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My Daily Meditation For The Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

AUGUST The Twenty-sixth MISSING THE LORD

|Thou knowest not the time of thy visitation.|
-- LUKE xix.37-44.

Yes, that has been my sad experience. I have wasted some of my wealthiest seasons. I have treated the hour as common and worthless, and the priceless opportunity has passed.

There have been times when my Lord has come to me, and I have turned Him away from my door. He so often journeys |incognito,| and if I am thoughtless I dismiss Him, and so lose the privilege of heavenly communion and benediction. He knocks at my door as a Carpenter, and the humble attire deceives me, and I treat Him with scant courtesy, and sometimes with contempt. I know not the time of my visitation.

He comes to me in the guise of needy people -- as sick, or hungry, or a stranger, and I cannot be troubled with His presence. I dismissed Him as a pauper, little knowing that I was turning away a millionaire! I knew not the time of my visitation! |I was an hungered, and ye gave Me no meat,| and so we missed the bread of life.

And so there is nothing for it, but to be always |on the watch.| I must treat everybody as though everybody was the Christ. And I must treat every commonplace moment as though it were the home of the eternal.

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