June 5

"Be thou their arm every morning." Isaiah 33:2.

THIS is a prayer for others. And when we repair to the throne of the heavenly grace, we should never forget our fellow-Christians. Yet those will never pray earnestly, or even sincerely, for others, who do not pray for themselves. Every believer therefore includes himself in the number of those for whom he implores the blessing, "Be thou their arm every morning."

He is made sensible of his own weakness and insufficiency. He knows, he feels, and he increasingly knows and feels his need of an arm, a divine arm, every morning.

For what purpose?