frustrations, are too heavy, ask your self, “Why am I carrying it when the Lord wants to?” We need not be weighted down when everything has been committed to Christ. A Christian one time told his friend with a bright and beaming face, “You know, I’m so happy be cause I’m greatly burdened!” His friend looked at him strangely until he heard the beautiful reason behind this strange paradox. The victorious believer explained, “I’ve given all my cares to Christ, and in their place, as the Scripture promises, He has daily loaded me with benefits” (Psalm 68). It is no wonder that there are so many confused and perplexed people when they continually carry their own loads. Blessings are what God wants to give you in exchange for your entrusting Him with all of your problems and concerns. * * * If you carry the Bible while you are young, it will carry you when you are old. * * * A DROP OF POISON A recent medical journal reported that there is enough bacteria in the human mouth which, if placed in the proper culture and then introduced into the water supply of an average sized city, would be poisonous enough to kill the entire population. A deadly drug need not be taken in large doses. Our newspapers carried the recent ar ticle about a Burbank, California woman who mistook a beaker of boil ing cyanide solution for coffee her first day at work in a metal’s firm. She sipped from it and died within 5 minutes. The last words she ever ut tered were, “What was it?” The com pany reported that the amber colored cyanide solution must be boiling hot when used in metal plating. Em ployees keep it in a gallon beaker on the stove. The coffee urn sits nearby on a box. The woman saw the beaker first and poured from it to her imme diate death. The Word of God tells us that the human tongue is an unruly evil filled with deadly poison. While it is true that no one can completely
Mr. Tery Rose (left) Biola Freshmen Counselor, talks withstudentsSharon Warkentin Hilts and GeorgeJones. Mr. Rose was blindedin Korea while fightingto save "Porkchop Hill."
control his own tongue, certainly the Holy Spirit desires to. The Bible re minds us, “Let no corrupt communi cation or (worthless speech) proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying (benefit ing you and others), that it may min ister grace (blessing) to the hearers” (Ephesians 1:29). * * * We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on Him after we pray. * * * WHERE THE DIRT IS It wasnearing the endof summer and alittle girl’svacation at her grandmother’s was almost over. Her parents were coming to pick her up and the grandmother wanted to make sure that the house was all in order. Her granddaughter was helping with the dusting. But she couldn’t seem to get the piano to please her granny. Three times the little girl was told, “Go back and do it again!” Frus trated and confused, the child began to cry and explained, “Granny, don’t you understand? The dust isn’t on the piano, it’s right there on your own 15
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