Days of Heaven Upon Earth

Devotional For

August 15

      "He will guide you into all truth" (John xvi. 13).
      
      The Holy Ghost does not come to give us extraordinary manifestations, but to give its life and light, and the nearer we come to Him, the more simple will His illumination and leading be.
      
      He comes to "guide us into all truth." He comes to shed light upon our own hearts, and to show us ourselves. He comes to reveal Christ, to give, and then to illumine, the Holy Scriptures, and to make Divine realities vivid and clear to our spiritual apprehension.
      
      He comes as a Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ, to "enlighten the eyes of our understanding, that we may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power."
      
      Spirit of Power! with heavenly fire,
      Our souls endue, our tongues inspire;
          Stretch forth Thy mighty Hand,
      Thy Pentecostal gifts restore,
      The wonders of Thy power once more
          Display in every land.