among your fellow man and you stand erect. Compare yourself with the average man and you’ll proclaim your morality. Get alone with God, however, thinking of His holiness and love and you can only exclaim, ‘I’m a sinner.’ ” At the end of life, only one thing really matters. That is our relationship to Jesus Christ. THE RED SEA When the children of Israel crossed the sea. It comforts my heart to know That there must have been many timorous ones Who faltered and feared to go. Feared the ribbon of road which stretched Ahead like a narrow track, With the waves piled high on either side And nothing to hold them back. Nothing to hold them back but a Hand They could neither see nor feel; Their God seemed distant and far away, And only the peril real. Yet the fearful ones were as safe as the brave. For the mercy of God is wide; Craven and fearless, He brought' them all Dry-shod to the other side. And I think of the needless terror and pain, We bring to our own Red Sea. Strengthen Thy timorous ones, dear Lord, And help us to trust in Thee. While Christ has no favorites, He does have “intimates.” Whether we be rich or poor, let us rejoice in Christ Jesus and live so close to Him that “the smell of eternity” shall be about us. “Only one life, ’twill soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last.”
world’s goods have a standing before God that is equal to the richest of saints. We are rich in peace, right eousness, hope, and contentment. Didn’t Paul speak of himself as hav ing nothing yet possessing all things? He said that so far as ma terial things were concerned he had learned how to abound and how to be abased. Some of us still living in this day of great prosperity in Amer ica can remember when we were just thankful for something to eat and wear. It never occurred to us that we had to have the latest gadgets in order to be happy. Notice, too, the high man. This is not teaching that in order to be right with God one who has wealth need dispose of what he has. It simply puts forward the fact that none of us dare trust in riches. William Evans tells how one day he went to comfort a man who once had much money. Then, through some misfor tune, he lost everything, including his home. Entering the man’s room, he heard him affirm, “A tent or a cottage, why should I care? They’re building a mansion for me over there. Though exiled from home yet still I can sing; all glory to God, I'm a child of the King!” Riches often are a great barrier, keeping men from Christ. While Jesus said, “How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God,” yet He didn’t say they couldn’t enter. Why should the rich man rejoice that he is brought low? When death comes, both the rich and the poor leave everything beh ind , except what they have sent on ahead as their eternal dividends. As the sweet ness and beauty go from a fading flower, so is the wretched end of the man who forgets and neglects God. Finally, think of the God-man, Christ Jesus our Lord. He is One who makes the difference between life and death, light and darkness, heaven and hell. G. Campbell Mor gan has said, “Measure yourself
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