King's Business - 1929-08

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August 1929

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distinction: that in one they were in the dark and storm without Him, and in the other they had Christ on board, and yet they had the storm. Many Christians are just in this position; they seem on the very verge of being wrecked—what are they to do? Wake the Christ 1 You have Him on board, though indeed it is not often to be perceived that He is.. With so many He is so much in the background that it is not to be known that He is with them at all; the man himself is so for­ ward that He is not to be known. Give Him the ruling place, the place of author­ ity ; let Him stand upright in you and govern you. “He was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow.” It is a very close description of many, for it is quite true that when they received justi­ fication from Him at conversion, they did take Him on board. But then they let Him go to sleep. They thought they could manage very well, they thought there was no more for Him to do. Many have the Christ who died for them in the heart of their little vessel, but they have not got. the risen, reigning, sanctifying One who can still the storm, who can control and rule. One who can not only keep it back, but who can prevent it from rising, because the Christ has got His foot upon it. Do you know the calm of the ruling presence of Christ?— Rev. C. A. Fox, M A . - ■''—Or—' ■ '■ August 18— "My soul, wait thou only upon God" (Psa. 62:5). The pure in heart can find and see God anywhere. He who worships truly, car­ ries his Holy of Holies within him, He who takes his own fire need never com­ plain of the cold; and with wood and fire all prepared, he can find, or can build, an altar upon any mount. Happy is the soul that has learned to lean upon God; that can say, amid all the distractions and in­ terventions of man: “My soul, wait thou only upon God.” To such a one, whose soul is athirst for God, the valley of Baca becomes a well, while the hot rock pours out its streams of blessing. The art of worship avails nothing if the heart of worship is gone; but if that remains, sub­ tle attractions will ever draw it to the place where “His name is recorded, and where His honour dwelleth.” . —o— August 19— "How long are ye slack to go to possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers hath given you?” (Josh. 18:3). In England a man was riding along the roadside one very warm, sultry day. There had been a drought for a long time. He met a child with some water in a pail, and asked her for some. She raised her pail and'he drank out of it. “Where did you get such good water?” “Oh, there’s a spring over there right by the side of the hill.” “Does it ever get dry?” “Yes, sometimes.” . “Well, what do you do then?” “Oh, there’s another a little higher up, and we go to that.” “Doesn’t that ever get dry?” “Yes.” “Well, what then?” “Well, there’s another higher up, and we have to go up the hill to that.” “Doesn’t that ever get dry?” “Sometimes they all get dry, and we then go to the top of the, hill, and that one never gets dry.” O my readers, in Christ’s name let us all go to the top of the hill now!

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Thee, because he trusteth in Thee,” de­ scribes the second. There is a good deal in learning to “stay.” Sometimes we for­ get that it literally means to stop. It is a great blessing even to stop all thought, and this is frequently the only way to answer the devil’s whirlwind of irritating questions and thoughts, to be absolutely still and refuse to even think, and meet his evil voice with a simple and everlast­ ing “N o !” If we will be still God will give us peace.— A. B. Simpson. God is not angry with us because some sadness or grief or perplexity has come upon u s; but it would grieve Him much if we could not add—and find strength, and hope, and comfort in adding— “Nevertheless, I am with Thee.” I think He wants us to feel that, whatever comes, His presence, His love, His share in it, shall be sufficient for u s; that there is no circumstance, no difficulty, no life, for which the answer and remedy may not be found in Him. His desire is to draw us to Himself, that we may be purified—may be conformed to His will—may forego our own if it is contrary to His—may be blessed, and made a blessing in His ser­ vice ; and, like a skillful physician who understands the many variations and in­ tricacies of the same disease in different people, He has one supreme cure, but many ways of ministering it. He does not deal in precisely the same way with any two of His patients, but the end is the same; that each may find out that Jesus Himself is all our need,—every bit of it —for in Him is all our “Wisdom, Right­ eousness, Sanctification and Redemption” ; and that, knowing this, we may abide in Him, and for every trouble or vexation or temptation or difficulty, may raise our hearts in perfect confidence and hope to the love and sufficiency that awaits them, and add, “Nevertheless, I am with THEE.”-— Selected. ’Tis not where torrents are born, nor amid snow-capped peaks, nor in the break of the su rf; but in the heart, weaned from itself, isolated in chambers of sick­ ness, cast among strangers, yearning for tender voices that cannot make them­ selves heard—there God is no longer still. He breaks the silence. “Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.” “It is I; be not afraid.” It is always easy to detect God’s voice, because it is full of Jesus, who is the Word of God, and it is corroborated by Providence; but the heart must be still, and on the listen!— Selected. ■ — o — August IS— Nevertheless, I am with Thee’’ (Psa. 73:22, 23). — o — August 16—“O God, keep not thou si­ lence; hold not Thy peace, and he not still, O God" (Psa. 83:1, R. V.). August 17— "And he went up unto -them into the ship" (Mark 6:51). There is a miracle recorded in Mark 6. ' There they had Christ on board, but they had the storm as well. He has come down from the hills of intercession, and His blessed mediation, and He has come on board, but yet there is a storm. He has given us two miracles (John 6; Matt. 14) like each other, but with this — o —

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“I want to live above the world, Tho’ Satan’s darts at me are hurled ; For faith has caught the joyful sound, The song of saints on higher ground. Lord, lift me up, and I shall stand By faith on heaven’s table-land, A higher plane .than I have found, Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.” — Selected. — o — August 20— "He would have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place where there is no straitness” (Job 36:16). God’s great intention for each one of His redeemed ones is that he should have plenty of room. He never intended any­ thing strait or narrow for the souls whom He died to set free. Did He only bring the captives out of one prison to let them creep into another? The entrance is by a strait gate indeed, so strait that the bur­ den of sin had to be left outside, and self- will and self-satisfaction with it. But this strait gate opens into a land “where there is no straitness.” His boundless love is the only boundary. It is a land of hills and valleys, and heights and depths. His promise to the captives in Egypt was, “I bring you into a good land and a large.” And while there is only one way to pass out of the land of bondage, .even thè blood-sprinkled door—only one place at which to pass into the Promised Land, even over Jericho’s walls, overthrown by faith and obedience, that one limited en­ trance leads info “a land of far distances,” a land where the soul has room to breathe, a large land where every spiritual fac­ ulty has scope, the land of His wonder­ ful will of love, where the strongest wing can soar without ever finding a lim.it but the love which frees while it fetters.

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