unto God. How fa r have you allowed the Spirit to proceed in your life? How much do you hinder Him? These are questions of vital impor- TH E JEW Scattered by God's avenging hand, Afflicted and forlorn, Sad wanderers from their pleasant land, Do Judah's children mourn; And e'en in Christian countries, few Breathe thoughts of pity for the Jew. Yet listen, Gentile, do you love The Bible's precious page? Then let your heart with kindness move To Israel's heritage; Who traced those lines of love for you? Each sacred writer was a Jew. And then as years and ages passed. And nations rose and fell. Though clouds and darkness oft were cast O'er captive Israel, The oracles of God for you Were kept in safety by the Jew. And when the great Redeemer came For guilty man to bleed. He did not take an angel's name, No, born of Abraham's seed, Jesus, who gave His life for you— The gentle Saviour— was a Jew. And though His own received Him not. And turned in pride away, Whence is the Gentile's happier lot? Are you more just than they? No! God in pity turned to you— Have you no pity for the Jew? Go, then, and bend your knee to pray For Israel's ancient race; A sk the dear Saviour every day To call them by His grace. Go, for a debt of love is due From Christian Gentiles to the Jew. tance to each of us. If we are ever going to be what the Lord had in mind for us, we must allow Him to do and work out His own divine pur poses and grace in our lives.
dividuals who were instrumental in your being led to the Lord Jesus Christ. How few of us fully appre ciate that we are intended to be links in the chain to bring others to sal vation by grace. Each of us ought to be ready and available to the Lord so that He might work out His own wonderful purposes through us in bringing other people to Himself. Do you think any people thank God that you were used as a link in the chain in leading them to eternal life? When Peter was introduced to the Lord, Christ said something rather remarkable to him. He declared, “Thou a rt Simon the son of Jona; thou shalt be called Cephas, which is being interpreted, A stone.” Jesus told him what he was and He told him what He was going to make him. In the same way He looks at us. Too often, however, we limit Almighty God. We read in the Old Testament how God planned to bring His peo ple out of Egypt and usher them into the promised land. Because of un belief, however, they spent 40 years in the wilderness. When the Lord Jesus went back to His home town, He had every in tention of doing great things there. Because of unbelief, however, He did no mighty works. The Holy Spirit will never violate the free will of man. We are the ones who limit Him. Have you allowed Him to ac complish all He purposes for you ever since the moment you came to know Him? No doubt Peter was confused by the words of the Lord, having ab solutely no idea what the experience was all about. The process of devel opment now began. Here was the raw material which, by the power of the Holy Spirit, the Lord would transform Peter into one mightily used of Himself. Even so it is with each individual believer. When the Lord Jesus looked at Peter, He didn’t see merely one great big hunk of fisherman; He saw a man who was going to be mighty
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