"A ll Debts Paid"
"Building a Home"
An ad recently appeared in the New York Herald Tribune. It went this way: “/ AM responsible for all debts and obligations of my wife who, with an over-abundance of love and care, has made the past twenty married years the most wonderful of my life. On this anniversary I wish to publicly express my gratitude in this manner.” Now that is somewhat unusual, but it does bring to our thinking the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ has paid all our debts and obligations on the cross in His atoning death. “Jesus Paid It All.” "Keep Thy Heart" No one would ever expect to find flowers at the bottom of a coal mine. But in some areas there are beauti ful white blossoms coming out of the black earth. If any coal dust touches these lovely flowers, it immediately slides off leaving the blossom as lovely as ever. Our lives should react the same way. To be sure, we are living in a world filled with sin. We can’t help that any more than the flower could change the place of its growth. But God’s power and grace can keep us pure and clean. Although we touch sin on every side, it need not cling to us.
Sometimes our tasks seem to be filled with drudgery and we are all but in a rut, and yet we know that the Christian is under the direction and will of the Heavenly Father and all these little tasks have meaning. A little girl was watching her mother wash dishes. She thought of the many, many times the sink was piled high with such drudgery. She asked “Mommy, don’t you ever get tired of washing dishes?” The mother replied, “Yes, sweetheart, I do get tired when I am washing dishes, but 1 look at it as though I am building a home.” Victory through Prayer (cont.) First . . . The place of victory is the place of prayer. This battle had been won before they ever approached the battlefield. The answer was assured. If the battle of temptation, if the battle of our pride, if the battle for spiritual victory is to be won, it must be won before the actual conflict, on our knees before God, in brokenness, and earnest prayer. Second . . . The battle is not ours, but the Lord’s. We are completely in adequate to face the foe. God would have us to stand aside in faith and claim the victory that He would give. Third . . . The instrument of victory is faith expressed in praise. When the choir began to praise . . . the enemy was destroyed. Oh friend, why not come before God in brokenness and surren der, laying self and self-effort on the altar of sacrifice, and claim the vic tory that He has for you. Then you can rise from your knees to praise—victory will result.
That is what the Word of God means when we are told to “Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life.” “For the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanses us from all unrighteous ness.” EVENINGS— Covering the West over two of the most powerful stations KGO , San Francisco, 810 kc • K FR E , Fresno, 940 kc 9:00 P.M .— MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY
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