Days of Heaven Upon Earth

Devotional For

August 11

      "All the land which thou seest" (Gen. xiii. 15).
      
      The actual provisions of His grace come from the inner vision.
      
      He who puts the instinct in the bosom of yonder bird to cross the continent in search of summer sunshine in yonder Southern clime is too good to deceive it, and just as surely as He has put the instinct in its breast, so has He also put the balmy breezes and the vernal sunshine yonder to meet it when it arrives.
      
      He who gave to Abraham the vision of the Land of Promise, also said in infinite truth and love: "All the land that thou seest will I give thee." He who breathes into our hearts the heavenly hope, will not deceive or fail us when we press forward to its realization. There is nothing unfaithful in Him who has said: "If it were not so, I would have told you," and we may know that He never will deceive us nor fail us, but all that He reveals by His Holy Spirit He will make our own, as we press forward and enter into its realization.
      
      Lord, give me first the vision and then the victory. Show me all my inheritance, and then give it all to me in Christ Jesus.