busy controlling my own life. Right at this moment I want you to captivate me.” If you do this you will discover that you begin to love the Lord in a way that you didn’t dream possible. This is not a love that just talks and sings hymns, but one which evidences itself by action. A young man wrote to his girl friend all sorts of wonderful things. He said he loved her so much that he was prepared to climb the highest mountain only to be by her side. He promised that he would swim the widest ocean just to be with her. He further affirmed that he would fight the biggest lion for the privilege of her company. Going on this way for a few pages of the most expensive lit erature he drew his remarks to a close. After an affectionate farewell and a few little “X’s” on the bottom, he added this P.S., “I’ll be over Fri day night if it doesn’t rain.” This sort of love is cheap and is only a lot of talk. If the Lord asked you the ques tion, “Do you really love Me?” how would you answer it?” What happens to people who really love the Lord is found here in Judges 5 :31, “Let them that love the Lord be as the sun when he goes forth in his might.” One of the strangest things is for an Englishman to talk to people living in California or other sunny areas of the United States about the sun. We just don’t know too much about it over in England. The only type of sunshine we have is the liquid kind. Flying above the clouds in Europe, however, I have seen the sun and I love it. I have never mis taken the sun for anything else, even though I haven’t seen it too often. It is absolutely unmistakable. We, as Christians are to be as the sun, so distinctive, so radiantly clear in our testimony. We desperately need Christians who are absolutely distinctive about their testimony. I have a wonderful friend who lives way up in the North of Eng land. He is a printer who is not very tall and who has a bent spine so that he is almost doubled over. Around town he is known affectionately as
“Percy the Printer.” People tease him because he is a Christian. I have heard more than one person say, how ever, “If ever there is a Christian around these parts it’s little ‘Percy the Printer.’ ” The reason is because he is just like the sun. One couldn’t mistake him for anything else. There is a certain and unmistak able radiance about the sun. Many young people, and we seem to have an abundance of the long haired vari ety over in England, tell me that whenever they have gone to church it always seemed to be such a miser able business. One fellow told me that he became in te re s ted in spiritual things and decided to go to a church. He didn’t want to go in but stood outside for the length of the whole service. As he watched the people come out he was greatly disillusioned. He said, “They all looked just as mis erable as when they went in.” The Bible says, “They that love the Lord will be like the sun.” Do you have a radiance about you? So many are* bitter and cynical, their entire approach is negative. Wherever we go we are to bring life in such measure that eternal life has been in us. To the degree in which we allow the Spirit of God to fill our lives we can demonstrate a sun-like quality of victorious existence. Illimitable power is available to us. The next time you see the sun, ask yourself, “Is that a picture of me?”
Mr. Merv Fishback (right), executive admin istrator of Biota's affiliated Arizona Bible College, looks over enrollment figures for the school'sfall semester with Mr. Paul Eymann. It Is anticipated that the student body will reach 225.
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