December 4

His Father's name written in their foreheads.

REV. xiv. 1.

Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out; and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God; and I will write upon him my new name.—REV. iii. 12.

WHO would not rejoice in the grace qualifying him, the honor attaching to him, and the usefulness that would justify him in being a pillar in the temple of God, in a temple wide as the sanctified universe, and so all-inclusive of what is essentially divine as to admit of no humanly builded temple within itself?

He shall be this pillar, and upon him shall be inscribed the threefold name "of my God, the City of my God, and my new Name,"—the first a general piety, the second loyalty to the kingdom, the third affectionate devotion to the personal Redeemer; the first Faith, the second Hope, the third Love. Upon him that overcometh shall this threefold, perfect name be written, identifying him as the Lord's possession and servant, and guaranteeing continuous watch, guidance, and preservation of him: all which in turn shall give him further emboldenment, stimulation, and enterprise.

All this to "him that overcometh," not in his own strength, but through faith in the indwelling Spirit and the outworking providence of Christ.

Luci's Notman

Thy nature, gracious Lord, impart;

Come quickly from above;

Write thy new name upon my heart.—

Thy new best name of Love.

C. WESLEY.