CREDIT DRUNKS There are many dread, diseases to which man has become susceptible. One of the newest, and to which many people have succumbed, has created a race of “credit drunks.” It all seems to be a by-product of the restless age in which we are living. Anything can be charged arid purchased on time, often things which are not really need ed, luxury items, status symbols, things which are the possessions of others. We never seem to learn that happi ness doesn’t come in obtaining that which we feel we simply must have. The momentary thrill passes and we are again miserable, frustrated and dis couraged. Jesus said that a man’s life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses. “It is far better to appreciate things we don’t have than to have things we don’t appreciate.” Children don’t lose out, are not made impoverished, when they are not given everything they want. A little boy was having fun in his front yard with just one roller skate. A neighbor suggested that he would have more fun with two of them; one was hardly enough. The boy quickly answered, “Oh, sure, l know it would be better, but when one is all a guy has, then he has to make the best of it. And 1 can sure have a lot more fun with one skate than 1 can have with none at all.” How true he was. We, too, as God’s children, must not be caught up in Satan’s clever snare of material ism. We must be able to say with Paul, “I have learned, in whatsoever state 1 am, therewith to be content.” In this world it is not what we pick up but what we give up that makes us rich. PREACHING BETTER THAN ANGELS It was A. T. Pierson who said some years ago, “Men must finish angels’ work. Peter could do more for Cornel ius than the angel could. Regardless of how frail your words may be, you can proclaim the Gospel better than Gab riel, because. Gabriel cannot say, ‘l am a sinner saved by grace.’ ” 18
Prophecy (continued) holy judgment. The earth will not end in the wrath of men but in the wrath of God. This is one reason why we be lieve our Lord Jesus Christ is coming again. All true born again believers will be delivered from the holocaust that man would bring upon the earth. Although man might bring great trial and trouble upon the earth, he will never be able to wreck it. God is pre serving it against the day when His wrath and His judgment will cause every tongue to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. FIRST BIBLE A little boy's first Bible Is the greatest thrill he's known: There's a sweet, unique excitement In a Bible all his own!
And yet my heart is smitten As this touching sight I see— Has his reverence for that Bible Depended much on me? As I see him with his Bible, I bow my head and pray— May he always love that Bible The way he does today. Then I hear a voice within me Speak in solemn words and true; "How he cherishes that Bible Will depend a lot on you!" I love my Bible better Since I've seen the beaming joy
This wonderful possession Has afforded to my boy.
May I seek to give mine daily A devotion he can see. For the love he bears his Bible Will depend a lot on me.
Now we can do this out of willing hearts, but then it will be obeisance out of subjugation. Today you have the privilege of knowing the Lord as a God of love and salvation. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoso ever . believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). W ill you know Him now as Saviour or then as Judge?
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