wait upon Him, God will open doors that He would have you use. You will find that you have more time to be the kind of a parent, or wife, or husband God intended you to be at home. Christ always sought to do the Father's will (John 8:29; Mark 7:37). Stick dili gently to your given ministry if you are going to fulfill it. Do not be come distracted. It will take some effort and determination on your part to keep from getting side tracked from what you are sup posed to do for the Lord as you minister through the church and in the church. It is wonderful to know that we can go to the Lord with all of our problems and emotional stresses. No one is without testings and trials. The world does not under stand these difficulties at all. It may even be hostile to salvation's reality. Biola stands committed to the pastor and stands behind the minister who's preaching the Word of God, lifting up Jesus Christ in every sphere of influence. Today we have a tremendous mission to fulfill. If you stick diligently to the ministry God has given you will find satisfaction and fulfillment. A really wise man once said that a person's biography ought really to begin with death and not birth. Such can only be written from the point of view of its end where the whole of his life and its fulfillment can be seen. The cross was written all over Christ's life. One writer comments, "The cross of Jesus Christ is God's truth about you and me." It was only at the cross that God could demonstrate what you and I are in heaven. The cross needs to be raised at the center of the marketplace as well as on Page 54
T H O U G H SM A L L AM I I looked into the glory of the Father's handiwork, The silence of the stars cried out His Name! I looked upon the tossing sea and felt His firm control And knew the mountains, too, declared His fame. Though small am I beside the sea — beneath the lofty peak, And like a grain of sand beneath the sky, Our God, the Great Creator, gave His Son To die for me. He leads my steps and hears my faintest cry! — Esther B. Heins the steeple of the church. The Sav iour was not crucified in a cathe dral between two candles, but up on the cross between two thieves. He was tossed on the town gar bage heap, at a crossroad which was so cosmopolitan that they had to write His title in Hebrew, Latin and Greek. Through Christ we must always reach men where they are. There must be no room for hate. James Russell Lowell said, "Folks never understand the peo ple whom they hate." The oppo site of that is true, too. We will have a difficult time hating those whom we understand and love. Longfellow wrote, "If we could only read the secret histories of our enemies, we would find out that in each man's life there is enough to disarm all of our hos tilities."
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