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DATING OF POEM On page 31 of the August KING’S I BUSINESS you have quoted part of the j famous poem written by Jeanne Marie | Bouvieres de La Mothe Guyon which be gins “A Little Bird.” It is not known when this poem was written hut in one of her terms of im prisonment for her faith it was composed. But since she was born April 13, 1648 and died in June 1717, quite obviously the poem was not written in 1868. It will he interesting to see if any others will note this slight error. I have her wonderful biography, a book which has been out of print for many years and one which is certainly a real gem! Mrs. Betty Bruechert, Biola. (EDITOR’S NOTE: Mrs. Bruechert is quite correct although we have not heard from anyone else about the mistake. The life of Madam Guyon would certainly prove interesting reading, portions of which could perhaps be used in THE KING’S BUSINESS.) COMMENTS ON EDITORIAL This is to express appreciation for your good editorial in THE KING’S BUSINESS. Other expressions of appreciation have come to us from our men and we would like permission to reproduce this in the VOICE magazine. The subject of Catholicism of course is attracting a good deal of attention these days and your analysis of the Protestant Council on Roman Catholicism is a timely one. Please be assured of our continued prayer on behalf of Biola and your ministries there. Glen A. Lehman, National Executive Secretary, In dependent Fundamental Churches of America, Chicago, III. Thank God for your recent editorial. It would appear that the time is ripe for a 20th Century Reformation, spearheaded by men bom of the same Spirit who led forth Luther, Calvin, Huss, Wycliffe, etc. I They were privileged, at great cost, to lead I God’s people out of the abominable Baby- \ Ion and all her blood-denying, Christ-re- jecting sins. Is there not a 20th century man of God to draw the line of cleavage existing in truth between that great ecumenical Baby lon now taking shape before our very eyes, and the blood-bought children of God by faith in Christ Jesus? If there exists such a man the Spirit of God shall raise him up, and I predict that he will be a man whose conscience and actions are bound absolutely and decisively only by the Word of God as we know it. It will be a man who fears God to the extent that he fears not even the most exalted of men, a man of the Spirit and of His wis dom. He will know what the will of the Lord is as clearly set forth in the Word, and who, by reason of use has his senses exercised to discern both good and evil. Thanks, too, for your crystal-clear ar ticles on the subject of Seventh-day Ad ventism. Robert Kluttz, Missionary, Wakkanai, Hokkaido, Japan.
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A MESSAGE from the editor As the 1960 Presidential e l e c t i o n draws near in creasing emphasis is being placed upon the religious factor involved in the cam paign. At one extreme, it has been declared that the coun try would be c o m p l e t e l y ruined if a Roman Catholic were to become President. It has been suggested that pos sibly the Vatican might be moved to the United States, and that religious freedom- as we have known it in this great country since the days of our f o u n d i n g fathers — would cease to exist. The other extreme is represented by those who refuse to say anything about the religious situa tion, who will not face it fairly and squarely, and who set up a cry of "religious bigotry!" whenever the matter is mentioned. We believe both of these extremes to be wrong. In the matter of selecting a leader of these United States for four, and perhaps eight, years of service as President, it is quite proper, and indeed it is the only sensible thing, to find out the candidate's religious convictions. For it is quite possible for one's religious convictions to be so deeply rooted in his outlook upon life in general, and his public office in particular, that his every decision of im portance may be colored by his religious ideology. This could jeopardize the welfare of the country of which he is the head. It has been truly declared, "Men hold opinions, but con victions hold a man. " One's religious convictions can hold an individual in such a manner that his general usefulness to his country might be significantly impaired. It should be remembered that in this country a man may believe what he wishes to believe. On the basis of this principle, a person has the perfect right to be a Roman Catholic if he so desires. However, because of certain outstanding characteristics of the Roman Catholic system, there is a grave question whether a man who chooses to be a Roman Catholic should be elected to the highest office that this country has to bestow upon one of its citizens. The simple facts of history reveal how the Roman Catholic Church has exercised power over govern ments wherever it was possible. History is replete with in stances of kings, princes, and rulers of every rank and file who were influenced, and even coerced, into conducting their political offices in accordance with the dictates of "Mother Church." Recalcitrants have been deposed, overthrown, ex communicated ; governments have toppled and great persecu tion and suffering have resulted when Rome's power was op posed or threatened.
