What a breathtaki ng truth! “I have come.” Just another way of saying, “Befor e Abraham was born, I am!” (John 8:58). All others began to be; our Lord is pretemporal, definite ly coming out of the eternities for a definite purpose: “That they may have life.” This quality of life which the Biologist from Eternity gives, increases in quantity forever— “To the full!”

The abundant life which Christ offers is the possession alone of those whom He designates “my sheep.” It is not an entering into material blessedness. It is a spiritual fullness conditional altogether upon likeness to the Lord and walking in that obedience toward God wherein He walked. Its first condition is the acceptance of the Cross whereby the world is crucified unto the believer and the believer unto the world. But, as this separation is recognized and accepted and the life is wholly yielded and kept subject to the will of the Father , the Master’s incoming and indwelling meets every longing and every need. Then alone will be understood the meaning of the promise of our text: “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”

Have we come to the fountain of life? Are we drinking of its fullness? Are we living in His love? This is the life of our spirit; the health of our body; the secr et of our joy!

May we seek this overflowing life, and become “channels only,” with “all His wondr ous power flowing through us” so that He can use us every day and every hour! E VAN H. H OPKINS

Come to the everlasting spring and drink freely . It never runs dry! Though millions their thirst ar e now slaking, It never runs dry , And millions may still come partaking, It never runs dry!

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord.

I and my Father are one, the Father is in me, and I in him.—Had ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.—Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father.—Behold I and the children which God hath given me.—He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied.—I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.—Before Abraham was, I am.—God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

Unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever.—He is before all things, and by him all things consist.—In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.