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Devotional: January 26th

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VICTORY THROUGH THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB

Thanks be unto God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. - 1 Corinthians 15:57

That victory is possible. The Apocalypse shows us that " there are two opposing Powers - the "beast" on the one side, and "the Lamb" on the other. These two divide the world between them in the seer’s vision. That is to say, Jesus Christ has conquered the bestial tendencies of our nature; He has conquered the selfish godlessness which is apt to cast its spells and weave its chains over us all. The Warrior-Lamb, singular and incongruous as the combination sounds, is the victor. He conquers because He is the Lamb of sacrifice; He conquers because He is the Lamb of innocence; He conquers because He is the Lamb of meekness, the gentle and, therefore, the all-victorious. By Christ we conquer. Through faith, which lays hold on His power and victory, we too may conquer. "This is the victory which overcometh the world, even our faith."

Young men and women, do not let yourselves be led away captives to the shambles by the fascinations and seductions of this poor, fleeting present. Keep your heel on the neck of the animal that is within you; take care of that selfish godlessness into which we all are tempted to fall. Listen to the trumpet-call that ought to stir your hearts, that summons you to freedom and to victory through the blood of the Lamb. And do you, by humbly clasping Him as your sacrifice, your leader, and your power, enroll yourselves amongst those who, in His own good time, shall come victorious from the " beast " and from his image.

Our Captain provides us with an inexhaustible strength, to which we may fully trust. We shall not exhaust it by any demands that we can make upon it. We shall only brighten it up, like the nails in a well-used shoe, the heads of which are polished by stumbling and scrambling over rocky roads. " Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days so shall thy strength be."

Did you ever see that electric light which is made by directing a strong stream upon two small pieces of carbon? As the electricity strikes upon these and turns their blackness into a fiery blaze, it eats away their substance as it changes them into light. But there is an arrangement in the lamp by which a fresh surface is continually being brought into the path of the beam, and so the light continues without wavering, and blazes on. The carbon is our human nature, black and dull in itself; the electric beam is the swift energy of God, which makes us light in the Lord. God does not turn people out to scramble over rough mountains with thin-soled boots on. When an Alpine climber is preparing to go away into Switzerland for rock work, the first thing he does is to get a pair of strong shoes, with plenty of iron nails in the soles of them. Each of us may be sure that if God sends us on stony paths He will provide us with strong shoes, and will not send us out on any journey for which He does not equip us well.

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