Ask yourself if one hour of reading the Bible or listening to a preacher wearies you. Then, as the Scripture states, how will you get along when there is noth ing else but these things. The Lord is warning us because He loves us. He wants us to realize that we cannot play at this business of Christianity. We must realize that someday the death angel will come along and knock at our door saying, "The Master sent me for you.” Will you want to know something beside the baseball scores or what is on the front page of the news paper? Haven’t you noticed that just as soon as church is out the people “beat it”? They are not going away to some other meeting. They are through for the day. They go early so as to have time enough for everything else under the sun. Get the religion over with for the day and then do the things you love. There is a strange expression in James which says, “So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.” This is the law that ob tains when one is perfectly free. When you go where nobody knows you, do you hunt up a prayer meeting or some type of entertainment? The lion in the cage is judged by the fact that he is very nice and gentle there. You let that lion out of there and nobody will pet him. The freedom of the lion reveals what he really is. This is judgment by the law of liberty. Our Lord is calling us to let Him make us into what we want to be for eternity. We would like to have what we want, but God would like to give us what we need. We know what is pleas ant for us, but God knows what is best for us. So in His grace and kind- (continued on next page) 7
O ne of the things I enjoy doing is finding interesting verses in the Word of God. Here is one you may never have discovered: "If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou con tend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?” (Jeremiah 12:5). This brings before us certain truths which need our earnest atten tion. My earnest opinion is that we were never so near the judgment day as we are today. For this reason we need to run with a purpose. When one goes to a baseball game, if it is a close con test, we pay no attention to the time. But let the Sunday morning service run over five, minutes and we grumble and complain. How strange we are. “If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee” (this kind of a religious exercise wearies people). But if God is really in our midst and souls are being stirred, convicted of sin, how would you get along in that kind of a meeting. Our Lord is telling us that we ought to have sense enough to know that something must happen to us right where we are in our ex perience. The Scriptures tell us that the Lord Jesus came but that the people hated Him. Some plucked the hair from His cheeks while others wanted to fall at His feet and kiss Him. There were some who saw Him and called Him bad names. Others said, “My Lord, and my God.” Some said “We’ll not have this man to reign over us.” Others said, “We want you to be our Lord and Master.” There are two kinds of peo ple. Christ Jesus is the dividing point.
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