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YOUNG PEOPLE continued A man may be dishonest with God in the matter of his time. How much of your time do you give to God? Is it asking too much to give God one tenth of the time He gives us? This would amount to less than one day in seven. Some church-members think they have done God a service if they attend a single one-hour-long meeting on the day that is rightly called “the Lord’s Day” . What blessing would come to the church if everyone who claims to be a Christian would give God the entire day, that is, all day Sunday? If this were to happen every church would be filled to over flowing Sunday morning and Sunday evening, and without doubt the blessing would spill over to the Wednesday night meeting, too. Surely God deserves a portion of your talents. The world is full of talent going to waste as far as God is concerned. He- is the giver of every ability, hut how few use that ability to bring glory to His name? W e are told that “the chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever” . This is true. If you can sing or play a musical instrument, or teach, or do any special thing, you ought to use that gift, at least in some measure for the glory of God. Are you doing it? Am I Honest With Myself? It is possible to be honest with other men and not with yourself. Are you cheating yourself out of great riches, spiritually I mean? Perhaps some of you are cheating yourself out of heaven. What a tragedy is this. We are reminded of Ahithophel who put his household in order and then went out and hanged him self (2 Sam. 17:23). Are you like this? You are perhaps very diligent in every thing that pertains to this life, but what about the next? It will do you good to read and study the following passages: Matthew 6:19-24; Luke 12:16-34; 1 Cor inthians 3:12-23; Col. 3:1-4, etc. Some of you a^e cheating yourselves out of the blessings of love, joy, peace and the other fruits of the blessed Spirit (Gal. 5:22,23). Why let the devil rob you of these things? These are your birthright. If Christ is your Saviour claim these blessings, and cease robbing yourself of your heritage. Am I Honest With Others? As a Christian you ought to be. Much harm has come to the cause of Christ because some professing believers do not live a life of honesty toward others. Study Psalm 15 and Colossians 3:9, 10 in this connection. Note in these Scriptures that the emphasis is on “ walking uprightly” ; this means living a consistent Christian life. The Holy Ghost teaches that a be liever must “ work righteousness” ; this means Christian behavior regarding other men. The Christian is never to lie, but is to “ speak the truth in his heart” . If the truth is in his heart he will speak it with his lips. The believer is not to speak evil of another man (Psalm 15:3); nor is he to do evil to his neighbor; nor is he to enter into enmity with his neighbor; the be liever is to make friends of God’s children
(v. 4 ); he is to he honest in his business dealings (v. 5 ); he is to tell the truth always (Col. 3:9 ); he is to live like a man who has been born again ought to live (Col. 3:9,10). May the Lord help us to he Christians not in word only hut also in word and in deed, thus shall we bring glory to God and credit to the cause of Christ: (Cp. Matt. 7:21-23.) June 21, 1953 It Doesn't Belong to Me Eph. 2:19-22; Heb. 12 :1 ,2 These topics are assigned to me and I have nothing to do with their selection. Sometimes, therefore, it is difficult to know exactly what the author of the topics had in mind, especially when the Scriptures chosen to accompany ,the topic do not appear to be especially relevant. This is my problem here. The Ephesian passage teaches the unity of the body of Christ and His headship over the Church; the passage in Hebrews teaches the great truth that Christ is the beginner and the finisher of His Church and the originator of spiritual life in each believer. In light of these truths we are probably correct in surmising that the thought of the topic is that the church belongs to Christ and not to us in the sense that every believer draws his very life from the Saviour. This is very true, and -suggests a number of topics that ought to be of value to every child of God. My Life is Not My Own Many people live as if they owned their own lives. We are reminded of the man our Lord calls a fool in Luke 12:16-21. The great mistake made by the rich man is that of thinking that he was the owner of both his own soul and all his pos sessions. He forgot that he owed his very existence to God much less the abundance of the things which he pos sessed. Notice how many times the rich fool uses the words I and mine. But are we not guilty of the same sin? Since your life is not your own be cause God made you, read Genesis, chap ters 1 and 2 and see that every creature is the product of the creative power of God. He owns every creature in His vast universe by right of creation. But God also owns you by right of re demption. Every Christian is the special and peculiar possession of God (1 Cor. 6:19,20; Rom. 12:1, 2; 1 Peter 2:9-12). Now, since this is true, how ought the Christian to conduct himself. In the first place, he ought to acknowledge the Lord- ship of Christ over his life. This is what the Apostle did when he discovered the truth that Christ died for him (Gal. 2:20; Phil. 1:21). Because Christ owns you if you have received. Him as your Saviour you should make your life available to Him (Acts 9:6; 1 Cor. 6:19, 20). God saved you, not only to make heaven your home, but in order that He might use you to reach other people for Him. Your task and mine, and our major task in life, is to discover how best we may glorify Him. For some of us full surrender to Christ as our Lord will mean entering the min istry, or becoming missionaries, or enter-
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