September 5

Christ where we live and work

“Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence” (Psa. 140:13).
“One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life” (Psa. 27:4).

“One thing have I desired, that will I seek after; that I”—in my study; I, in my shop; I, in my parlor, kitchen, or nursery; I, in my studio; I, in my lecture-hall—“may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.” In our “Father’s house are many mansions.” The room that we spend most of our lives in, each of us at our tasks or our worktables, may be in our Father’s house, too; and it is only we that can secure that it shall be.

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