If you help along.

JUNE 22.

"This is that bread which came down from heaven" (John vi. 58).

We had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust in
ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead; who delivereth us from so
great a death, who doth deliver; in whom we trust that He will yet deliver
us. This was the supernatural secret of Paul's life; he drew continually
in his body from the strength of Christ, his Risen Head. The body which
rose from Joseph's tomb was to him a physical reality and the
inexhaustible fountain of his vital forces. More than any other he has
imparted to us the secret of His strength; "We are members of His body, of
His flesh and of His bones"; "The Lord is for the body and the body is for
the Lord." Marvelous truth! Divine Elixir of Life and Fountain of
Perpetual Youth! Earnest of the Resurrection! Fulfilment of the ancient
psalms and songs of faith! "The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom
shall I be afraid? My flesh and my heart faint and fail, but God is the
strength of my heart and my portion forever." Beloved, have we learned
this secret, and are we living the life of the Incarnate One in our flesh?

JUNE 23.

"Now we are the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be"
(I. John iii. 2).

We are the sons of God. We are not merely called and even legally
declared, but actually are sons of God by receiving the life and nature of
God; and so we are the very brethren of our Lord; not only in His human
nature, but still more in His divine relationship. "Therefore, He is not
ashamed to call us brethren." He gives us that which entitles us to that
right, and makes us worthy of it. He does not introduce us into a position
for which we are uneducated and unfitted, but He gives us a nature worthy
of our glorious standing; and as He shall look upon us in our complete and
glorious exaltation reflecting His own likeness and shining in His
Father's glory, He shall have no cause to be ashamed of us. Even now He is
pleased to acknowledge us before the universe and call us brethren in the
sight of all earth and heaven. Oh, how this dignifies the humblest saint
of God! How little we need mind the misunderstanding of the world if He
"is not ashamed to call us brethren."

So let us go out to-day to represent His royal family.

JUNE 24.

"I will clothe thee with change of raiment" (Zech. iii. 4).

For Paul every exercise of the Chris