Daily Devotionals

Bowen's Daily Meditations

Devotional: March 3rd

" The meek will he guide." - Psalms 25:9

Be content to lose the idea of thine own importance; cease to be wrapped up in the contemplation of thine own claims and rights. Be not counting on honors to be rendered thee, hour by hour, from this man and from that. Give up the vain idea that every hour owes thee an ample tribute of manifold benefits. Shrink into non-importance, and take the position of a simple servitor, whose business it is to do, to suffer, and to give thanks.

When you have become thus inconsiderable in your own regard, and have relinquished the honor which cometh from man, and are cordially willing that the gifts that adorn this present life should be withheld from you, and abundantly bestowed at your right hand and at your left; then will you become conscious that another hand is locked in yours, a friendly hand, a gracious hand, a tender, considerate, careful hand; a royal, a heavenly, nay, without disguise, a divine hand. In surrendering all self-importance you have become unspeakably important to the most exalted Being in the universe. You have entered the very path trodden by the Lord Jesus Christ. In that path you walk with God.

The secret of habitual meekness is the love of God habitually shed abroad in the heart. All pride, all avidity of worldly good, all insubmission, imply a grossly inadequate idea of the value of Christ’s love. Thou canst disdain the riches that take wings, in the consciousness of unseen wealth - untold, imperishable.

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