him a friend and adopting him into His own royal family! Since the Lord is omnipresent, no matter where we are, He is always there. The moment we tru st the Lord Jesus, immediately we are saved. The only way we can have fellow ship with the Lord is first to have His life in us. Then we can under stand and walk with Him. We must have something besides human life, for otherwise we would only care for human things and not those which are divine. There are five great miracles in this verse. The first is the miracle of God’s universal love. Then there is the miracle of the universal gift. While my wife and I had eight chil dren, I couldn’t give the same kind of present to all of them. When the youngest was bom, my oldest was 18 years of age. The two weren’t in terested in the same things. Do you see that this miracle is a gift to suit everybody, rich or poor, blind or ignorant, helpless or wicked? It meets eveiy person’s need perfectly. I have never known anyone who has received- the Lord to say later that he was sorry or disappointed. He truly satisfies every human heart. Next is the miracle of universal faith. The only thing everybody can do is to believe in God. If salvation required walking twenty feet, lame people couldn’t do it. If salvation cost as little as a quarter, some couldn’t pay, for there are millions of people who have never seen any money at all. If salvation came by singing a song lots of folks, who can’t sing a note, would be left out. How simple God makes it, “whosoever will may come,” “not willing that any should perish.” After this, there is a universal preservation. What do you know about you which isn’t in a state of deterioration? Shoes, automobiles, medicines, books, even people are perishing. Trust the Saviour and He will preserve you until it’s time to take you Home.
This is universal life in Christ which binds us all together. Have you appropriated it for your own life? Make Christ yours by faith just now! PARAPHRASE OF I CORINTHIANS 13 Though in the glamour of the public eye, I sway the emotions of men by my oratory or by my silver-tongued singing, or by my skillful playing, and then go home and gripe because sup per is late or because my clothes weren’t made to suit me, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I am able to impress others with my vast knowledge of the deep things of the Word of God, and though I am able to accomplish mighty things through faith so that I become famous among mpn as a remover of mountains, and have not the love that reads the deep longings of the hearts around the family circle and removes the barriers that grow up in shy and tender hearts, I am nothing. And though in the glamour of public praise I bestow all of my goods to feed the poor, and though I win the name and fame of a martyr by giving up my body to be burned, and yet close up like a clam at home or behave like a snapping turtle, knowing nothing of the glory of giving myself in unstinting self-denying service to those nearest and dearest, it profiteth me nothing. Love is never impatient, but kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs. Love is never rude, seeks not her own nor fights for her own right; is never resentful, never imagines that others are plotting evil against her, never broods over wrongs, never exults over the mistakes of others, but is truly gladdened by goodness. Love suffers silently, is always trust ful, always cheerful, always patient. Within the household is the add test of the truly yielded life. Now abideth the business, the church and the home, the most important of which is the home. “For if any provide not for his own, and especially for his own house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.” * * * It's often true that a big head is often a sign of a small man. 5
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