You Get What You Give

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YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE BY J. H. JOWETT

With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.' — Matthew vii. 2. TfHESE words are usually interpreted in their application to the relationship which we sustain to others. If we are severe in our judgements, the same measure of severity shall be visited upon us. If our judgements are large in long-suffering and forbearance, the same measure of long-suffering and forbearance shall be meted to us. If our criticism of others be directed to the exposure of their faults, the same measure of searching light shall be applied to the exposure of our faults If we are only strictly just, strict justice shall be measured out to us. If we are merciful, mercy shall flow out towards us. 1 With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.' Such is the common interpretation, an interpretation strictly in accordance with the whole tenor and teaching of our Master's life. But the words enshrine a principle to which our Lord gave other and varied applications; and some of these applications are perhaps too commonly ignored. Let us glance at one or two.

i. 'Unto you that hear shall more be given.' The measure of your hearing shall be the measure of your listening. The more you listen the more you shall hear. The measure of your attention shall determine the measure of the revelation. 'With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.' That is a very vital and momentous application of this great principle. If you want to hear the voice of God, listen ! The voice will grow clearer and clearer as your hearing becomes more earnest and intense. Listen to God's voice in conscience, and more and more pronounced and definite shall be its guidance. Do not listen much to conscience, and conscience will say less and less to you, until perhaps some day the hall where it ought to thunder shall be as silent as the tomb. A man ought to have a clearer and more vigorous conscience at fifty than he had at twenty, or it is an unanswerable witness that he has not been listening as he ought. This is a great law: ' Unto you that hear shall more be given,' and ' From him that hath not, shall be taken away even that which he hath.' It is not otherwise with the voice that speaks from the book we call the Word of God. * Unto you that hear shall more be given.' A person can read the Bible, and not listen, and to him there comes no eternal speech. The revelation is not given to the

reader, but to the listener. I may read discourse after discourse which was spoken by our Lord, but if the ear of my spirit be closed, I shall never hear the Master's voice. His voice is spiritually discerned, and only as I listen with my spirit will revelations be made to me. 'In the hidden part Thou, shalt make me to know wisdom/ If we turn to the Word with the spirit awake and alert, we shall be led from revelation tc revelation, and from glory to glory. 'Untc you that hear shall more be given ' ; measure for measure : ¦ with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.' 2. ' According to thy faith be it done untc* thee.' Measure for measure ! The measure of our faith is the measure of the power we receive from our Lord. Little faith — little power, little daring, little enterprise 1 Great faith — great power, great daring, great enterprise ! Faith is power ; and the measure of the one is the measure of the other. Faith is buoyancy : lose your faith, you begin to sink. What is faith? 'Faith is the assurance of things hoped for.' Faith acts on the assurance that the thing hoped for is. Vouhope that there is a hereafter, where your Iroken family circle may be again complete. \ct on the assurance that the thing hoped lor is. Arrange your life and affairs on I he assurance that you are to live again. That is faith. Take the matter of forgiveness. You have penitently sought the Lord's

nercy-seat, and humbly appealed for forgiveness. You hope that the gracious Father vdll forgive you. That is the thing hoped for. ow act on the assurance that the thing hoped for is, that you are forgiven. ' Believe that you have received them, and ye shall have them.' That is faith. Such faith is power ; and the more our faith increases the greater will be our power to pursue a quiet, faithful, and confident life. 'According to your faith be it unto you/ ' With what neasure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

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