts occupied
with Himself, increasingly attracted by the glorious Person of our
adorable Lord, realising by the power of His Spirit our glory and
destiny with the Lord of Glory, we shall act and walk as such, who
are Christ's. Every step of the way it will resound in our hearts
"ye are Christ's." In all we do we shall always remember we are
Christ's. Cares, anxieties, worldly ambitions, all manner of
temptations, will fall before the fact grasped in faith "I am
Christ's."

We are convinced that _only_ the Person of Christ put before the
heart of the believer through the Word of God and the power of His
Spirit can keep the Christian in these awful days of apostasy from
going along with the fearful current of the last days. If Christ and
our blessing in Him become more real to us we will be beyond the
reach of the god of this age with his wiles and sinister purposes.

Furthermore the demand of the hour is for us to exalt Christ. How He
is dishonored is a dread reality. The rejection of Christ was never
so marked and never so satanic as in these days. God, the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ expects from us His children that we
exalt Him in the days of His rejection and thus share His reproach.
Let us do it!

And lastly, if we ever have the Person of Christ before our hearts,
we shall walk in obedience to Him as our Lord. Then if we exalt
Christ and are obedient to Himself we have the fullest assurance
that the Holy Spirit will be with us, upon us and fill us. There is
no need to seek "the power" as some express it, nor a baptism of the
Spirit. He will be with us and in us in the measure as we exalt
Christ and walk in Him.

O gracious Lord, when we reflect
How apt to turn the eye from Thee,
Forget Thee, too, with sad neglect,
And listen to the enemy,
And yet to find Thee still the same--
'Tis this that humbles us with shame.

Astonished at Thy feet we fall,
Thy love exceeds our highest thought,
Henceforth be Thou our all in all,
Thou who our souls with blood hast bought;
May we henceforth more faithful prove,
And ne'er forget Thy ceaseless love.

"Him will I make that overcomes
And stems the advancing flood,
A pillar of might, with glory light,
In the temple of my God.
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