SHAPING THE CHILD

Mark 10:13-16; Matthew 18:1-6

Children and women were commonly despised when Jesus came. He revealed their true worth and place. We need the children as really as they need us. Before the hurt of sin has come to them they teach us purity and simplicity, trust and honesty. They absorb their surroundings. Children will be just what their elders are, whom they touch daily. It’s only as our lives are yielded wholly to Jesus’ control that our children can come into their rightful heritage.

1 Peter 2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. 

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SHOES OFF, AND HAT, TOO

Mark 10:1-12

Sin steals away reverence, and would make the finest things cheap and common. Love hallows everything it touches—real love. It reveals the sacredness of life’s relationships. It puts a touch of tender awe, of thoughtful reverence, on the sacred intimacies, the holy privacies, of love and home and daily contacts, that hallows and enriches these, and holds them true to what should be. Reverence deepens as we see the working of God in nature’s processes.

1 Peter 2:15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:  

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LIFE AT FLOOD-TIDE

Mark 10:17-31

A swift stream, at flood, frequently changes its channel, leaving the old, cutting out an entirely new bed. The Holy Spirit floods the life with love when he is allowed sway, Rom_5:5, literal meaning. The old standards that can’t stand the wash of this flood are left behind; new standards are set, flood-tide standards, with rich fertilizing silt, till we wonder how we ever lived the old way. And the upward tug of the new standards affects everything.

1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 

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THE REAL HUMAN

1Corinthians 13:1-13

Love is a fire. It burns out the impurities, puts warmth in the heart and a gentle glow in the life, and tempers all to the best. God is love. Man is love, too, when true to the image in which he was made.

Jesus is love in human garb. To let Jesus in as a passion, the burning passion, is to have selfishness, with all its brood, burned out, and the true ideal made real. Then we live the life that blesses other lives.

Psalm 119:143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.   

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UNCONSCIOUS GREATNESS

Luke 22:24-30

True greatness never finds out that it is great. It is too much taken up thinking of others. When it finds out that it is great it ceases to be great. If you have discovered that you’re humble, then you may know that you’re not humble. For humility is so absorbed with the dear God, and with others, that it never knows it is humble. But we’ll never understand this till we’ve seen the face of Jesus.

Psalm 119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. 

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