THE KING’S BUSINESS These are good days for the Christian to bear in mind Paul’s opening words in his wonderful description of the everyday manifestations of love found in the 13th chapter of First Corinthians, “Love suffereth long,
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“Love Suffereth Long, and Is Kind.”
and is kind.” Love endures injury after injury, insult after insult, wrong after wrong,-slander after slander, and still keeps right on loving and forgiving and forgetting. It wastes itself in vainly trying to help the unworthy and ungrate ful, and still it loves on. And it “is kind,” it knows no harshness. If may be severe, even as Jesus Christ Himself was on occasion severe, but its necessary severity is shot through with gentleness and tenderness and pity. If there was ever a day in which love was needed, real love, divine love, as described in the Word of God, it is the day in which we live.
We are in receipt of the following letter from Hebron, Brynmawr, New South Wales: “I am so pleased with T he K ing ’ s B usiness . I may say it is quite an inspi ration to go- through the Sunday School lessons week
Kind Words from a Far Country. ,
by week, and I praise God for such a clear, simple and Scriptural definition of God’s Word. Also every article helps to establish one in the faith. In this month’s number I had a great blessing through the reading of that won derful New Years letter of William Romaine. I pray every one that reads it may catch the same wonderful glimpse of the wonderful efficacy and power of the Blood and Righteousness of Jesus Christ for them. I enclose the amount of a year’s subscription to have the magazine sent to a dear friend in a neigh boring town.”
There are many who think they wish to know and are willing to do God’s will and that it is God’s will that they are seeking to know, but what they are really seeking is to get God to say yes to their own plans and
Real and Fictitious Surrender to God.
to get God to endorse the plan that they themselves have already subconsciously formed. And they are not waiting, as they suppose they are, until God tells them what His will really is, they are waiting until God tells them to do the thing that they wish to do and in their subconscious self have made up their minds to do. So they think and think and think, and pray and pray and pray, until they think themselves into thinking that God tells them to do the thing that they themselves wished to do from the outset, and this thing that they wished to do from the outset may not be God’s plan at all. This is one of the most frequent causes of thinking we have the mind of God when we are only doing the thing that we wish to do. Men and women who go to God for guid ance in this way, that is without having absolutely put aside their own will and their own opinion, when they do think themselves into a place where they fancy that God has endorsed their plan, are the most positive in saying that “God tells me to do thus and so.” So then, if we would be guided of God, we must, make absolutely sure that we have put away our own will entirely and are utterly willing to, and desirous of; doing God’s will, whatever it may be. We must be sure that we are silent before God and truly listening for His voice, and not still listening to this desire that we have in the depths of our heart, that God shall tell us to do the thing that we wish to do.
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