prepared, but when that hour strikes, will you be found without oil as were these thoughtless five? These virgins, waiting for the bridegroom, fell asleep. Are you “dozing off” spiritu ally? Do you say, “Well, I anticipated the coming of the Lord, but He hasn’t arrived, so I’m getting a little tired.” It isn’t long before you are no differ ent than the rest of the world. The Scripture tells us, “Awake, thou that sleepest.” Paul declared, “Awake to righteousness and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.” STUDY FOR THE TASK Have you ever stopped to think what you are getting paid, but what what you are getting paid, but what you are actually worth.) An hour may have only sixty minutes in it, but suppose your entire future for time and eternity hinged upon it? What would that hour then be worth? In the world of business statistics, one man’s hour may be worth $1.50, another’s $3.80, another’s $25.00, and so forth. But God doesn’t count value in this same manner. A $2.OO-an-hour factory employee might also be a fine consecrated Sunday school teacher who has a class of eager boys and girls looking to him for Christian guidance. The way he accepts that responsibil ity may affect the eternal destiny of some person. Who then can measure the true value of a single hour? Is it too much to ask a church or youth worker to spend a few hours in prep aration when young people will be giving many hours of their lives each year looking toward him for guid ance? On the surface, an hour may be only an hour. But, on the other hand, you may look upon it as sixty minutes of opportunity for eternity. Your boss may rate you at $3.00 an hour, but God rates you as invalua ble in His program of evangelism. Therefore, let us study to show our selves approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth.
"HELP WANTED" A recent bulletin from the F.B.I., and the office of J. Edgar Hoover be gins with this interesting want ad: Wanted: Young people to help bury America. Openings for pallbear ers of truth and gravediggers of de mocracy. No prior experience neces sary. This is just the antithesis of a want ad which Biola might place, if we needed more students, to recruit sol diers of the cross. Mr. Hoover goes on to explain, however, “A record number of young people are now en tering college classrooms to engage in one of man’s most noble pursuit: the search for truth through the acquisi tion of knowledge. But communism stipulates the ‘truth’ its scholars must embrace and spreads its venom ous lies and distortions through every available medium . Top communist party functionaries decided in Octo ber, 1963, that additional measures should be taken to recruit young citi zens. By spreading its poison through young veins, gangrenous communism is attempting to render the future America a quadruple amputee—a na tion without freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion. The youth of this nation, armed with the scalpel of truth, can and must cut this disease from the body of America.” A tremendous message from this great American. Here at Biola we have an army of more than 1,300 Christ-dedicated young men and wom en who will be the spiritual leaders of tomorrow, missionaries, pastors, teachers, and Christian workers in every area of life. You may feel there is little you can do to combat the in sidious tentacles of communism, but why not invest in the lives of those who can and vnll, who are dedicated to this very purpose, as they proclaim the positive and liberating Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. You may not be able to do a great deal, financially, but you could help, with whatever you send, enabling us to train ONE student. Make it a matter of con cerned prayer. 12
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