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It is readily granted that Roman Catholicism in the Unit ed States appears under a far different guise from that in so-called Roman Catholic countries. This has been true in the past. It is the same now. But no one should be so naive as to suppose that this condition is in the least satisfac tory to Rome. On the contrary, this condition exists only because the Roman hierarchy recognizes the fact that re ligious freedom is so firmly entrenched in the minds and hearts of Americans that Rome does not dare assert its auto cratic and dictatorial powers. To elect a Roman Catholic President would be tantamount to allowing the camel's nose in the Arab’s tent. In view of Rome's own claims that "Rome never changes", it would be expected that it would be only a matter of time until reli gious liberty as we would know it would be a thing of the past and we would find ourselves under the same domination under which peoples are living in Catholic countries today, and have been living during past generations. If an out-and-out Communist and a Roman Catholic were to be nominated for President of the United States, there might be no alternative but to elect a Catholic. But such an al ternative does not now exist, nor is it likely ever to exist. The Republican candidate has demonstrated his ability to render this country most valuable service, and is unalter ably opposed to the church over state ideology, so certainly the only logical thing for us as Americans to do is to de clare once more by our vote unqualified opposition to having any man in the White House who would ever be faced with the choice of violating his own religious convictions or ful filling his constitutional responsibilities to the United States. The electorate faces issues which transcend polit ical affiliation. The United States is predominantly a Protestant country. This is a time when Protestants should unite and declare once again that this land must continue to enjoy religious liberty, and must not in any way be domi nated by a foreign power, whether religious or political in nature. If the Roman Catholic candidate is elected in November, it will be only because Protestant Christians are putting political affiliations before the great religious convic tions of men of former generations like Martin Luther, John Calvin and the other great reformers who repudiated the po litico-religious system which attempted to suppress their consciences and to dictate every phase of their private lives. The election this coming November will disclose in large measure just how strong are the convictions of the Protestants in the United States. It will be a sorry situa tion indeed if we as a country allow our religious convic tions to become subservient to political affiliations. As Christians, we must be much in prayer that the Lord will rule and over-rule in the affairs of this nation, that His will may be done, and this beloved land of ours may continue to be a place where one may worship God according to the dictates of his heart and conscience. Paul said, "With a great sum obtained I this freedom." With a great price we too obtained our freedom. Let us keep it that way.
D R . W I L L IA M CU LB ER T SO N President, M o od y Bible Institute speaks on the fundamentals of the faith. CHR IST ’S COM ING AGAIN “The Holy Spirit through Peter said, ‘In the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming?’ (II Peter 3:3, 4). And so the denier of Christ’s return is fulfilling another prophecy given in the same Bible that announces His return. “This blessed hope, this promise of the glorious coming of our great God and Saviour— both His coming for and His coming with His saints— is necessary to the rounding out of the program, the climaxing of God’s working in history. The perfection of God’s people, the re ward of the good, the punishment of the evil, the setting right of earthly relation ships, the blessed restoration of God’s ancient people, the answer to the believ ing prayer of centuries — ‘Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,’ the entering of our Lord into His crown rights as King of kings and Lord of lords— all these await the day of His coming. “While recognizing his place and his responsibility in the present society of which he is a member, the believer in the Word of God sets his course according to the teaching of that Word. ‘Heaven and earth shall pass away’; so he may not live only for material things. ‘Each one of us shall give account of himself to God’ ; so he must live now with that accounting in view. ‘He (Christ) must reign’ ; so he, the believer, is willing to be in the minor ity, willing to bear the reproach of sin ners, for his eye is on another day. ‘My reward is with me’ ; so he waits his revela tion, his recognition and his reward.” Every Christian should have a copy of Dr. Culbertson’s book God’s Provision for H oly Living, a happy blending of Bible study and practical exhortation. 112 pages, paper bound. For your free copy, write Moody Bible Institute, Dept K-0-869, 820 N. LaSalle Street, Chicago 10, Illinois.
