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Daily Devotionals
Bowen's Daily Meditations
" Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power." -- Psalms 110:3.
Voluntarily, heartily following thy banners; volunteering to yield their substance, to forsake their hearths, to fight the good fight of faith. In that day there will be no constraint or distraint; no legal enactments to maintain a ministry; no political alliance, no dependence on the state. The willingness of Christ’s people will afford all the scope that is requisite for the manifestation of Christ’s power. Then shall be heard a loud voice exclaiming, " Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ." The great dragon, that old serpent, is cast out, when there is no longer aught intermediate between Christ and his people: when his servants are willing to recognize him as their own Master.
Oh, reader! Brother or sister, hast thou anything of the spirit that animated Isaiah in the hour when he said, "Here am I, send me?" How few there are that have wills like the will of Christ. How difficult it is to find a workman for Christ when the work is at all difficult. How long must we advertise for a missionary to go out into the highways and hedges, that he may constrain men to come in. But when the work is of a less trying character, the emoluments greater, how many candidates we have. Oh, what an unwilling age it is, with all its boasted piety. All the world’s promises must be mingled with the promises of Christ, in order to induce Christians, what we call Christians, to do some special work for Christ. Christ and the king must go into partnership, then men will enlist under the banners that are called by kingly courtesy the banners of Christ. Oh, the dread blindness that has fallen upon us all. When, oh, when shall there be found a willing people for Christ? Men that shall say with Paul, " I do this thing willingly," and give proof of what they say? A Church voluntarily contributing, laboring, preaching, abstaining, and in a word, accomplishing all the functions of a Church, unconstrained, and purely because Christ wills it?
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