JANUARY FOURTEEN 

 

 

 

John 1: 39. And they abode with him that day. 

 

            WE would give a great deal if we could know where he dwelt. How eagerly we would seize upon every trivial incident in his daily life; what he ate, where he slept, what he said and did. Yet if we knew all these, we might lose him in the midst of them. ‘‘They abode with him that day.” In the days to come, he would abide with them, in Capernaum or Jerusalem or Bethany.  Now they abode with him. He furnished the food, the guest 

chamber, the water for their weary feet. They were the unwitting guests of the Son of God. 

 

            The Lord still has his abiding place, to which he calls us, saying, “Come and see!” Apart from the stress and strife of our daily toil, we may abide this very hour in the guest chamber which he has prepared for us. If we but humbly seek him, we surely shall find his dwelling in our hearts and ‘‘in the secret of his presence”’ our souls shall delight to hide. My dwelling place may be never so humble but he will gladly abide with me. Dare I be indifferent to his gracious invitation to dwell with him in the secret places of the Most High? 

            The King’s invitation is a command. I will be his obedient subject to-day. 

 

 

 

PRAYER

Thou whom I have oft besought, abide with me! Wilt thou not let me this day abide with thee?