The Arbour

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Posted on 19 Jan 2024 by fertiileground

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The Arbour

2024 January 19

Morning

Scripture

“I sought him, but I found him not.” — Son_3:1

Tell me where you have lost the company of Christ, and I will tell you the place to find him. Have you lost Christ in the closet by restraining prayer? Then it is there you must look and find him. Did you lose Christ by sin? You will find Christ in no other way but by giving up the sin and seeking the Holy Spirit to mortify the member in which the lust dwells. Did you lose Christ by neglecting the Scriptures? You must find Christ in the Scriptures.

Arbour of Ease

It is a true proverb, “Look for a thing where you dropped it, it is there.” So, look for Christ where you lost him, for He has not gone away. But it is challenging work to go back for Christ. Bunyan tells us that the pilgrim found the piece of the road back to the Arbour of Ease, where he lost his roll, the hardest he had ever travelled. Twenty miles onward is easier than going one mile back for the lost evidence.

Precious Friend

Take care, when you find your Master, to cling close to him. But how is it you have lost him? One would have thought you would never have parted with such a precious friend, whose presence is so sweet, whose words are so comforting, and whose company is so dear to you!

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Seek Him

How is it that you did not watch Him every moment for fear of losing sight of him? Yet, since you have let him go, what mercy you are seeking Him even though you mournfully groan, “O that I knew where I might find him!” Go on seeking Him, for it is dangerous to be without your Lord.

Without Christ you are like a sheep without its shepherd; like a tree without water at its roots; like a sere leaf in the tempest-not bound to the tree of life. With your whole heart seek him, and He will be found of you: –

Pray

Only give yourself thoroughly up to the search, and verily, you shalt yet discover him to your joy and gladness.

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Pilgrim’s Progress

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Evening

Scripture

“Then opened He their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures.” — Luk_24:45

Our Lord Alone

He whom we viewed last evening as opening Scripture, we here perceive opening the understanding. In the first work, he has many fellow labourers, but in the second he stands alone; many can bring the Scriptures to the mind, but the Lord alone can prepare the mind to receive the Scriptures. Our Lord Jesus differs from all other teachers; they reach the ear, but he instructs the heart; they deal with the outward letter, but he imparts an inward taste for the truth, by which we perceive its savour and spirit.

Strengthened by the Master

The most unlearned men become ripe scholars in the school of grace when the Lord Jesus by his Holy Spirit unfolds the Kingdom’s mysteries to them and grants the divine anointing by which they are enabled to behold the invisible. Happy are we if we have had our understandings cleared and strengthened by the Master! How many men of profound learning are ignorant of eternal things!

They know the killing letter of revelation, but its killing spirit they cannot discern; they have a veil upon their hearts which the eyes of carnal reason cannot penetrate. Such was our case a little time ago; we who now see were once utterly blind; the truth was to us as beauty in the dark, a thing unnoticed and neglected.

Jesus’ College

Had it not been for the love of Jesus we should have remained to this moment in utter ignorance, for without his gracious opening of our understanding, we could no more have attained to spiritual knowledge than an infant can climb the Pyramids, or an ostrich fly up to the stars.

Jesus’ College is the only one in which God’s truth can be really learned; other schools may teach us what is to be believed, but Christ alone can show us how to believe it. Let us sit at the feet of Jesus, and by earnest prayer call in his blessed aid that our dull wits may grow brighter, and our feeble understandings may receive heavenly things.

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