in the way and has to be put away. What does God care about our talents or our gifts? In His grace He knows where we are and what we are He knows what excuses you are making. Beloved, He came to enable us to do everything that has to be done. “How' shall He not with Him freely give us all things” that pertain unto Godli ness and to eternal life. He has come FOUNDATION STONES I would not lose the hard things from my life, The rocks o'er which I stumbled long ago. The griefs and fears, the failures and mistakes, That tried and tested faith and pa tience so. I need them now; they make the ~ deep-laid wall, , The firm foundation-stones on which I raise— To mount therein from stair to higher stair— The lofty towers of my House of Praise. Soft was the roadside tuff to weary feet. And cool beneath the meadows where I fain had trod, And sweet beneath the trees to lie at rest And breathe the incense of the flow er-starred sod; But not on these might I securely build: Nor sand nor sod withstand the earth quake shock: I need the rough, hard boulders of the hills To set my house on everlasting rock. — Annie Johnson Flint to make us able messengers of His. Don’t say, “I’m nobody” because that is an insult to God. “There is a place by me” said the Lord to Moses, “and you can stand there and see my back parts.” “A place by me.” This is what we need. Get close to the Lord through His Holy Spirit. He wants to per form miracles in and through you. But get “I” out of the way and say, “Not I, but Christ.” 13
Mr. Merv Fishback (standing).ExecutiveAdministrator of theArizonaBible College, goes overdaily program heard on KHEP, Phoenix, with Mr. Jack Willis, station manager.
We as believers can. thank God for His demands upon us. He wants to make something out of us. He is in terested in our welfare. He gives us a voice to sing and then He watches to see what we do with it. Do we sing for His glory or do we repeat the vain and emp t y “clatter” of the world? If we live by faith, when He gives us a gift, we should begin using it for Him. He is worthy of it. Faith is living without scheming. The Lord wants us to live right. Faith doesn’t have any back door. It is not just trusting God while there is money in the bank account or when one is in good health. Faith walks alone with God; it needs nothing else. There was a woman going home from church when an atheist met her. He said, “I suppose you went up to church and believed God. I guess you would do anything He told you.” “Yes, I would,” she answered. “Well then, suppose God told you to jump through a stone wall. You would probably try it, would you not?” She said, “I cer tainly would. It is my business to do the jumping and it is God’s business to make the hole.” Now that is trust! Faith believes God will do the im possible and He does it. “The just shall live by faith.” But our little “I am” is selfish. When God says do something we usually respond with, “It cannot be done. I do not have any talents. I do not have any gifts. I cannot sing. I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.” “I” always gets
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