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Today's Devotional

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them—Matthew 5:17 (NIV). 

Christ did not come to find fault with the old institutions and law. He came to give clearer light, to show how the law could be kept, not to destroy anything that was good. Perhaps you live a life of trying to be good, of attempting to keep the Commandments, and sometimes you get a glimpse, and a sort of vision, a kind of prophecy, that really is never fulfilled, dawns on you; but it is soon gone, and you go on in the old way. Now Christ comes to you, not to destroy, but to fulfill, adding to what you know, and to what you are, and to complete you. I observed in looking on a building that was being raised on the site of an old one, that the builder carefully used all the material of the former house that was good in building the new. So if you will let Him God will take the old man and convert it into his own ideal of “a perfect man in Christ Jesus.”

About the author and the source

Margaret McDonald Bottome (1827–1906) was an American religious organizer, founder of the King’s Daughters which (after the admission of men and a change of name) boasted half a million members in Canada and the United States within twenty years. She wrote a column in the Ladies’ Home Journal for members and also wrote several books, including the devotional Crumbs from the King’s Table.