"Come Ye Apart": Daily Exercises in Prayer and Devotion

"COME YE APART"Daily Exercises inPrayer and DevotionAn excerpt from the beginning of the year:
January 1.
MY presence shall go with Thee, and I shall give Thee rest.
-Exodus 33:14.
Where is my road going to lead? Will it be green lane or stony steep? Will it be clear and legible as a turnpike, or faint and doubtful like an uncertain track across the moor? I do not know. But our text entwines the gracious offer of a great Companion for the unknown and changing road. It promises the destruction of loneliness but not the dispersal of the mist.
My Father God, Thy Presence makes everywhere a royal road. Thy companionship always leads to the Holy City. Every day's journey is a day's march nearer home. Help me to trust and not be afraid. For Christ's sake. Amen.
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January 2.
AND you, being dead in your sins . . . hath He quickened together with Christ.
-Colossians 2:13.
This is the resurrection of the soul. It is her spiritual spring-time. The Lord Jesus visits us in our deadness, and lo, the winter is over, and God makes the flowers appear on the earth, and the time of the singing of birds has come.
Heavenly Father, I pray that I may rise in Christ Jesus into newness of life. If I am already risen let me rise into loftier glory. Give me an eager spirit which will not rest until I awake in the likeness of Christ. For His sake. Amen....