t,
I am waiting, sweetly waiting, on the Lord;
I am drinking, of His fulness; I am sitting at His feet;
I am hearkening to the whispers of His word.

MARCH 2.

"That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost"
(II. Tim. i. 14).

God gives to us a power within which will hold our hearts in victory and
purity. "That good thing which was committed unto thee, keep by the Holy
Ghost which dwelleth in us." It is the Holy Ghost; and when any thought or
suggestion of evil arises in our breast, the quick conscience can
instantly call upon the Holy Ghost to drive it out, and He will expel it
at the command of faith or prayer, and keep us as pure as we are willing
to be kept. But when the will surrenders and consents to evil, the Holy
Ghost will not expel it. God, then, requires us to stand in holy
vigilance, and He will do exceeding abundantly for us as we hold fast that
which is good, and He will also be in us a spirit of vigilance, showing us
the evil and enabling us to detect it, and to bring it to Him for
expulsion and destruction.

"O Spirit of Jesus fill us until we shall have room only for Thee!"

O, come as the heart-searching fire,
O, come as the sin-cleansing flood;
Consume us with holy desire,
And fill with the fulness of God.

MARCH 3.

"Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous;
nevertheless afterward" (Heb. xii. 11).

God seems to love to work by paradoxes and contraries. In the
transformations of grace, the bitter is the base of the sweet, night is
the mother of day, and death is the gate of life.

Many people are wanting power. Now, how is power produced? The other day
we passed the great works where the trolley engines are supplied with
electricity. We heard the hum and roar of countless wheels, and we asked
our friend, "How do they make the power?" "Why," he said, "just by the
revolution of those wheels and the friction they produce. The rubbing
creates the electric current."

It is very simple, and a trifling experiment will prove it to any one.

And so when God wants to bring more power into your life, He brings more
pressure. He is generating spiritual force by hard rubbing. Some of us
don't like it. Some of us don't understand, and we try to run away from
the pressure, instead of getting the power and using it to rise above the
painful cause.

MARCH 4.

"They were all filled with the Holy Ghost" (Acts ii.