Daily Devotional Readings - Booklet Three - May and June

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Daily Devotional Readings – Taken from the Works of Robert Murray M’Cheyne
Booklet Three — May and June

May First

Partakers of one grace
“He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together” John 4:36.
[“He that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.”] Christian friends are sweet to the Christian. Those that are sharers of our spiritual secrets, those who mingle prayer with us before the throne, those who never forget us when within the veil — oh, there is something cheering in the very light of their kindly eye! It is an intercourse of which the world knows nothing. We have them in our heart, inasmuch as they are partakers of one grace, washed in one fountain, filled with the same Spirit, having one heart, members one of another.

May Second

Satan keeps me from it
“But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me” John 15:26.
I ought to study the Comforter more — His Godhead, His love, His almightiness. I have found by experience that nothing sanctifies me so much as meditating on the Comforter, as John 14:16 “And I will pray the Father, and He shall give me another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever.” And yet how seldom I do this! Satan keeps me from it. I am often like those men who said, They knew not if there be any Holy Ghost … I ought never to forget that my body is dwelt in by the Third Person of the Godhead. The very thought of this should make me tremble …