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Dr. Bob Jones, Jr., president of Bob Jones University, reports that the radio voice of the organization, WMUU, has received approval for FM program tests of their new sta tion. The AM-FM operation will be broadcasting stereophonic programs in the near future. Three of the University’s programs are recorded for distribution to 130 other radio stations in the United States and eight foreign countries. Dr. Mark Fakkema has become gen eral manager of Christian Schools Service, Inc. The purpose of the or ganization is to perform service for Christian p r i v a t e and parochial schools. Main offices are located in Chicago. Mr. Lorin Whitney, well known gos pel recording artist, hosted a group of Western Christian radio station managers when the group met re cently in the Southland. Shown in the Glendale studios from left to right are: Bob Ball, KGDN, Seattle; Herb Wells, REAR, San Francisco; Arvid Erickson, KGVW, Belgrade, Mon tana; Whitney; Vern Cobbett, KCFA, Spokane; Dick Palmquist, REAR, San Francisco; Carl Auel (hidden), KEBR, S a c r a m e n t o . Also attending the
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article on page 48). Missionaries are becoming more and more aware of the need for giving the peoples of every land the gospel message printed in their own language. Rev. Joseph Zacchello, ex-priest and editor of THE CONVERT has had three books published on the subject of Catholicism by Loizeaux Brothers, New York. “ Ins and Outs of Roman ism,” “ Secrets of Romanism,” and “ The Two BabyIons” are being given wide circulation because of current political issues. Dr. Arthur P. Whitney has been ap pointed executive secretary for na tional distribution by the American Bible Society. Last year ABS distrib uted more than ten million portions of the Scriptures within the borders of our country. Mr. Franklin Cabezas, president of DIA (Difusiones InterAmericanas), reported from the board’s recent meet ing in Costa Rica, that the Latin America Mission will contruct a new building, a floor of which will be used for the organization’s promotion of evangelical programs throughout the Americas. Stations represented were TTFC, HCJB, HOXO, a n d YNOL.
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T o d a y I’m asking you to look at an old problem: why is there a moral order? Notice that I didn’t say, “ Is there a moral order?” I am assuming that there is a moral order. W h y did God impose on us a sensitivity to morality? W e ll, we wouldn’t be man if we didn’t have a moral component in us— we’d be beasts. And we couldn’t be in the image of God if we didn’t have a moral component. But even these two answers do not satisfy me. Perhaps the follow ing illustration w ill lead to an answer. I saw once where some children were having a good time playing croquet. Then someone moved the ball a little with his foot, pretending that it was fun. letting others know he was doing it. Then someone else, because it was “ fun” and obviously “ clever,” did the same thing. This gave those two an unfair advantage— they were kicking the ball, while according to the rules it had to be hit with a mallet— so others started kicking too. Soon they were throwing it and batting it out of turn. Then there was no more game— there couldn’t be without rules. So the children who really wanted to play moved on because that game had been replaced by chaos. The one who had started the fun-cheating didn’t seem to notice that he had ruined the game, but his vanity was inflated because he had been so “ clever”— though he could no longer play either. That game we can compare with life here on earth. Frequently someone fails to keep the rules. H e does something “ cute,” or does something against the moral order, or attacks the Bible; and he thinks that this
increases his importance. Actually he is spoiling the life game and social chaos has momentarily resulted. If the game had been continued on the high moral order of its included rules, there would have been a higher level of pleasure— that integrated pleasure of playing the game, which is similar to the pleasure of the integration of a symphony orchestra. The expense of such pleasure would have been the keeping of the rules. N ow we come to the question, Are these rules eternal? Are they temporal? W e begin to find an answer in Mark 2 :2 7 (W eym ou th ) where Jesus H imself said, “ The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.” That tells us that the Sabbath was to be kept for the sake of man— not because it was an eternal law , a law of heaven. God gave man the law because it was good for him . M an needed the rest and so God prescribed rest through a rule. (That’s the way we do w ith our children. It’s good for them to get their sleep, so we make it a rule that they have to go to bed at such and such a time.) From this, I conclude that the ultimate reason for the laws of the moral order is that they are good for man and good for his society as a whole. Some people reject this point of view saying that we must obey God’s laws whether they are good for us or not. They are commands of God and that is all that is relevant, these folk affirm. Some say that these laws are eternal in the heavens. I argue that the commandment against adultery, at least, must be equated with a human order. Since there is no
