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“Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” — 2Pe_3:18

“Grow in grace”-not in one grace only, but in all grace. Grow in that root-grace, faith. Believe the promises more firmly than you have done. Let faith increase in fulness, constancy, simplicity. Grow also in love. Ask that your love may become extended, more intense, more practical, influencing every thought, word, and deed. Grow likewise in humility. Seek to lie very low, and know more of your own nothingness. As you grow downward in humility, seek also to grow upward -having nearer approaches to God in prayer and more intimate fellowship with Jesus. May God the Holy Spirit enable you to “grow in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour.” He who grows not in the knowledge of Jesus, refuses to be blessed. To know him is “life eternal,” and to advance in the knowledge of him is to increase in happiness. He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet. Whoever hath sipped this wine will thirst for more, for although Christ doth satisfy, yet it is such a satisfaction, that the appetite is not cloyed, but whetted. If you know the love of Jesus-as the hart panteth for the water-brooks, so will you pant after deeper draughts of his love. If you do not desire to know him better, then you love him not, for love always cries, “Nearer, nearer.” Absence from Christ is hell; but the presence of Jesus is heaven. Rest not then content without an increasing acquaintance with Jesus. Seek to know more of him in his divine nature, in his human relationship, in his finished work, in his death, in his resurrection, in his present glorious intercession, and in his future royal advent. Abide hard by the Cross, and search the mystery of his wounds. An increase of love to Jesus, and a more perfect apprehension of his love to us is one of the best tests of growth in grace.

Philippians 2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.  

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THE RESISTLESS MAGNET

 Matthew 2:1-12

What drawing power Jesus had, and has! Away from the Far East he drew these thoughtful men, on a long, tedious journey, through strange lands, without any guidebooks, but with the unerring starry guide. And he hasn’t changed. He still draws men, from East and West and every other point of the mariner’s compass, and from every point and angle of the compass of need and difficulty. Let’s hold Jesus up. Men’ll come to him. They can’t help it.

CAN YOU SING?

Luke 2:25-35

Simeon had been taking vocal lessons and practicing for a long time. He had the Master-musician for his teacher—the Holy Spirit. His ear was trained by careful listening. Expert listening is really skilled silence. He had caught the true keynote and could sing it, and sing it accurately, without flatting or sharping or sliding, hitting every note clear and true. We need more singing of this sort. And the singing-school is still open.

Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

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Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. 

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THE DECISIVE TEST

 Luke 2:8-20

It was the thing to do, what these shepherds did—go to see for themselves. The personal test is the decisive test. It is the thing: go to Jesus direct and find out for yourself. Of course, they hadn’t far to go. Neither have we. Get into a quiet corner, with the door shut, and the Book open, the knees and will bent, and you’ll find out for yourself the reality of Jesus for your life and your problems.

Joel 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

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THE NEW CENTER OF GRAVITY

 Luke 2:1-7

The promise has become a person. Prophecy has taken human form. The old pages are full of someone coming. In these newer leaves he has come, actually come. With all the humanness of a mother’s expectancy become a thrilling experience, of a father’s protecting care, of a babe’s wondrous face and presence, aye, of cramped quarters and a world busily, noisily hurrying by unnoticing, unappreciative, He has come who yet will be the world’s center of spirit gravity.

2 Corinthians 13:13 All the saints salute you.

Think about these questions as you meditate on the verse. What does this verse teach me? How does this verse apply to my Life?