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And then I woke another day And carelessly went on my way. The whole day long I did not try To wipe a tear from any eye; I did not try to share the load Of any brother on my road; I did not even go to see The sick man just next door to me. Yet once again when day was done I prayed, “O Lord, bless everyone.” But as I prayed, into my ear There came a voice that whispered clear: ‘‘Pause, hypocrite, before you pray, Whom have you tried to bless today? God’s sweetest blessings always go By hands that serve Him here below.” —The Colored Churchman. Our God Is Adequate “Be careful for nothing . . . My God shall supply all your need” (Phil. 6:6, 19). I saw a little wild flower. “Do you get lonely at night?” I asked. “ God’s stars watch over me when I sleep.” “What do you do when you are thirsty?” I inquired. “I ask the sun to draw me a drink of water,” the flower replied. “What do you do when the sun gets hot?” I asked. “ God sends the winds to cool my cheek,” was the answer. If God puts all the resources of nature back of the flower that blooms today and withers tomor row, why should I worry? God is my Father.—Bob Jones. 20. Sowing—Heaping “He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption . . . he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting” (Gal. 6:8). We are ever sowing. There is no mo ment in which seed is not scattered, even by,the most careless. For good or ill, for higher or lower, toward faith or toward disillusionment, we are in fluencing other souls by our words and deeds, and more especially by the tem per and spirit of our lives. Let us look to our sowing! “ Father of mercies, save us from carelessness in sowing.” —Baptist Herald. 21. Cleansing from Tally Sin “He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost” (Tit. 3:5). A single spot of sin is a conductor to receive the flash of the divine anger. The Spirit of God requires of us and brings to us, entire cleansing. I do not believe that you can have the peace of God if you are tolerating or consenting to anything in your heart or life that you know to b e wrong, and yet saying, “It is too much 19.
to expect God to keep a man like that.” God says that is the way He is going to keep you, and you and I have no business to belittle His keeping care. God accepts us as pure, when we stand pure in all the light we have, and do all we know of His blessed will.—A. B. Simpson. “Seek Thy All in Me" “ Grow in grace, and in the knowl edge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” (2 Pet. 3:18). I asked the Lord that I might grow In faith and love, and every grace: Might more of His salvation know, And seek more earnestly His face. I hoped that in some favored hour, At once He’d answer my request, And by His love’s constraining power Subdue my sins and give me rest. ’ Instead of this He made me feel The hidden evils of my heart, And let the angry powers of hell Assault my soul in every part. “Lord, why is this?” I trembling cried: “Wilt Thou pursue Thy worm to death?” “ ’Tis in this way,” the Lord replied, “ I answer prayer for grace and faith. “ These inward trials I employ, From self and pride to set thee free, And break thy schemes of earthly joy, * That thou may’st seek thy all in Me.”—William Newton. 22.
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