March 19
BECOMING FIT FOR GLORY
"The Lord will give grace and glory" Ps. 84:11
Grace is what we need just now, and it is to be had freely. What
can be freer than a gift? Today we shall receive sustaining,
strengthening, sanctifying, satisfying grace. He has given daily grace
until now, and as for the future, that grace is still sufficient. If
we have but little grace the fault must lie in ourselves; for the Lord
is not straitened, neither is He slow to bestow it in abundance. We
may ask for as much as we will and never fear a refusal. He giveth
liberally and upbraideth not.
The Lord may not give gold, but He will give grace: He may not give
gain, but He will give grace. He will certainly send us trial, but He
will give grace in proportion thereto. We may be called to labor, and
to suffer, but with the call there will come all the grace required.
What an AND is that in the text -- "and glory!" We do not need
glory yet, and we are not yet fit for it; but we shall have it in due
order. After we have eaten the bread of grace, we shall drink the wine
of glory. We must go through the holy --which is grace, to the holiest
of all -- which is glory. These words "and glory" are enough to make a
man dance for joy. A little while -- a little while, and then glory
forever!