May 14

I live by the faith of the Son of God. — GAL. ii. 20.

As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. — JOHN vi. 57, 58.

A WONDERFUL passage upon which the soul can feed for hours. It teaches that God is a living God manifesting himself in both the natural and spiritual world. It teaches that as Christ lives in God and God in him, and as he gains all his life and power from God, so the Christian lives in Christ and Christ in him, and he gains all his spiritual life and power from Christ: through Christ the disciple is in union with God, and the divine life abides in his soul. Notice the conditions. As our bodies through the natural organs appropriate of nature's strength to their own vitality, so the soul by faith eats of Christ and appropriates of his atoning death to its own spiritual life, receiving of his personal love, grace, and spirit, as its food, strength, and life; and as long as we daily feed upon Christ's words, love, and death, we have not only our own powers, but the power of Christ in God to overcome, endure, be, and do all that is required of us. This fact in the darkest hours makes us brave, patient, and cheerful, for we know that as children of the King we shall be more than conquerors through him that loved us and gave himself for us.

Smith Baker.

I feed by faith on Christ; my bread, His body broken on the tree. I live in him, my living Head, Who died, and rose again for me.

J. MONTGOMERY.