REFRESHMENT IN DRY PLACES

John 16:22-28

Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It’s the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sort. Joy has its springs deep down, inside. And that spring never runs dry, no matter what happens. Only Jesus gives that joy. He had joy, singing its music within, even under the shadow of the Cross. It’s an unknown word and thing except as he has sway within.

2 Corinthians 5:15  And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 

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CHOCK-FULL

Psalms 1:1-6

You can’t grow strong on “nots,” but you won’t grow strong without them. The presence of evil makes you line up and leave some things out. The best way to get and keep them out is to fill the life chock-full of the Positives. Chew the cud of the Book. Keep your roots deep in the living waters. Breathe the wholesome air of His presence. There’ll be no room for anything that oughtn’t to be there.

2 Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

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TRUE AND FAITHFUL

Matthew 5:3-10

We are not responsible for fruits in life, nor for results in service; only for keeping true in life and faithful in service—true and faithful to Him. Then he’ll flood the “blesseds” in thick and fast. We’re to practice walking on our knees, keep a sharp appetite for his food, yield to the pruning knife in his hand, and never get out of the dew and sunlight of his presence. He attends to fruits and results.

1 John 3:16  Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 

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FRUIT CULTURE

Matthew 25:14-30

The vine doesn’t try to bear grapes: it can’t help it. It drinks in dew and rain and air, eats up soil food, basks in sunlight, yields without a flinch to pruning knife, and to restraining cord, and to the acid spraying of the gardener. Then the grapes come; they must; they can’t help coming. If we’ll be as natural as the vine, and as sensible, we’ll bear grapes too. And the whole process is in that word “abide.”

Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

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THE ETERNAL QUALITY OF LIFE

John 4:4-15

Are you a “weir” Christian, or a “spring” Christian? The woman said “this well” She was thinking of a hole and a bucket and a lot of work to get the water up. Jesus really said “spring,” that is, a living, bubbling fountain that couldn’t be held down or back. It’s better to be a “well” Christian than none at all. It’s best to let Jesus be the living spring within, ever bubbling up with the eternal quality of life.

Romans 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

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