Thomas answered and said unto Him, My Lord and my God. Joh_20:28

“Give Me to drink.” How many of us are set upon Jesus Christ slaking our thirst when we ought to be satisfying Him? We should be pouring out now, spending to the last limit, not drawing on Him to satisfy us. “Ye shall be witnesses unto Me”-that means a life of unsullied, uncompromising, and unbribed devotion to the Lord Jesus, a satisfaction to Him wherever He places us.

      Beware of anything that competes with loyalty to Jesus Christ. The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him. It is easier to serve than to be drunk to the dregs. The one aim of the call of God is the satisfaction of God, not a call to do something for Him. We are not sent to battle for God, but to be used by God in His battlings. Are we being more devoted to service than to Jesus Christ?

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I praise Thee for that word – “like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him.”  How I realize that I owe nothing to Thy severity but all to Thy love.  Oh, that Thy love and gentleness and patience toward me were expressed through me to others