A Heavenly Partnership

[Daily Devotional]

A Heavenly Partnership 

     Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he
may exalt you in due time. 1 Peter 5:6.  

     All heaven enters into copartnership with those who come to Christ
for eternal life, submitting themselves to Him as those who have made a
surrender of all to God. God requires His servants to stand under the
blood-stained banner of Prince Emmanuel, striving in His power to keep
the principles of truth pure and uncorrupted. They must never step aside
from the path of self-denial and humility which every true Christian
must travel. As they thus cooperate with God, Christ is formed within,
"the hope of glory" (Col. 1:27). Clad in His meekness and lowliness they
find their highest joy in doing His service. Earthly ambition gives way
to a desire to serve the Master.  

     "Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but
the proud he knoweth afar off." "The sacrifices of God are a broken
spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise"
(Ps. 138:6; 51:17). Those who reveal the meek and lowly spirit of Christ
are tenderly regarded by God. Nothing is unnoticed by Him. He marks
their self-denial, their effort to uplift Christ before the world.
Though these humble workers may be looked upon with scorn by the world,
they are of great value in the sight of God. Not only the wise, the
great, the beneficent, will gain a passport into the heavenly
courts--not only the busy worker, full of zeal and restless activity.
No; the pure in heart, in whose lips there is found no guile; the poor
in spirit, who are actuated by the Spirit of an abiding Christ; the
peacemaker, whose highest ambition is to do God's will--these will gain
an abundant entrance. They are God's jewels, and will be among that
number of whom John writes, "I heard as it were the voice of a great
multitude, . . . saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth"
(Rev. 19:6). They have washed their robes, and made them white in the
blood of the Lamb. "Therefore are they before the throne of God, and
serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne
shall dwell among them" (Rev. 7:15).  

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