"The Spot of His Children"

[Daily Devotional]

"The Spot of His Children" 

     Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that
people, whose God is the Lord. Ps. 144:15.  

     I will thank the Lord my God for His great goodness and mercy and
love expressed to the human family. I am impressed we should cultivate
cheerfulness; and what does this do? It reveals to the world the peace
and comfort that it is our privilege to claim. It is not honoring our
Lord and Saviour to carry a shade of gloom. Many do this. . . .  

     "Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the
words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall
distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the
showers upon the grass; because I will publish the name of the Lord:
ascribe ye greatness unto our God. He is the Rock, his work is perfect:
for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just
and right is he. They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the
spot of his children" (Deut. 32:1-5).  

     "Not the spot of his children." They do not possess the character
of the sons and daughters of God; do not in spirit, in words, in
actions, appear as the people who love God and keep His commandments.
"Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy
father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established
thee?" "For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his
inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling
wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the
apple of his eye" (verses 6, 9, 10).  

     The tenderness of God to His people, His unceasing care for them,
the riches of the wisdom of the methods He has taken to lead them to
Himself, demand our gratitude offerings expressed in most earnest
devotion to serve Him with all humility of mind and contrition of soul.
The Lord is gracious, and He would have His people represent His
loving-kindness by acknowledgment in cheerful thanksgiving to God. All
who appreciate the favors of God will be a happy people.  

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