hands in fear. You say, “You’re in me, thank You very much. At this mo ment, I expect You to do all that You have in mind.” He will not fail you as you are faithful to Him. This prin ciple may be applied to every area of Christian experience. We live by faith. This is a faith not just in the Christ who died for us but faith in a Christ who lives in us. Make abso lutely certain you understand what it means to accept Christ as your Sav iour. Day by day and situation by sit uation, appropriate Him as your life. Peter tells us, “Be ready.” Ready for what? It really doesn’t matter. When you make your life in its total- GIVE LAVISHLY! LIVE A BU ND AN T LY ! The more you give, the more you get— The more you laugh, the less you fret— The more of everything you share. The more you'll always have to spare. The more you love, the more you'll find That life is good and friends are kind. ity available to the Lord Jesus Christ He makes His life, in its total ity, available to you. This means that you expect anything to happen simply because of who He is. The key word is “expectation.” How much do you really expect to happen? The degree of your expectation will determine the quality of your faith. “Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you.” First, there is expectation and then there is explana tion. You must be capable of present ing, with an intelligible language, God’s truth. He wants to take you and use you to bring great glory to His name and untold blessing to the people with whom you come in con tact. May this be your purpose and desire today and each day until He comes again. The more you do unselfishly, The more you live abundantly, For only what we give away. Enriches us from day to day. — Helen Steiner Rice
What God's grace has provided, man's faith must possess.
COSTS FOR CHILDREN C h a n g in g T im e s , a publication many businessmen receive, declares that to rear a child from birth to eighteen years of age, costs approximately twelve thou sand dollars. This is for a family with a very modest standard of living. It can run as high as sixty thousand dollars for those in higher income brackets. The national average, so we are told, for one child from birth to age eighteen is be tween twenty and thirty-five thousand dollars. Keep in mind, too, that these fig ures don’t include the cost of a college education, which comes, of course, after the age of eighteen. The tragic thing is to realize that with these staggering amounts being spent, so little attention is given to a child’s real needs. No won der there are later problems when baby sitters put children to bed so frequently, sometimes a different one each evening. This doesn’t engender a sense of secu rity with a father or mother at the bed side. Generally there’s nothing by way of prayers or Bible stories. Actually, it’s a marvel that any teenager grows up to be wholesome and well-balanced. It’s a proven fact that children need the im portance of comm un ion with God through prayer while they are growing up. It gives them what might be known as a built-in sense of security. Later, in adult life, this knowledge and assurance of the Lord’s presence is immeasurably comforting in all of the difficult hours which unquestionably come to all of us regardless of age or cicumstances. An swer the question for your own heart. “What type of spiritual preparation am I giving my children?” It’s true that you’re providing for them economically, and this at a tremendous rate, but are you overlooking the most vital dimen sion for their lives? How about family devotions and your personal attention to them. Such important times don’t just happen. You have to plan and carefully guard them. The Bible tells us to train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” * * * The fate of your children depends upon your two hands: they're needed to spank as well as to applaud. 9
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