September 18
Daily Gleanings of the Saintly LifeNinth Wednesday after Trinity
Neither let us commit fornication. I CORINTHIANS x. 8.
TRY to set before thyself in thought, if but for a minute in the day, thy Lord's glorified Body as He arose from the dead for thee. The closed tomb could not hold it. The closed doors could not hinder its passing. It was not bounded to this earth. It came and went after the manner of a spirit. He ate and drank with them, He appeared, He vanished out of their sight, to show how His nature was above the laws of ours. What is it now? Full it is of the majesty and beauty and glory of God. And such, if we attain, are our poor bodies to be, conformed to His glorious Body. Misuse them, then, not; keep them pure by His grace, that they may be made like our Lord's. It is not long for thee to wait for harvest, every day is thy seed-time; day by day thou mayest sow that which thou shalt reap in life eternal. A day lost, wherein thou doest nothing whereby to please God, is a loss for eternity. Every day thou mayest store something for eternity. Every day thou mayest be enlarged by the grace of God to contain the love of God, yea, God Who is love for all eternity. The prize set before us is gladness itself, life, glory, peace, pleasure, bliss, sweetness, overwhelming joy, and all in one, for all shall be in God, and God in all, Himself the life, the joy of all who love.
O vision all too bright For sinful man, who still must walk in fear, Till death removes the veil and makes the vision clear.