“My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof and be glad.” Has someone heard your joyous testimony for Christ and as a result of it his heart has been made eternally glad through salva tion? Psalm 34:3 exhorts us, “0 magni fy the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.” The word magnify simply suggests making something greater, in this case, the Lord. Keep in mind, however, that the actual object doesn’t change size. The difference is in the eyes of the beholder! Whenever we take our family to a baseball game, we usually go to the general admission section (we have a ministerial pass). This is a Many hundred years ago They ventured to remark That Noah had some carpenters To help him build the ark. But sad to say on that last day When Noah entered in, Those carpenters were left outside And perished in their sin. How sad to think they may have helped To build the ark so great, Yet still they heeded not God's Word And awful was their fate. Today the same sad fate exists Among the sons of men, They help to build the so-called Church Who are not born again. They stay behind for sacrament, They work, they sing, they pray; Yet never have accepted Christ, The Life, the Truth, the Way. Another .judgment day will come, As sure as came the flood, And only those will be secure Who shelter 'neath Christ's Blood. N O A H 'S CAR PEN T ER S
long way from the actual playing field. Team members look very small down below. We take along a pair of field glasses to see the players bet ter. Do the binoculars make the men any larger? No, they bring the men closer to our eyes. As God’s children, we are to be the Lord’s binoculars, telescopes, microscopes or whatever, to magnify Him in everything we do and say. This is our responsibility. Do you and I bring Christ into focus so that others may see and know Him better? The Psalmist goes on to add, “Let us exalt his name together.” God’s praises always sound best in con cert. The Bible exhorts us, “Not for saking assembling of yourselves to gether as the manner of some is; G ROW TH I stood the children, straight and tall By last year's marks upon the wall. Another year! How soon they go. And see how fast the children grow! And then I thought of how God's Word Says, "Grow in peace and in the Lord." And as I knelt with God alone He asked me gently, "Have you grown? Can you look back and understand How sun and rain came from My hand? The trials which M y love decreed. Did they not prove Me real indeed? Or would you change a single hour And miss the knowledge of My power? Do I seem nearer when you pray Than just a year ago today? And does your zeal for lost men die, Or greater grow, as years go by?" What deep and searching questions these! They kept me long upon my knees; Before His gaze my soul must own How very little it had grown. Dear Lord, this day may all men see That I grow daily more like Thee. — Barbara C. Ryberg
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