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On the mission field, when people move from a pagan social order to a Christian social order, we need to be aware of the problem of transition. We tend to say that some rules are eternal in the heavens and must be ful filled, whereas actually the thing that is eternal in the heavens is not the particular set of rules for a particular society, but that which is eternal is an insistence on activity which is good and lovely and integrated and wholesome. We should be careful lest in the name of a moral order we, in fact, injure the new believers as individuals by confusing these complementary phases of life and truth. That is what the fifteenth chapter of Acts teaches us. But for a few exceptions, the Holy Spirit did not fasten specific forms on those converts. “ Now, therefore, why provoke God, by laying on the necks of these disciples a yoke?” (Acts 15:10, Weymouth) There are things that we must teach because God requires them, and hence a Christian must do them. But we don’t want our children or our converts to think of God as a reasonless tyrant—although He is indeed our boss. We want them to learn that the commands of God are all meant to us for good, because He loves us. We want them to know that what He requires of us, He requires not because He is Boss and bigger, but rather because He loves us and that it is for our good. We know the character of God by looking at Jesus Christ. What we see of the character of Jesus Christ we know to be true of the Father. We never have seen Jesus acting like a tyrant, demanding homage. He was meek and mild and had no jealousy or envy of worship. Jesus Christ, the meekest of all, requires those things of us because they are good for us. For that same reason He built into our genetic equipment a generalized response to a moral order. When we learn to operate within that moral order, as taught us by Jesus Christ and through the Scriptures, then we’ll be ready to live abundantly (John 10:10). But life abundant can only be had within a system; it can’t be in a vacuum. An abundant life has to be played in terms of a symphony with its integrated chords, its counterpoint. It has to have its melodies and its harmonies. All this requires rules which hold us into a uniform, operating, total harmonious society into which God has come and in which He became incarnate. That’s what He came for. It was not to bind us with the chains of arbitrary eternal moral rules. The rules which He gives us He teaches us because without them we cannot have a happy integrated game. If we can understand this, it may free us from the frenzied care as to whether or not we have kept some particular detail of life’s ritual. We may be free from worry about details as such and can be vigorously happy as we try to do good for others, knowing that if we are trying to do what is right, unselfishly, we don’t have to worry about overlooking some legal detail. We should teach new converts to be concerned that they do what is good and right and helpful. This does not free them from the requirements of detailed honesty, of carefulness of others in the home, and of faithfulness in the home. That is a part of the rules that are required for the good of society— the best kind of society. Perhaps it can all be summarized by Deuteronomy 10:12, 13, “ And now, Israel, what doth \he Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, to keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for th y good ?” That’s why there is a moral code. Laws were made for man, not man for laws.
necessity for it to be ordered in heaven, it must be related to earth and not to eternal angels or to God. Therefore it seems clear to me that the law was made for the good of man and his society. Now we look at Galatians 5:14 (Weymouth). “ For the entire Law is summed up in the one precept, ‘You a r e t o l o v e y o u r n e i g h b o r a s y o u r s e l f .’ ” And in Matthew 22:39 Jesus also said, “ Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Why is the law fulfilled by loving one’s neighbor? Because love seeks the neighbor’s good positively, whereas the law prevents the neighbor’s ill negatively. These are opposite sides of the same coin. One side of the coin says that we are not to injure our neighbor; we are to refrain from doing him ill; we are not to step over into his orbit for harm. According to the other side of the coin we are required by God to do our neighbor good positively, to step into his orbit for his good. This, then, is the reason the law is fulfilled by love. Notice that it has nothing to do with permanent details of' an eternal moral law as such. Rather it has to do with the ultimate purpose behind the moral order, that is, to maintain society for the good of its members. If we seek to maintain the good of the members of society, we are fulfilling the law. Galatians 5:18 gives us a similar point of view. “ But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.” Why aren’t we under law if we are led of the Spirit? Because if we walk in the Spirit, we have positive control of our inward states and attitudes. If we walk in the law, we have negative control, avoiding bad attitudes in wardly. If we positively control our mental state and our actions arising from this inward mental state, then there will be no negative state to be taken care of. There fore the law would not be needed. We would not be under the law. It would not be aimed at us if we were consistently, positively led of the Spirit. Verse 23 implies that there needs to be no law concerning goodness—law is designed as a negative control of the bad. Love is the positive doing good to others which eventually reflects on society, and also reflects on one’s self. Galatians 3:24 says, “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.” Why do we need a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ? Specifically, how does the law bring us to Christ? For the answer, let’s look at an example from linguistics. If we want to learn a language we’ve never studied before, we have to learn various sentence patterns. Perhaps we can think of a sentence pattern as being made up of a series of empty cups— a “ subject” cup, and an “ object” cup, and so on. We fill these cups with the meaningful words we choose for each occasion. If the empty sentence-forms are utilized adequately in context, then the total context plus the words take on total meaning, total communication, but we have to have the pattern into which we can pour the meanings. I have the feeling that the law is somewhat like this. If a person learns the law, then he has a pattern for social behavior. He has an available structure, ready to be filled with deeds significant for living and communi cating with others, and for living and communicating with God. I think that it is in some such way that the law is a schoolmaster bringing us to Christ. How does this relate to the way we teach our children? Well, to some extent we teach them law. We spank them to help them to acquire a form of honesty. It’s an empty form, an empty cup, a general principle at first, in that it doesn’t have the meaning content that it even tually should have.
