AND THEY EAT (A Modern Day Parable)
Confessing Christ (continued) into the kingdom? Is that right? Per sonally, I don’t think so. The Bible says that we are to confess Him before men. To see a man get off the broad road onto the narrow road is certainly worth watching. Think of the one who made such a decision. Wouldn’t you think he would w an t.others to see that he was leaving the devil’s ranks and enter ing the army of God. Why, that is the most wonderful thing in all the world to witness. It is true that the world won’t like it and will probably make fun of you. But what if they do? Re member, they won’t be around when death comes. If anyone laughs at you WE SHALL BE SATISFIED Always yearning, always longing, Reaching out for something more, Always hungry, hardly knowing What it is we hunger for. Wistful eyes forever searching Past the far" horizon's rim. Know you not it is your spirit Ever thirsting after Him? This divine dissatisfaction— Surely He would have it so, Showing us our incompleteness While we tarry here below. When at last we stand beside Him, He the Bridegroom, we the bride. And these eyes of ours behold Him,— Then we shall be satisfied! — Martha Snell Nicholson just tell them to laugh on. I would much rather be a fool for Christ than a fool for the world. Everybody is a fanatic about something. Golf, baseball, medicine or something else occupies the fancy of every individual. If you are a fanatic about Christ Jesus you will find that He is more than worth it. He is the Lover of your soul and the Sovereign of your life. That is why Jesus said, “He that confesses me be fore men, him will I confess before My Father.” Beloved, I commend to you Christ Jesus. To confess Him openly brings true peace and lasting joy to your own heart.
“ Behold! The club clubbeth together . . . and they eat. The businessmen taketh counsel . . . and they eat. The .church hath a social . . . and they eat. The young people elect officers . . . and they eat. And even when the mis sionary society meeteth together . . . they eat. (But this latter in good cause, because they eat in remembrance of the poor heathen who hath not to eat.) Behold, hath man’s brains gone to his stomach and doth he no longer regard intellectual dainties that thou const no longer call an assembly or get together even a baker’s dozen except thou hold up the baker’s delights as bait? W ill it be true that the day cometh when, to get a crowd at prayer meeting, the preacher must hold up a biscuit? For as one calleth unto the child and saith, ‘Come here, little one, and I w ill give thee a stick of candy’ — even so must thou say to his grown up father and mother, ‘Assemble ye together and we w ill serve refresh ments.’ Behold, may we rather desire spiritual food, fulfilling the promise of Christ who said, ‘To him that over- cometh w ill I give to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God’ (Rev. 2:7).” * * * What most churches need is fewer steer ing committees and more good drivers. 6
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