the only way to get ready is to avail yourself of the provisions of God’s grace made ours through the two events surrounded with earthquakes: the death of our Lord on Calvary’s cross for our sins, and His rising again for our justification. TOO BUSY Too busy to read the Bible, Too busy to wait and pray! Too busy to speak out kindly To someone by the way! Too busy to care and struggle, To think of the life to come! Too busy building mansions. To plan for the heavenly home. Too busy to help a brother Who faces the winter’s blast! Too busy to share his burden When self in the balance is cast. Too busy for all that is holy On earth beneath the skies; Too busy to serve the Master But . . . not too busy to die. MY RIGHTS “I have a perfect right,” you say, “To do the things I do, To be with whom I wish to be: And who shall, then, dictate to me? Or say where I shall go?" But you forget . . . you’re not your own; For you a price was paid . . . A price One only could afford. And then a charge to serve your Lord Was surely on you laid. And if the things you wish to do Will cause another pain, Have you the “right” to add to grief? Should you not, rather, give relief? Think over it again. Once more: will you insist on "rights," And weak ones hindered be? Oh Lord! Do Thou our actions guard That we may never make it hard For souls to follow Thee.
people from idols to the Lord, the image makers started an uproar. It always happens that way. There is something wrong when the Church can exist in the community with all the owners of iniquity making no protest. Paul didn’t lecture on demonism at Philippi; he preached the Gospel. When people really believe the Gos pel, however, they will quit patron izing the devil. Every time Paul won a convert, the devil lost a customer. Right here is our trouble today. Too many people join churches and go right on doing business with the devil. He has too many professing Christians on his side. Too many converts of the church are still cus tomers of Satan. People often ask, “Do you think the Church will go underground?” I don’t know, but if it does, it may develop more power there than is now manifested. It was the Chris tians in the catacombs who put the coliseum out of business. We are not going to pray down earthquakes at committee meetings in church base ments sipping hot chocolate and lis tening to the minutes of the last meeting. We are heirs to a move ment that started with an earth quake. We are not going to move the world until the Gospel that shook our forefathers shakes us. The Lord is coming again. There will be one more quake which is clearly spoken of in the Word of God. Read the book of Revelation and get a graphic picture of this cata clysmic event. We are living between the earth quakes of grace and the coming earthquake of glory. Are you ready for it? I heard of an old lady who, in the midst of an earthquake, said, “I’m glad I’ve got a God who can shake this world like that.” He has done it and He will do it again. We thank God for a faith that shakes the world. If you are not prepared for this final earthquake, dear friend, 6
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