Daily Devotional for May 11
For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. Psalm 44:22
WE are to remember that we have each but one sacrifice; that it is to be rendered to the Lord day by day in the improvement of every opportunity as it comes to us, to serve Him and His. We are to remember that while it consists of many little sacrifices, some of them too small to mention or even to consider, nevertheless it will require all of these to complete the one sacrifice which we made at the beginning of our induction into His family. When we gave our wills, we gave our all; and any holding back in any of the little affairs of life--any refusal to sacrifice that which we think would please the Lord--is a keeping back of that much of what we have devoted to Him. Z.'03-408 R3266:6
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It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 20:35
OUR Lord Jesus Christ is the grandest example of self-denial in the interests of others. He was rich in the possession of the spiritual nature with all its glory and honor. Yet for our sakes he became poor, taking the human nature in order that he might redeem mankind. To this end he surrendered life itself at Calvary, that through his sacrifice we might become rich--possessed of divine favor and the riches of divine grace in Christ--even joint-heirship with him who is now our exalted Lord at the right hand of divine Majesty. But to attain this joint-heirship with him we must study to be like him, to have his Spirit and to share with others whatever he may give us of either temporal or spiritual favor--either to feed or to clothe others (particularly those of the household of faith) temporally or spiritually, as circumstances may dictate. `Z'16-219` R5827:6 (Hymn 191)
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