Bless
His Name!
"Here speaks the Comforter, Light of the straying,
Hope of the penitent, Advocate sure,
Joy of the desolate, tenderly saying,
'Earth has no sorrow My grace cannot cure.'"
"HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST SINCE YE BELIEVED?"
XXI.
THE OVERFLOWING BLESSING.
"Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon
you."
THE children of Israel were instructed by Moses to give tithes of
all they had to the Lord, and in return God promised to richly
bless them, making their fields and vineyards fruitful and
causing their flocks and herds to safely multiply. But they
became covetous and unbelieving, and began to rob God by
withholding their tithes, and then God began to withhold His
blessing from them.
But still God loved and pitied them, and sent to them again and
again by His prophets; and finally by the prophet Malachi He
said: "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there
may be meat in Mine house, and prove Me now herewith, saith the
Lord of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and
pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to
receive it" (Malachi iii. 10).
He promised to make their barns overflow, if they would be
faithful, if they would pay their tithes and discharge their
obligations to Him.
Now, this overflow of barns and granaries is a type of
overflowing hearts and lives when we give ourselves fully to God,
and the blessed Holy Ghost comes in, and Jesus becomes all and in
all to us.
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