May 17 / Springs in the Valley by L.B.Cowman

May 17

To sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan… The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell. (Gen. 47:4, 6)

Did you ever come to a time of the most awful famine—spiritual famine—in your life, when there was no pasture upon which to feed? At such a time Christ Himself takes the matter for us to the throne of God. He tells God we are His own brothers. And what is the answer? “The kingdom of heaven is before thee; in the best of the kingdom make thy brethren to dwell.” Do you realize what it means to have Jesus Christ intercede for you—the Christ whom you repudiated by your own sin? Pharaoh knew not these men; but he knew Joseph, and nothing was too good for Joseph and every relative of Joseph.

We are “joint-heirs with Christ.” Because of Christ, God flings wide open the whole kingdom, and simply asks that we take its best. Out of famine—into the best that the kingdom affords! Not only that, but rulers of the King’s own property! Oh, Lord Jesus, forgive my unfaith! Open my sin-bound, self-centered eyes to the wonders of Thy love. Teach me how to receive more. The best of the kingdom: that means Thee. I take Thee, Lord, as my feast of Eternal Life. MESSAGES FOR THE MORNING WATCH

I am not the brood of the dust and sod,
Nor a shuttled thread in the loom of fate;
But the child Divine of the living God,
With eternity for my life’s estate.

I am not a sport of a cosmic night,
Nor a thing of chance that has grown to man;
But a deathless soul on my upward flight,
And my Father’s heir in His wondrous plan.
ALVA ROMANES
We are His only heirs.

Cowman, L. B. E.. Springs in the Valley (p. 151). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.