Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Think about these questions as you meditate on the verse. What does this verse teach me? How does this verse apply to my Life?
GOD WITHIN MAKING MUSIC
Philippians 4:4-9
Peace is a heart word. It’s more. It’s a heart thing. And the thing’s immensely more than the word. The experience is so much more than can be told. And the heart controls life and mood and service. Peace is God himself within making music, holding off all storm and disturbance and discord. He comes in through the only door to the heart, the door of our glad consent to his unstinted presence and control.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
