June 16

Look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the carth.—Isaiah 45:22.

DO I look to Christ, and only to him, for salvation? Am I strong in the faith that he is both able and willing to save me, and that from him I may receive pardon for the guilt of sin, and strength to overcome its power? Am I looking away from the darkness of self, to the light that is in him: from the ever-varying frames and feelings of my own heart, to him who is the same from everlasting to everlasting?

Faith is the soul's outward, not its inward look. The object on which it fixes its eye, is not the heart's ever-varying frames, but the never-varying Christ.—BAILLIE.

Too often, and almost unconsciously, we look at the Sun of righteousness as it is reflected in our own troubled waters, rather than by an upward look to it, as it really is, in the heavens. The very reverse of this is what we should do. We should look to promises, not feelings. The latter change, while the former are like the everlasting hills, that cannot be moved.

Come, ye souls by sin afflicted, Bowed with fruitless sorrow down, By the broken law convicted, Through the cross behold the crown! Look to Jesus; Mercy flows from him alone!—J. HART.