Daily Affirmations - Day 6 - Redeeming the Time - A Cup of Cold Water

Day 6: A cup of cold water

A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed

And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is My disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward” (Matthew 10:42).

Nothing is too small to do out of purest fervent love for Christ. Love is keen-eyed and will find many little things to do for Jesus in the busiest days of life. Every act of our life leads to God or from God. The least act done in love will be rewarded.

Even [followers of Jesus], many of them, do not realize this fact as they should. They do not stop to think that their acts, one by one, day after day are making an eternal destiny for them. Every act goes toward building that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Your soul, dear saint, is going to inhabit forever the home you are building out of the little acts of everyday life. The more love we put into the small deed, the greater will be the reward.

We must have a care, however, not to do these deeds for reward’s sake, but for love’s sake. Little sacrifices of the flesh for Christ’s sake makes the act beautiful in His sight. Doing things for humanity’s sake is commendable, but doing them for Christ’s sake is infinitely more so.

Many of us need greater love for Christ; love that will move us to please the Lord in all we think and say and do throughout the whole of the day; love that will cause us to eat and drink to His glory.

~ Charles E. Orr

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How I praise Thee, precious Savior,

That Thy love laid hold of me;

Thou hast saved and cleansed and filled me

That I might Thy channel be.

Refrain:

Channels only, blessed Master,

But with all Thy wondrous pow’r

Flowing through us, Thou canst use us

Every day and every hour.

Just a channel full of blessing,

To the thirsty hearts around,

To tell out Thy full salvation,

All Thy loving message sound.

Emptied that Thou shouldest fill me,

A clean vessel in Thy hand;

With no pow’r but as Thou givest

Graciously with each command.

Witnessing Thy pow’r to save me,

Setting free from self and sin;

Thou who bought me to possess me,

In Thy fullness, Lord, come in.

Jesus, fill now with Thy Spirit

Hearts that full surrender know,

That the streams of living water

From our inner man may flow.

~ Mary E. Maxwell ~ pub. 1900

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