His only object in wanting to live
is to be a blessing. "To abide in the flesh is more needful to you."

Having reached this state of heart, it is beautiful to notice how quickly
he rises to the victorious faith necessary to claim perfect strength and
health. Because it is more needful to you that I abide in the flesh, he
adds, "I know that I shall continue with you all, for your furtherance and
joy of faith." Lord, help me to-day to "count not my life dear unto myself
that I may finish my course with joy and the ministry that I have received
of Jesus."

FEBRUARY 24.

"Sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under the law, but
under grace" (Rom. vi. 14).

The secret of Moses' failures was this: "The law made nothing perfect, but
the bringing in of a better hope did." And this was why his life work also
came short of full realization. He saw but entered not the Promised Land.
The founder of the law had to be its victim, and his life and death might
demonstrate the inability of the law to lead any man into the Promised
Land. The very fact, that it was for so slight a fault that Moses lost his
inheritance, makes all the more emphatic the solemn sentence of the law.
"Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in
the Book of the Law to do them."

But to the glory of the grace of God we can add that what the law could
not do for Moses the Gospel did; and he who could not pass over the Jordan
under the old dispensation is seen on the very heights of Hermon with the
Son of Man, sharing His Transfiguration glory, and talking of that death
on Calvary to which be owed his glorious destiny.

That grace we have inherited under the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

FEBRUARY 25.

"I am the vine, ye are the branches" (John xv. 5).

How can I take Christ as my Sanctifier, or Healer? is a question that we
are constantly asked. It is necessary first of all that we get into the
posture of faith. This has to be done by a definite and voluntary act, and
then maintained by a uniform habit. It is just the same as the planting of
a tree. You must put it in the soil by a definite act, and then you must
let it stay put and remain settled in the ground until the little roots
have time to fix themselves and begin to draw the sustenance from the
soil. There are two stages, the definite planting and then the habitual
absorbing of moisture and nourishment from the ground. The root fibers
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