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"The voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." - Luke 3:4
The voice crying in the wilderness demanded a way for the Lord, a way prepared,
and a way prepared in the wilderness. I would be attentive to the Master's
proclamation, and give him a road into my heart, cast up by gracious operations,
through the desert of my nature. The four directions in the text must have my
serious attention.
Every valley must be exalted. Low and grovelling thoughts of God must be given
up; doubting and despairing must be removed; and self-seeking and carnal
delights must be forsaken. Across these deep valleys a glorious causeway of
grace must be raised.
Every mountain and hill shall be laid low. Proud creature-sufficiency, and
boastful self-righteousness, must be levelled, to make a highway for the King of
kings. Divine fellowship is never vouchsafed to haughty, highminded sinners. The
Lord hath respect unto the lowly, and visits the contrite in heart, but the
lofty are an abomination unto him. My soul, beseech the Holy Spirit to set thee
right in this respect.
The crooked shall be made straight. The wavering heart must have a straight path
of decision for God and holiness marked out for it. Double-minded men are
strangers to the God of truth. My soul, take heed that thou be in all things
honest and true, as in the sight of the heart-searching God.
The rough places shall be made smooth. Stumbling-blocks of sin must be removed,
and thorns and briers of rebellion must be uprooted. So great a visitor must not
find miry ways and stony places when he comes to honour his favoured ones with
his company. Oh that this evening the Lord may find in my heart a highway made
ready by his grace, that he may make a triumphal progress through the utmost
bounds of my soul, from the beginning of this year even to the end of it.
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