Come Ye Apart
I have a small red-covered book written by J.R. Miller entitled Come Ye Apart. It is a little daily devotional book first published in 1890. I have enjoyed reading it from time to time, and finding important, helpful truth. I was looking at the preface the other day and was struck by the timeliness of his thoughts. I trust they will speak to your heart as they did mine.
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“Life is hard for most of us; at least, it is hard to live nobly, grandly, purely, Christianly. We can do so only by getting a great deal of help from Christ. We need, therefore, daily to heed His invitation, “Come ye apart.” In communion with Him we shall receive strength and blessing to enable us to fulfil our mission of obedience and ministry in His name. We shall rob ourselves, therefore, of Divine anointing, of Divine help if we do not make room in our busiest days for quiet retreats from noise and strife – apart with Christ, where we may sit at His feet to hear His words… to absorb His spirit, for the refreshing and transforming of our own lives.”
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May we each take that much needed time today – to come apart and be with Christ.
