DEVOTIONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 115, 13 April 1940, Page 12

DEVOTIONAL

THE PRAYER TRACK. The native Christians in a small West African village had no privacy i lor prayer in their huts; so every Christian used to make off into tho hush, away behind his hut, to have times of prayer with God. Behind every Christian’s hut a little track became plainly visible where they went to and fro to their places of prayer. If it ever happened that the track was rather overgrown for want of use, another Christian would come and say: “Brother, there is something the matter with your track.” WHO GOD USES. Someone asked Francis of Assisi how he could accomplish so much. “This may be why,” lie said. “The Lord looked down from Heaven and said, ‘Where can I find the weakest, littlest, meanest man on earth ?’ Then He saw me and said, ‘l’ve found him. I will work through him; he won’t be proitd of it. He’ll see I am only using him because of his insignificance.’ ” PECULIAR PEOPLE. Elijah was peculiar, but lie was worth more than the hundred thousand around him. Enoch —I suppose all pointed to him; and Daniel was the most popular man Babylon ever had. When God has a great work to do, He will call some peculiar man to do it—a man who sets his back to the world and his face towards heaven like a flint. And the eyes of the Lord run to and fro to find such a one. — D. L. Moody. THE GREATEST LIFE. A life witnessing to the reality of grace and the power of Christ in a humble; earnest, consistent Godly walk is the greatest life that can l>e lived. The one thing needful is not wealth, but wisdom from Above, not glory but goodness, not success but sincerity, not honour but holiness. 1 his is the life that counts with God and at tlie Judgment Seat of Christ. “Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.”—Alfred Mathieson. THE BEST COMPANY. If you were going on a long walk, it would not seem nearlv so long nor tiresome if you had good company all the way—someone with you to talk and laugh with. Good company cheers us up. Jf wo follow Jesus we will always have the best of company. Jesus Himself will go with us and cheer us up. And when we come to the hard places He will help us along.—Olive Plants.