[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0714":3},"JULY 14\r\nBind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar (Psalm 118.27).\r\nIs not this altar inviting thee? Shall we not ask to be bound to it\r\n\r\nthat we may never be able to start back from our attitude of\r\nconsecration? There are times when life is full of roseate light, and\r\nwe choose the Cross; at other times, when the sky is grey, we shrink from it. It is well to be bound\r\nWilt Thou bind us, most blessed Spirit and enamor us with the\r\nCross, and let us never leave it? Bind us with the scarlet cord of redemption, and the gold cord of love, and the silver cord of\r\nAdvent-hope, so we will not go back from it or wish for another lot than to be the humble partners with our Lord in His pain and\r\nsorrow!\r\nThe horns of the altar invite thee. Wilt thou come? Wilt thou dwell ever in a spirit of resigned humility, and give thyself wholly to\r\nthe Lord? --Selected.\r\nThe story is told of a colored brother who, at a camp meeting, tried to give himself to God. Every night at the altar he\r\nconsecrated himself; but every night before he left the meeting,\r\nthe devil would come to him and convince him that he did not feel any different and therefore he was not consecrated.\r\nAgain and again he was beaten back by the adversary. Finally, one evening he came to the meeting with an axe and a big stake. After  consecrating himself, be drove the stake into the ground just where he had knelt As he was leaving the building, the devil came to him   as usual and tried to make him believe that it was all a farce.\r\nAt once he went back to the stake and, pointing to it said, \"Look\r\nhere, Mr. Devil, do you see that stake? Well, that's my witness\r\nthat God has forever accepted me.\" Immediately the devil left him, and he had no further doubts on the subject. --The Still Small\r\nVoice.\r\nBeloved, if you are tempted to doubt the finality of your\r\nconsecration, drive a slake down somewhere and let it be your   witness before God and even the devil that you have settled the question forever.\r\nAre you groping for a blessing, Never getting there?\r\nListen to a word in season, Get somewhere.\r\nAre you struggling for salvation By your anxious prayer?\r\nStop your struggling, simply trust, and- Get somewhere.\r\nDoes the answer seem to linger To your earnest prayer?\r\nTurn your praying into praise, and- Get somewhere.\r\nYou will never know His fulness Till you boldly dare\r\nTo commit your all to Him, and-\r\nGet somewhere. --Songs of the Spirit.",1783499793207]