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It may seem an odd idea, but a simple glance at one's hand, with the recollection, This hand is not mine; it has been given to Jesus, and it must. be kept for Jesus,' may sometimes turn the scale in a doubtful matter, and be a safeguard from certain temptations. With that thought fresh in your mind as you look at your hand, can you let it take up things which, to say the very least, are not 'for Jesus? things which evidently cannot be used, as they most certainly are not used, either for Him or by Him? Cards, for instance - Can you deliberately hold in it books of a kind which you know perfectly well, by sadly repeated experience, lead you farther from instead of nearer to Him? Books which must and do fill your mind with those ' other things' which, entering in, choke the word? Books which you would not care to read at all, if your heart were burning within you at the coming of His feet to bless you ? Next time any temptation of this sort approaches, just look at your hand!

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