and we let ourselves get upset. What can we do when such things take place? The answer is not an overdose of sleeping tablets. Look what the Psalmist said, “Yet do I not forget thy statutes.” He went right to his Bible. This is the place to go when you find your heart is getting cold and indifferent. Read some of the Psalms and you will get up off your knees or out of your chair with a different feeling. Job said, “God maketh my heart soft.” Let Him do the same thing for you. In the 94th verse we read, “I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.” This is the “I Am” of relationship. We are made for the Lord. Because you are His, ask Him to save you. Do Christians need to be saved? Yes, absolutely! Saved from lots of things: tobacco, profane language, gossip, wrong attitudes, stinginess, laziness, and so many other things. Look up and say, “Lord, I’m yours, save me from saying what I shouldn’t say and from thinking what I shouldn’t think. I do not want to be a hypocrite. I don’t want to hurt or to rob other people.” In verse 107, it is the “I Am” of sorrow, “I am afflicted very much.” Would you think that after you were saved you would not be afflicted or have trouble? When you are the Lord’s He desires to brighten you like fine diamonds. We may have to be placed on the grindstone. Things we hold most dear, friends, relatives, position, wealth, health, may all be taken away from us. The Lord is more anxious to make you what He wants you to be than He is to give you what you would like to have. He sees what you need and gives that to you. In verse 120, we read, “I am afraid of thy judgments.” Here is the “I Am” of faith. He speaks of a fear for what God says in His Word. This should be true of all of us, too. When an atheist tells me he doesn’t believe the Bible, I ask him what it is he doesn’t believe. When pinned down, he can never tell me. Then I ask him, “Isn’t it the fact that you don’t be- 8
When they got near the flame, they would shrivel, shrink, dry up and get hard and brittle, losing their elas ticity. If your shoes get wet it is not too good of an idea to put them on the furnace because when they dry out you won't be able to get your feet into them. Here is a man who THE DISAPPOINTED LORD '"I came to your church last Sunday I walked up and down the aisle I saw that your seat was vacant/' Said the Master with a smile. "Yes, I was at home" I answered. "Some folks from up northern way Drove down for a weekend visit, So we stayed at home all day." "Oh, I had an awful headache; I had a roast in the pan;" «, Or, "We overslept that morning. But, I go whenever I can." " I went to the morning service Not over two months ago. So much work must wait till Sunday There's not time for church, you know." ' •The Master gazed at me sadly, As He was about to speak, "My child," He replied, "are there not Six other days in the week?" " If all my other children Should treat Me the same as you, My House would be closed and de serted, Then what would lost sinners do?" I saw I had grieved my Master, / As slowly He turned away, And I vowed He'd not find me ab sent, Again on His Holy Day. has become like a dried-up, shriveled- skin bottle. The joy and the sweet ness are all gone. What is the trou ble? Things have gone all wrong. There is trouble in the home or the office. It may have started over a little inconsequential matter, but now there is hardness and bitterness. All sorts of things go wrong for all of us,
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