"Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."—James iv. 7.

O God, Thou art from everlasting to everlasting. Loving me at the beginning, Thou hast promised to love me even unto the end. Notwithstanding all the fitful changes of my own changing heart towards Thee, there has been, and can be, no shadow of turning in Thy covenant faithfulness towards me. I am at this {76} hour the monument of Thy mercy—a living comment on the words, "Thy ways are not as man\'s ways, nor Thy thoughts as man\'s thoughts."

If I have been enabled in any degree to resist the assaults of temptation, it is all Thy doing. I am "kept by the power of God." Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul must long ere now have dwelt in silence. By the grace of God I am what I am.

Lord, indulged and cherished sin unfits me for the enjoyment of Thy service and favor. I have to lament my proneness to evil, the natural bias of my heart to that which is opposed to Thy pure and holy will. When I would do good, sin is too often present with me. I feel the power of my spiritual adversaries. If left to myself and my own unaided resources, I must often hopelessly resign the conflict.

But I rejoice to think that there is help and hope and strength at hand. I would look to Him who is now bending upon me an eye of unchanging love from the throne. All Thy ascension glories, blessed Redeemer, have not obliterated the tenderness of Thy humanity. Thou art {77} "that same Jesus;" Thou, the abiding Friend, art still left changeless among the changeable; and when Satan often............