his heart filled with the love of God and his life under the control of the Holy Spirit. And in answer to his long ing God loosed a Niagara of blessing to countless souls which flows on in the present time. Dr. Torrey’s world-wide ministry is another example of the en larged coast. God grant that the same passion for souls grip our lives and our coast be enlarged as we face the ap palling state of the world. Jabez is still not satisfied. He wants a closer touch upon his life, and peti tions, “ That thine hand might be with me.” Happy the man upon whom the hand of God rests in blessing. It is a humbling as well as an empowering and exalting hand. Jabez longed for the hand of his Lord to be upon his life, controlling, directing, upholding. For the hand which controls and upholds the universe to be upon us and with us is the measureless measure of blessing. If His hand is with us, we can stand, endure and conquer. If the church would only submit to that hand, what power and blessing would follow! The prayer of Jabez proceeds from the outward to the inward, to the in most core of his being, as he pleads, “ And that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me.” We have struck the unexpected. Not, “ that it may not grieve Thee,” but, “that it may not grieve me.” This is a word which surprises us. Here is a man sen sitive to evil with a sensitiveness which causes sorrow. If we are that sensitive to sin we shall not cause grief to God. Through this little window we see the great soul of Jabez. What an example to each of us to hate the evil and cleave to God. Have we a like hatred for sin and passion for holiness? Have we the consuming desire to walk with God? Jabez had the vision of the holi ness of God and it is in the light of this vision that we see the vileness of sin. Sin is defilement, a most painful view of sin, of which the leper is the awful type. And to God this defiling sin is loathsome, filling His being with repulsion. It is this the Holy Christ came to deal with and only in the light of Calvary can we understand the true nature, depth and guilt of sin. Jabez knew not Calvary but he knew enough of the loathsomeness of sin and the holiness of God to hate the one and love the other. Knowing his own weakness, he cried, “ Keep me from evil.” He pleads that God’s hand of power firmly grasp him that he may be kept from evil. For this abiding in God and in Christ there must be the abstaining from evil, yea, the very hatred of sin, and the sensitiveness unto sorrow over it. This is the pathway of blessing and power. Only as we have this vision of the holiness of God, only as we abide in the Lord, only as we are filled with the Holy Spirit can we have our coast en larged and be kept from sin. Having this attitude of heart and life we do not wonder that this crowning word is recorded of Jabez, “ And God granted him that which he requested.” T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
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