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C o m i n g from a home of strong religious and political I convictions, I was well aware of the need for in tegrity in government even as a child. My family’s in terest in the affairs of both the church and the state aroused in me a similar interest. I came to share not only their abhorrence of corruption in government, but also their respect and admiration for those leaders who up held the most noble precepts of our nation. My child hood heroes included nearly as many political figures as cowboys and athletes. I’ll never forget the time one of these heroes visited Salem. Our school band welcomed him at the capitol where he was to give a speech. After the program he shook hands with each member of the band and thanked us for playing. This greatly impressed us, but we were really thrilled when we later received personal letters of thanks from Washington, D.C. I framed my letter and placed it among my most prized boyhood possessions. Through the influence of such men and the encourage ment of my parents, I seriously began to consider a politi cal career. Through reading I acquainted myself with great leaders of the past and present and tried to dis cover the secrets of their success. I discovered that the most effective leaders were those who dedicated them selves to the highest ideals and who worked unceasingly for the realization of them. From the enthusiasm of Jeffer son to the dedication of Lincoln, there was a contagious spirit about these men and I soon found myself dreaming of how I might best serve my country. This boyhood dream later developed into an earnest desire to become a politician and all my education was directed to that end. I became more practical as the years passed and began adopting certain rules for political suc cess. For instance, from the 1948 national election I learn ed that overconfidence could be deadly and decided then and there never to take an election for granted; to pre sent my case to the people rather than to the politicians; and to speak to any audience, no matter how small. An opportunity to apply these rules came in 1949 when I accepted a teaching position in the political science department at Willamette University. My campus activities involved me in many issues concerning state government and I soon found myself nominated for the state legislature. After winning the election and serving two terms in the lower house, I went on to the State Senate. In the meantime, I was appointed Dean of Stu dents at the University. All of these honors were highly encouraging to me as an aspiring young politician. But with these outward advancements came a disturbing inner awareness of my inadequacy in the area of spiritual life. One of my major duties as Dean of Students was to counsel college men who sought advice regarding aca demic or personal problems. The tremendous responsi bility of this task was overwhelming. I often felt that the spiritual problems they presented to me were not completely answered in my own life and that I had no right to counsel others on matters which I had not worked out personally. This fact affected not only my position as Dean of Students, but my entire career. If I could offer little real spiritual help to individuals, what did I have to offer the state of the nation or the world? Not only did I wonder about my personal inadequa cies, but I also began to think my purpose in life and my motive for living. This resulted primarily from my con tact with a group of students who had asked me to serve as adviser to a Bible study group. These students, many of whom became my very close friends by their lives and by the goals for which they were striving, brought to mind some of the things I had heard in church about what Jesus Christ wanted of us. When I compared my
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W o r r y has wrought havoc and distress to countless millions. Thousands have shortened their lives by it, and even more have been made bitter by dropping this poison into their souls. Overwork is often named as a cause for breakdowns and other illnesses, but work seldom hurts. It is worry that injures and impairs. Is worry necessary? We might think so by the amount of it we do, but those who know the Lord can live without it. They may take everything to Him in prayer. Not only may they take it there, but they have the wonderful privilege of leaving it there. We are to worry about nothing and pray about everything. What we don’t pray about we usually worry about. Prayer leads through the door of faith into the presence of God; worry leads through the door of anxiety into the darkness of loneliness and discouragement. If prayer rules the life, worry will be defeated and victory will be the result. David cried out to God, “Evening and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.” ' Of course, there are always some who would like to live without trials or testings, of any kind. I suppose this would seem comfortable