1986 May/June issue Part 6

He Is Able

For more than a century thousands of Christians have used a little book called Daily Light, a collection of scripture verses arranged for morning and evening reading, without commentary. The story of how it was put together perhaps gives us a clue as to why so many can testify to the amazing relevance of the selected passages to the needs of the very days for which they are given. The Bagster family of London collected the scripture passages and "prayed them into" the dates. Sometimes it did not seem clear which passages were to be used on a given date, so they proceeded to the next and later returned to fill in the page in question. The evening selection for March 8 is this:

I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able.

Able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.

Able to make all grace abound toward you;

that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.

Able to succour them that are tempted.

Able ... to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

Able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.

Able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

"Believe ye that I am able to do this?" ... Yea,  Lord.

"According to your faith be it unto you.

(2 Tim 1:12; Eph 3:20; 2 Cor 9:8; Heb 2:18; Heb 7:25; Jude 24; 2 Tim 1:12; Phil 3:21; Matt 9:28-29)