Fragments

THE specters of long buried hours
Throng round me,-thick and fast;-
" The might have been " of life is lost
In the unreturning past.

How surely do these lines apply to a waster of life! Insupportably melancholy would they be if there were not the great Repairer of breaches to look to. But humbled in his retrospect as the spendthrift of life must be,-if he come to Christ all will be well; well for him in eternity, well forever and ever. Well, according to God; and well according to the thoughts of the renewed hearts of saints. Himself, too, shall be able to say, even in time, "It is well!"
Fragments
Circumstances are the looking-glasses which show us where we are.
Circumstances are the molds which determine the shape which grace has to take.
The link of eternal life can never be broken; but the link of communion may be snapped by a look of the eye.
God seems to rise higher as man falls lower. ANTICHRIST.
Fragments
How little can we say as Christ could, "I live by every word of God," everything in His moral nature being the expression of that word.
Does everything in you so flow from God, that your minds are merely channels of His word? That is Christian life. Is your life spent either in looking to God, or in coming forth from God? That is Christian. life.-- Or, how far are you going on` merely holding your head just above water, that you may not be drowned, and may breathe the fresh air of heaven enough to preserve life?
Fragments
WHAT am I committed to do to-day? But one thing can I remember, and one thing only, viz., to live so as to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. My power to do this is in His Spirit, who has taken up His abode in me, making me a temple of the Holy Ghost. For I am one of those who know that He (Jesus) is now in the Father and we (believers) in Him there, and He in us down here. In us, both by faith and in the Spirit. Yes! I have been and am one that was crucified together with Christ: nevertheless. I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I live in the flesh (or body) I do live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me. Christ liveth in me! What wondrous blessedness is this, and how does it connect us. (and me, too, individually-me) with the whole circuit of the redemption which is in Christ Jesus. Crucified together with Him, dead together with Him, buried together with Him: quickened together with Him, raised up together with Him, and made sit together with Him in heavenly places; blessed there with all spiritual blessings in Him.
If I confide in God, I can wait His time. If I only see that He can help me, and that He has promised to do so; I may, according to the amount of pressure, be in haste that He should act for me; but if I confide in Him, I can wait, for I know that He will do it in the very best time, and in the very best way.
God states to me what He will do before I experience it Experience only confirms to me what He has told me. I do not wait for experience to find it out. He commits Himself to me, and invites me to prove Him.
The one who serves without sitting at the feet of Christ does what he thinks right, but that may not be what Christ likes best. If I sit at His feet first, I know what He likes best; my service is according to His mind, and is not merely measured by my own conscience.