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Daily Devotionals
Our Daily Homily - Volume 2
Psalms 110:3—Thy people shall be willing in the day at thy power.
The literal rendering of the Hebrew is preferable: "Thy people shall be free-will offerings in the day of thy power." When we recall the quotations of the first verse of this psalm in the New Testament, we have no difficulty in understanding what is meant by the day of his power. It is beyond doubt the day of his ascension, of his enthronement at the right hand of the Father, and of the advent of the Holy Spirit.
Whensoever the Holy Spirit is supreme in a church there will be a free-will offering of young hearts and lives. Clad in the priestly garb of stainless purity, pouring forth from the womb of life’s young morning, they will scatter themselves over the weary earth like myriads of dewdrops on withered vegetation. The Priest-King has a wonderful fascination for youthful volunteers; and as He is so are they.
Have you become a free-will offering? There is every claim for your entire and devoted service. You have been already included in the Father’s gift to the Son; but you must come to Him for yourself. The world has yet to learn what God can do with a soul that is entirely given up to Him. Let Him have your life to shape and mould it, to inspire and infill, to send forth on his errands, to commission for his service. There are no pressed men in our Masters army—all are volunteers. Offer your will to God; say you are willing to be made willing: He can make you willing in this day of his power, as iron is bent in the fierce flame.
"In full and glad surrender we give ourselves to Thee,
Thine utterly, and only, and evermore to be!
O Son of God, who lovest us, we will be Thine alone,
And all we are, and all we have, shalt henceforth be thine own!"
