Thoughts for Each Day

White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 2, 1 March 1947, Page 9

Thoughts for Each Day

Prepared by a patient in Lister Hospital, Blenheim. SUNDAY: “For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Matthew’ 11:30.) A woman told me that her grandfather kept a team of bullocks, in which there were strong and weak animals. .wo weak ones could not do the work, >o a weak and strong one were yoked together. Yoke yourself to Christ — the weak and the strong. He will take the heavier part. The Christian life is not easy, but it can be lived close to Him. « MONDAY: “Stud}' to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed.” (2 Timothy 2:15.) Perhaps you feel your daily work is 'O ordinary that it can’t concern God. It may be that Monday is your washday, and what could be more humdrum than that? Making anything clean is lovely work, so do that washing unto fiod. Whatever your duty may be, do it so that you arrive at sunset a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, Jn d vou will have a sense of satisfaction that nothing else can give.

TUESDAY: “Which now of these three was neighbour unto him?” (Luke 10:36.) You don’t like the lady next door? We are not told that the good Samaritan liked the Jew who fell among thieves. He had probably never seen him before, and bad been brought up to dislike all Jews. But he was kind to him. Christianity does not ask you to love your neighbour in the wav you love your child and other dear ones, but to love your neighbour in the sense of treating her well and serving her when the need arises. WEDNESDAY: “The Eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the Everlasting arms.” (Deut. 33:27.) Notice the word “underneath.” It doesn’t matter how’ low you get, you are never too low for those arms to he underneath, bearing you up. They will last longer than any sorrow, longer than any illness, longer than this life, so take heart and rest in them.

THURSDAY: “He blessed, and brake, and gave to His disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.” (Matt. 14:19.)

Jesus made use of broken fragments to feed the people. Has your life been broken? If so, you will allow God to use the fragments, He will make you the means of feeding His people. So often a broken life means better food for others, than a life that has known no suffering. FRIDAY: “With the bread of understanding shall she feed him.” (Apocrypha.) J Have you ever read articles on “blow to keep a husband’s love?” You never read one that contained more wisdom than those nine w’ords. With understanding in the home, are health, wealth, peace, and a real happiness. I >on t think of understanding as something that comes with love. It often needs cultivating. SATURDAY: Provide things honesMn the sight of all men.” (Romans I?o w’c ever have anything we can’t afford to pay for ? Do we pretend to he something we are not? Does our saying accord with our doing? Arc we affected? All these are forms of dishonesty. Most important—do we turn an honest and critical eye upon ourselves? Honesty with ourselves is the rarest kind of all. F. C. WILSON.