Days of Heaven Upon Earth Devotional for November 1

 Days of Heaven Upon Earth Devotional for November 1

“We will come unto him and make our abode with him” (John 14:23)

This idea of trying to get a holiness of your own, and then have Christ reward you for it, is not His teaching. Oh, no; Christ is the holiness; He will bring the holiness, and come and dwell in the heart forever.

When one of our millionaires purchases a lot, with an old shanty on it, he does not fix up the old shanty, but he gets a second-hand man, if he will have it, to tear it down, and he puts a mansion in its place. It is not fixing up the house that you need, but to give Christ the vacant lot, and He will excavate below our old life and build a house where He will live forever.

Now that is what we mean when we say that Christ will be the preparation for the blessing, and make way for His own approach. It is as when a great Assyrian king used to set out on a march. He did not command the people to make a road, but he sent on his own men, and they cut down the trees and filled the broken places, and leveled the mountains. So He will, if we will let Him, be the Coming King, the Author and Finisher of our faith.

Bibliography
Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843–1919) was a Canadian-born minister, born near Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. He pastored Presbyterian churches in Hamilton, Ontario; Louisville, Kentucky; and New York City. He then founded the Christian and Missionary Alliance, formed in 1897, and training programs that became Nyack College and Alliance Theological Seminary. He wrote "The Four-Fold Gospel" and more than 120 hymns, and "Days of Heaven Upon Earth" appeared in 1897. He died in Nyack, New York.

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