through them. It is the ability to be consistent and to keep on with a joy in your heart that is obvious, over whelming and overflowing. Do you ever get discouraged? Perhaps you are a minister and you have been preach ing for a long time. You have been running the race that was set before you but you have grown really weary. Claim God’s promise. Maybe you are a Sunday school teacher and have a group of young people who have just gotten you down. Don’t give up; the Lord wants to refresh you. The final promise is “They shall walk and not faint.” The Christian life is often described as a walk. Don’t make the fatal error of think ing that it is merely a step. Too many only take the step of accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Saviour and then that is all. We must take one step after another. As we have re ceived the Lord Jesus Christ we are to walk in Him. Since we took the first step of committing ourselves to Him we must constantly draw upon all that he has available for us. Here is a promise of victory over defeat. Have you ever felt that every step was like quick sand? The more you struggled the deeper down you sank. Tell the Saviour, “Lord, You prom ised that You would make it Your personal responsibility that those who wait upon You should walk and not faint. I want Your promised victory.”
Remember this, however, it isn’t enough merely to claim the promises. We must also fulfill the conditions. Simply stated, it is to wait upon the Lord. We must be prepared to make Christ Lord of our lives without any reserve. It doesn’t mean that we are to hang around waiting for something to come “out of the blue.” We are rather to depend implicitly upon the Lord, expecting Him to work out each problem in and through us. THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD Let me behold the beauty of thy face, Dear Son of God — my soul has need of this. Let me look long, until Thy match less grace Shall overflow, and Thy great love dismiss The world from me. Too long with pettiness M y heart has swelled! Oh Christ, 1 need to view Again the beauty of Thy Holiness, And feel my spirit cleansed, my life made new. The ways we wander lead so far afield! The dreams we follow are but moths in flight. There Is no harvest that the heart can yield, Apart from Thee, that will with stand time's blight. Dear Son of God, Thy face I long to see— My lost horizons all converge in Thee. — Helen Frazee-Bower One day I waited in a church for a young lady. I wasn’t just “hanging around,” hoping she might come. I was utterly depending upon her in earnest expectation. My life was com mitted to her and hers was to me. To “wait upon the Lord” means that you simply commit all that you are to Him, expecting that He will indeed keep His promises. Why not fulfill the conditions right now? Claim that which He desires to give: vigor, vis ion, vitality, and victory. Do this and you will have a great day! 15
Work has moved ahead rapidly toward an August 15th projected completion date for Marshburn Hall. To be housed in the new facility wil be important classroom space for the growing number of stu dents who are seeking enrollment in Biola.
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