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Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 297 of 392 Great Mediator, September 27 “I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire.”— Revelation 3:18 Let the solemn question come home to everyone who is a member of our churches, How am I standing before God as a professed follower of Christ? Is my light shining forth to the world in clear, steady rays? Have we as a people who have taken vows of dedication to God, preserved our union with the Source of all light? Are not the symptoms to declension and decay painfully visible among the Christian church...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 295 of 391 Long-Promised One, September 26 “I baptize with water, but there stands One among you whom you do not know.”— John 1:26 John came in the spirit and power of Elijah, to do such a work as Elijah did. If the Jews had received him, it would have been accomplished for them. But they did not receive his message. To them he was not Elijah. He could not fulfill for them the mission he came to accomplish. Many of those gathered at the Jordan had been present at the baptism of Jesus; but the sign then given had ...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 291 of 388 Great King, September 25 “He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David.”— Luke 1:32 We are to compare our characters with the infallible standard of God’s law. In order to do this, we must search the Scriptures, measuring our attainments by the Word of God. Through the grace of Christ, the highest attainments in character are possible; for every soul who comes under the molding influence of the Spirit of God, may be trans...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 289 of 387 Prince of Preachers, September 24 The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this Man!”— John 7:46 After the ordination of the disciples, Christ gave the sermon on the mount. This discourse was given to humanity to be to them the law of duty and the light of heaven, their hope and consolation in despondency. It is heaven’s benediction to the world—a voice from the throne of God. Here the Prince of preachers , the Master-teacher, utters the words that the Father gave Him to speak. He is th...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 288 of 387 Guide, September 23 Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.— Psalm 25:4 The Lord says, “Call upon Me in the day of trouble” ( Psalm 50:15 ). He invites us to present to Him our perplexities and necessities, and our need of divine help. He bids us be instant in prayer. As soon as difficulties arise, we are to offer to Him our sincere, earnest petitions. By our importunate prayers we give evidence of our strong confidence in God. The sense of our need leads us to pray earnestly, and our heavenly Fa...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 287 of 387 Solid Rock, September 22 “The LORD lives! Blessed be my Rock! Let God be exalted, The Rock of my salvation!”       — 2 Samuel 22:47 Your letters I have read with interest and sympathy. I would say your son now needs a father as he has never needed one before. He has erred; you know it, and he knows that you know it; and words that you would have spoken to him in his innocency with safety, and which would not have produced any bad results, would now seem like unkindness and be sharp as a kn...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 284 of 385 Deliverer for His People, September 21 This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.— John 2:11 The wine which Christ provided for the feast, and that which He gave to the disciples as a symbol of His own blood, was the pure juice of the grape. To this the prophet Isaiah refers when he speaks of the new wine “in the cluster,” and says, “Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it” ( Isaiah 65:8 ). It was Christ who in the Old ...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 283 of 385 Risen Saviour, September 20 “But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”— Matthew 13:23 When Christ gave His disciples the promise of the Spirit, He was nearing the close of His earthly ministry. He was standing in the shadow of the cross, with a full realization of the load of guilt that was to rest upon Him as the Sin Bearer. Before offering Himself as the sacrificial victim, ...

Jesus, Name Above All Names — Day 281 of 384 Great Exemplar, September 19 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us.— Ephesians 5:1 , 2 You may say you have been taken in and have bestowed your means upon those unworthy of your charity, and therefore have become discouraged in trying to help the needy. I present Jesus before you. He came to save fallen humanity, to bring salvation to His own nation; but they would not accept Him. They treated His mercy with insult and contempt, and at...