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tion of a second when the moon shall be eclipsed or the morning star pass across the face of the sun ten thousand years to come. Not one of them faileth or comes a moment tardy to its place. What wisdom here! And all that wisdom is at the command of our need. “ Why say- est thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that
Need and Supply HE measure of God’s supply is His riches in glory. Paul was deeply impressed by the riches of God. The word is constantly falling from his lips and from his pen: “Riches of mercy,” “riches of grace,” “riches- of glory,” “unspeak able riches.” He evidently had repeated glimpses into the treasury of God and was impressed by its abun
the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his un derstanding. He g i v e t h power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.” What d e p t h in our hearts is beyond His knowl edge? What entanglement in our affairs can He not unravel? What moving of outside forces can He not control ? What machina tions of adverse influence can He not confound? He that guides Arcturus and binds the influences of the Pleiades, is at the service of our honest need. A deeper glimpse of the riches of God’s glory is seen in the displays of His love. If God would supply all our need, He must be rich in power, in wisdom, and rich also in love. There n e e d s which neither are power nor wisdom can sup ply. Though His p o w e r turn every stone to bread, man does not live by bread alone. Though His wisdom make every star shine with knowledge, man does not live by information alone.
dance. He felt himself the child of a rich Father, and permitted to draw on Him for every legitimate -need. The door of that treasury is open to all of us. We may look and satisfy our selves ; we can see more than Paul ever saw. God’s riches of glory are seen in the manifesta tions of His power. He that would supply all our need must be rich in power. "Lift up y o u r eyes cm high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.” Our world, the planets and the suns, are only a few grains of Sand on the illimitable shores of space, all flung with worlds which are already on into the hundred millions, and on which the eyes and the arithmetic of man fail ; and all are the products of God’s power. God Himself challenges us, in our hours of need and of tumidity, to look into this treasury of His power.- What need of ours to
When Shall I Pray? By E velyn I ren e S pottswood (Pomona, Calif .)
When shall I pray, dear Father in heaven ? Teach me to know the time and the way; When to Thy children attention is given, Whether in darkness or whether by day? Came a sweet voice to my spirit, soft saying, - “Child, I ’m ne’er weary of hearing thy voice, Over the world everywhere mine are praying, For special prayer I allow thee thy choice. “Enter thy closet, I ’ll ever be waiting, Ready to listen and answer thy prayer; But be thou careful lest Satan, belating Thy time of coming, shall hinder thee there. Thou maycst pray to me, child, without ceasing, I read the heart, not the words of thy lips, Then shall thy fervor in prayer be increasing, Drinking the cup from which love ever sips. “Heart to heart talk, whether silent or spoken, Prayer, 0 my child, is the voice of. thy heart, Sing me thy song, tho’ thy lips show no token, I shall acknowledge that faithful thou art. Come thou in faith, to thy kind, loving Father; Doubt not He heareth, and gives what is best; Seek His throne boldly, there’s no need of awe there, For like a mother He’ll soothe thee to rest. “Come for the clasp of My hand in the mormng, Come to be guided aright through the day; - Come to be given the spirit’s adorning, ■ Come for thy morning kiss; child, Come alway. Then at the noontime, the midnight, and ever, Bring me thy burden, thy sorrow, thy care; Then fear thou not, there is nothing shall sever My child from Me; I will answer thy prayer.
There are needs of the heart, the affections and the con science, and the whole moral nature, that can be supplied only by love. What, if anything, can lift a man out of the fearful pit and the miry clay of sin? There lies the greatest need. Is there anything in God’s riches of glory to supply this need? Lift up your eyes and behold. God is power, God is wisdom, but God also is love. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” At best, we can see only a part of God’s power, only glimpses of His wisdom; but in Jesus Christ, we see the very depths of His love. God was power before the world
day is too heavy for that power ? Can great or small have any meaning here ? What does it signify to the sea whether you launch a pleasure boat or a fleet of battle ships on its power? It carries them all as a little thing. What can it signify to God today whether our need is great or small ? Whether it is a child saying, “I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to keep” ; or whether it is John Knox, lay ing a kingdom ; or David Livingstone, a continent on his heart. Can we not safely cast all our cares on such riches ? God reveals His riches of glory in the displays of His wisdom. He that would supply all our need must be wise. .So perfectly balanced and adjusted are the complicated motions of the universe that we can calculate to the frac
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