to yourself. This is where we make the
mistake. We must not only enter by faith, but we must advance by faith
each step of the way. At every new stage we shall find ourselves as
incompetent and unequal for the pressure as before, and we must take the
grace and the victory simply by faith. Is it courage? We shall find
ourselves lacking in the needed courage; we must claim it by faith. Is it
love? Our own love will be inadequate; but we must take His love, and we
shall find it given. Is it faith itself? We must have the faith of God,
and Christ in us will be the spirit of faith, as well as the blessing that
faith claims. So our whole life from beginning to end, is but Christ in
us--in the exceeding riches of His grace; and our everlasting song will be:
Not I; but Christ who liveth in me.

'Tis so sweet to walk with Jesus,
Step by step and day by day;
Stepping in His very footprints,
Walking with Him all the way.

MARCH 27.

"What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee" (Ps. lvi. 3).

We shall never forget a remark Mr. George Mueller once made in answer to a
gentleman who asked him the best way to have strong faith. "The only way,"
replied the patriarch of faith, "to learn strong faith is to endure great
trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings."
This is very true. The time to trust is when all else fails. Dear one, if
you scarcely realize the value of your present opportunity, if you are
passing through great afflictions, you are in the very soul of the
strongest faith, and if you will only let go, He will teach you in these
hours the mightiest hold upon this throne which you can ever know. "Be not
afraid, only believe"; and if you are afraid, just look up and say, "What
time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee," and you will yet thank God for
the school of sorrow which was to you the school of faith.

O brother, give heed to the warning,
And obey His voice to-day.
The Spirit to thee is calling,
O do not grieve Him away.

MARCH 28.

"The fruit of the Spirit is all goodness" (Gal. v. 22).

Goodness is a fruit of the Spirit. Goodness is just "Godness." It is to be
like God. And God-like goodness has special reference to the active
benevolence of God. The apostle gives us the difference between goodness
and righteousness in this passage in Romans, "Scarcely for a righteous man
would one die, yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to
die." The ri