sympathy of some fellow worm!

MARCH 13.

"Keep yourselves in the love of God" (Jude 21).

Some time ago, we were enjoying a surpassingly beautiful sunset. The
western skies seemed like a great archipelago of golden islands, the
masses in the distance rising up into vast mountains of glory. The hue of
the sky was so gorgeous that it seemed to reflect itself upon the whole
atmosphere, as we looked back from the west to the eastern horizon. The
whole earth was radiant with glory. The fields had changed to strange, red
richness, and the earth seemed bathed with the dews of heaven.

And so it is, when the love of God shines through all our celestial sky,
it covers everything below, and life becomes radiant with its light.
Things that were hard become easy. Things that were sharp become sweet.
Labor loses its burden, and sorrow becomes silver-lined with hope and
gladness.

There are two ways of living in His love. One is constant trust, and the
other is constant obedience, and His own Word gives the message for both.
"If ye keep My commandments ye shall live in My love, even as I keep My
Father's, and live in His love."

MARCH 14.

"We are His workmanship" (Eph. ii. 10).

Christ sends us to serve Him, not in our own strength, but in His
resources and might. "We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto
good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them." We do
not have to prepare them; but to wear them as garments, made to order for
every occasion of our life.

We must receive them by faith and go forth in His work, believing that He
is with us, and in us, as our all sufficiency for wisdom, faith, love,
prayer, power, and every grace and gift that our work requires. In this
work of faith we shall have to feel weak and helpless, and even have
little consciousness of power. But if we believe and go forward, He will
be the power and send the fruits.

The most useful services we render are those which, like the sweet fruits
of the wilderness, spring from hours of barrenness. "I will bring her into
the wilderness and I will give her vineyards from thence." Let us learn to
work by faith as well as walk by faith, then we shall receive even the end
of our faith, the salvation of precious souls, and our lives will bear
fruit which shall be manifest throughout all eternity.

MARCH 15.

"Continue ye in My love" (John xv. 9).

Many atmospheres there are in which we may