October 1929
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Crumbs from the King’s Table By the Editor
A Morning Prayer “Lord, make me quick to see Each task awaiting me, And quick to do; ■ Oh, grant me strength, I pray, With lowly love each day, And purpose true, To go as Jesus went, Spending and being spent, Myself forgot.” The Joy of the Lord f HRISTIAN joy is a by-product of fellowship with God. The joy of heaven will be largely the joy of unhindered fellowship. The reason ?we do not have more joy in our Christian lives is because we do not live in fellowship with God. We are out of fellowship with Him because of unconfessed sin. Sin separates a believer from God, and the only way to get back the fellowship and the joy of fellowship is to confess the sin to Him. David lived in unconfessed sin for a time. He said, “When I kept silent my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long; for day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Then I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity o f my sin.” It was only after confession that he could sing: “He took me from a fearful pit And from the miry clay; Upon a rock He set my feet, Establishing my way; He put a new song in my mouth, My God to magnify; Many shall see it and shall fear And on the Lord rely.” There is no other way for a child of God to get back the joy than by definite dealing with the sin that caused the separation; as there is no other way for a child of God to get back fellowship with his brethren until he confesses his wrongdoing toward his brethren. Restored Testimony W HEN David lost his joy he lost his testimony. “Re store unto me the joy o f thy salvation, . . . then shall I teach transgressors thy way, and sinners shall be converted unto thee.” Christian joy can not be separated from Christian testimony. “The joy of the Lord is your strength.” The cause of Christ suffers because many of His servants are unfaithful in preaching the message of grace. But I think it is suffering more because many of God’s saints are living in unconfessed sin and without a testimony. The Holy Spirit is grieved, we are told, be
cause of “wrath, malice, evil speaking,” and other sins that interfere with His power. Child of God, the great revival we are praying for will begin in your own life when you allow God to deal with your own sin. Believing God "X T ANY Christians lack joy and power because when -*-VA they confess their sin they do not trust God to keep His Word. They do not leave their sin with God. “I f we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Some time ago a man said, “A great sin overtook me when I was a young man, and I have been confessing it every day since that time, but I can get no peace and I can get no joy because every day the sin is before me.” What was wrong? The wrong was in not believing God. When God says, “If ye confess, I forgive,” He means what He says. When a child disobeys his father he is out of fellowship with his father. When he confesses his disobedience and manifests sorrow, the fellowship is re stored because the father forgives. But what would the father think if his son would go to him every day and confess the same sin over again? A father is always grieved when his child doubts his word, and our Father is grieved when we doubt Him. “He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.” The last time I was with Dr. Hinson, of precious memory, was on a trip from Vancouver to Seattle. We sat on the deck of the ship almost all night. Among many things he told me was of his last trip from Liverpool to New York. On the .ship in mid-ocean one morning while talking with the captain he was tossing up a fifty-cent piece and catching it. This went on for some minutes until he missed and the silver rolled off the deck into the sea. He said, “Captain, how deep is it here?” The cap tain replied, “As near as I can tell, Hinson, it is about four miles deep where we are. Why ?” “Because,” said Dr. Hinson, “my sins are down where the fifty-cent piece is and God will not find them until I find my fifty cents.” “He hath buried our sins in the depths o f the sea.” “Far as east from west is distant, He hath put away our sin; Like the pity of a father, Hath the Lord’s compassion been.” Your heavenly Father knows when you are sorry for your sin. You have told Him about it; leave it with Him and do not allow Satan to bother you with it any more. God Wants Us to Have Victory M UST I keep on committing the same sin from day •to day? Can I have no victory over it? To illus trate—I have a bad temper. I have had it all my life. My parents were Scotch-Irish and our. folks descended from
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