Category: Devotion of the Day

Prepared Places for Prepared People

I go to prepare a place for you.
John 14:2

Be ye also ready.
Matthews 24:44

Even in this present world there is always “room at the top,” and the man who prepares himself will find a place prepared. There are never enough to go around and there are vacancies always for the man who can really do the job.

In the service of God the harvest is plenteous but the laborers are few, and the eyes of the Lord run to and fro looking for a man with a heart perfect toward Him. Samuel prepared himself and god made ready for Samuel. There is a place ready for you if you are ready for the place.

And there is a place hereafter for those who make ready. There is an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven. But it is reserved for those who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. God not only prepares the place, He prepares His people for the place.

“Lord, prepare me for what Thou art preparing for me.”

The Liberty of the Lord

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
II Corinthians 3:17

Of course we must understand this to mean, “Where the Spirit of the Lord is in control, there is liberty.” He indwells every believer, but not every believe has come out into the glorious liberty of the children of God. He is present in the churches, even where two or three gather in Christ’s Name, but often He is hindered. He is often resident where He is not president!

But wherever He is recognized and obeyed there is no longer a spirit of bondage. In church history the great revival periods have been the blessed liberations in which the Spirit has loosed all bonds and the church has recovered her early freedom. In local churches, what glorious liberty follows when the Spirit is Lord! Read How Christ Came to Church and transformed both A. J. Gordon and his Boston pastorate. And the individual Christian “gets loose” only when he is controlled by the Spirit. “Lord” and “liberty” may seem contradictory, but the free man is a controlled man. He has the liberty of the Lord. We have “deliberations” aplenty these days, but what we need is liberation!