“For it is God which worketh in you” (Phil. ii. 13).
A day with Jesus. Let us seek its plan and direction from Him. Let us take
His highest thought and will for us in it. Let us look to Him for our
desires, ideals, expectations in it. Then shall it bring to us exceeding
abundantly above all that we can ask or think. Let Him be our Guide and
Way. Let us not so much be thinking even of His plan and way as of Him as
the Personal Guide of every moment, on whom we constantly depend to lead
our every step.
Let Him also be the sufficiency and strength of all the day. Let us never
forget the secret: “I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth
me.” Let us have Jesus Christ Himself in us to do the works, and let us
every moment fall back on Him, both to will and do in us of His good
pleasure. Let our holiness be “the law of the spirit of life in Christ
Jesus.” Let our health be the “life of Jesus manifest in our mortal
flesh.” Let our faith be “the faith of the Son of God who loved us.” Let
our peace and joy be His peace and joy. And let our service be not our
works, but the grace of Christ within us.