live. Some people live in an
atmosphere of thought. Their faces are thoughtful, minds intellectual.
They live in their ideas, their conceptions of truth, their tastes, and
esthetic nature. Some people, again, live in their animal nature, in the
lusts of the flesh and eye, the coarse, low atmosphere of a sensuous life,
or something worse. Some, again, live in a world of duty. The
predominating feature of their life is conscience, and it carries with it
a certain shadowy fear that takes away the simple freedom and gladness of
life, but there is a rectitude, and uprightness, a strictness of purpose,
and of conduct which cannot be gainsaid or questioned.

But Christ bids us live in an atmosphere of love. "As My Father has loved
Me, so have I loved you; continue ye in My love." In the original it is,
"Live in My love." Love is the atmosphere that He would have us ever live
in, that is, believing that He ever loves us, and claiming His sweet
approval and tender regard. This is a life of love.

MARCH 16.

"The Lord will give grace and glory" (Ps. lxxxiv. 11).

The Lord will give grace and glory. This word _glory_ is very difficult to
translate, define and explain; but there is something in the spiritual
consciousness of the quickened Christian that interprets it. It is the
overflow of grace; it is the wine of life; it is the foretaste of heaven;
it is a flash from the Throne and an inspiration from the heart of God
which we may have and in which we may live. "The glory which Thou hast
given Me I have given them," the Master prayed for us. Let us take it and
live in it. David used to say, "Wake up my glory." Ask God to wake up your
glory and enable you to mount up with wings as eagles, to dwell on high
and sit with Christ in the heavenly places.

Mounting up with wings as eagles,
Waiting on the Lord we rise,
Strength exchanging, life renewing,
How our spirit heavenward flies.
Then our springing feet returning,
Tread the pathway of the saint,
We shall run and not be weary,
We shall walk and never faint.

MARCH 17.

"He hath remembered His covenant forever" (Ps. cv. 8).

So long as you struggle under law, that is by your own effort, sin shall
have dominion over you: but the moment you step from under the shadow of
Sinai, throw yourself upon the simple grace of Christ and His free and
absolute gift of righteousness, and take Him to be to you what He has
pledged Himself to be, your righteousn