Streams in the Desert August 1 Daily Devotional

Surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead (Romans 6:13, Weymouth).
I went one night to hear an address on consecration. No special
message came to me from it but as the speaker kneeled to pray, he dropped this sentence: "O Lord, Thou knowest we can trust the Man that died for us." And that was my message. I rose and walked down the street to the train; and as I walked, I pondered deeply all
that consecration might mean to my fife and-[ was afraid. And then, above the noise and clatter of the street traffic came to me the
message: "You can trust the Man that died for you." I got into the
train to ride homeward; and as I rode, I thought of the changes,
the sacrifices, the disappointments which consecration might mean to me and-I was aft-aid.
I reached home and sought my room, and there upon my knees I saw my past life. I had been a Christian, an officer in the
church,
a Sunday-school superintendent but had never definitely yielded my life to God.
Yet as I thought of the darling plans which might be baffled, of
the cherished hopes to be surrendered, and the chosen profession which I might have to abandon-I was afraid.
I did not see the better things God had for me, so my soul was shrinking back; and then for the last time, with a swift rush of convicting power, came to my innermost heart that searching message:
"My child, you con trust the Man that died for you. If you cannot trust Him whom can you trust?"
That settled it for me, for in a flash I saw the Man who so loved me as to die for me could be absolutely trusted with all the
concerns of the life He had saved.
Friend, you can trust the Man that died for you. You can trust Him to baffle no plan which is not best to be foiled, and to carry out
every one which is for God's glory and your highest good. You can trust Him to lead you in the path which is the very best in this
world for you. --J. H. McC.
Just as I am, thy love unknown, Has broken every barrier down,
Now to be Thine, yea, Thine ALONE, O Lamb of God, I come!
"Life Is not salvage to be saved out of the world, but an Investment to be used in the world.