and enjoyable, but what kind of persons do you think we would be? How could we learn to trust and rely on the Lord if we were not forced to turn from ourselves on occasions to wholly lean on Him? The sorrows and heartaches we bear are but lessons to be learned in God’s school of grace. The lesson hardest to learn stays with us the longest. Take just a minute or two and hastily reflect back over the years. Consider the hours when you thought you were forsaken of God. Were you really? Doubtless some of these trials are still shrouded in mystery so far as you are concerned, but haven’t you clearly recognized God’s infinite purposes in many of them? Are you not a better self-made ideals with Christ’s, I found certain conflicts. It seemed as though my purpose was self-centered while the purpose of the students might best be expressed in the words of the apo6tle Paul: “For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.” 1 Their purpose was to live completely for Jesus Christ. Their motivation was a love for the Son of God. Their enthusiasm for the Bible was not just an academic or scholarly enthusiasm, but a sin cere desire to know the Hero of the Bible in a more inti mate way. This was a real challenge to me. As I have said, this idea was not completely new to me, as I had always been a member of the church, at tending regularly and giving financial aid. This relation ship did not satisfy me, but I gave it little thought be cause of the press of business. But now, as I saw the impact Christ had made on the lives of these students, I had to re-evaluate my conception of Christianity. Through them and many outstanding Christian leaders whom they invited to speak on the campus, I discovered that real Christianity is not a relationship to an organization—the church—but a relationship to Jesus Christ. After this I began to read the Bible in the evenings seeing if I could find some of the answers for which I was looking. More and more as the great Gospel message began to make sense, I discovered what all can discover if they only look. All we need to do is put our faith in
Christian as a result? Have you not learned how to rely on the Lord more completely? The Psalmist knew the source of rich encouragement. “ I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.” 2 “I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou Lord, only makest me dwell in safety ,”3 You may dwell in peace and con fidence without despair or worry, for the Lord cannot fail. This He promises. “ I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.” * With such a consoling truth flooding your heart and soul you can go to bed at night, free of care, ready to sleep. Irrespective of the disturbing instances of the day, you may bow and commit everything to the Lord and “lay . . . down in peace.” You may rest perfectly, having the Lord’s assurance that you may dwell in safety. The Psalmist makes it clear that the “Lord, only” makes this possible. Psychology cannot do it. Right thinking is not enough. It must be full and complete reliance on the Lord. Of course, it is impossible to rely on the Lord until you know Him. Many count on God, but they have never really met Him. They only know about Him. To enjoy His enduring promises you must know Him, acknowledge your sin, and claim Jesus Christ as the one who died for your sin and rose again. “ Come unto me, all y e that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” 5 “ In everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God, and the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ.” 6 “ Casting all your care upon him [Jesus Christ]; for he careth for y o u ” 1 'Psalm 55:17; 2Ps^lm 16:8; 3Psalm 4:8; +Hebrews 13:5;. 5Matthew 11:28; 6Philippians 4:6,7; T Peter 5:7. Christ to make this possible. “ But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.”2 I saw that for 31 years I had lived for self and decided I wanted to live the rest of my life only for Jesus Christ. I asked God to forgive my self-centered life and to make my life His own. I was again assured by thè words of Paul that “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 5 Following Jesus Christ has been an experience of increasing challenge, adventure and happiness. How true are His words: “/ am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”* It is not to a life of ease and mediocrity that Christ calls us, but to the disciple-like Christ-empowered life. No matter what field we are in, we are called to give our complete allegi ance to Him. No cause, noble as it may seem, can be satis fying or purposeful without the direction of Christ. I can say with all sincerity that living a committed Chris tian life is truly satisfying because it has given me true purpose and direction by serving not myself but Jesus Christ. References: '1 Cor. 4:5; 2John 1:12; 32 Cor. 5:17; +John 10:10. (Articles on these pages are available in printed form from the American Tract Society, New York, N.Y.)
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