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The Royal Path, May 15
Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that
I desire beside thee.
Psalm 73:25
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The soul that cherishes the love of Christ is full of freedom, light, and
joy in Christ. In such a soul there are no divided thoughts. The whole
man yearns after God. He goes not to men for counsel, to know what is
duty, but to the Lord Jesus, the source of all wisdom. He searches the
Word of God that he may find out what standard has been set up.
Can we ever find a surer guide than the Lord Jesus? True religion is
embodied in the Word of God and consists in being under the guidance
of the Holy One in thought, word, and deed. He who is the way, the
truth, and the life takes the humble, earnest, wholehearted seeker and
says, Follow Me. He leads him in the narrow way to holiness and heaven.
Christ has opened this way for us at great cost to Himself. We are not
left to stumble our way along in darkness. Jesus is at our right hand,
proclaiming, I am the way. And all who decide to follow the Lord fully
will be led in the royal path, yea more, the divine path cast up for the
ransomed of the Lord to walk in.
The more we learn of Christ through His Word, the more we feel our
need of Him in our experience. We should not rest until we can rest in
wearing the yoke of Christ and lifting His burdens. The more faithful
we are in service to Him, the more we shall love Him, the more we shall
magnify Him. Every duty, large or small, that we perform, will be done
with faithfulness, and as we follow on to know the Lord the greater will
be our desire to glorify Him.
We are individually now testifying to the world of the power of the
grace of Christ in the transformation of human character from glory to
glory, from character to character. In beholding Christ our pattern, who
is pure and holy and undefiled, we are being prepared for the society of
the heavenly angels. If Christ is to be our head and Prince in the heavenly
courts, it becomes us to inquire, What is Christ to us now? Can we say as
we contemplate our Redeemer, “Whom have I in heaven but thee? and
there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee”?
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