January 6, 2018

CHRIST our LIFE (Col 3:4). C.H. Mackintosh writes: God looks for reality. He is not satisfied with mere words of high profession. He says to us, “My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.” He, blessed be His name, did not love us in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth; and He looks for a response from us—a clear response, full, and distinct; a response coming out of a life of good works, a life yielding mellow clusters of “the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God” (Php 1:11).…High truth on the lips and low practice in the life is one of the crying evils of this our day. We talk of grace, but fail in…the plainest moral duties in our daily private life. May the Lord, in His infinite goodness, stir up all our hearts to more thorough earnestness, in the pursuit of good works, so that we may more fully “adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things” (Titus 1:10).