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THE KING’S BUSINESS
“Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" The answer was, “Arise and enter into the city (of Damascus) and it shall be told thee what thou must do.” So in response to your cry, “Lord, what shall I do?”, you received the reply, “Go to the Bible Insti tute and there it; shall be told thee what thou shalt do.” So you are here in this modern school of the prophets,' every one of you, saying, “Speak, Lord, for thy ser vant heareth.” ' Nor are you any more certain as to what special kind of service you are called to. You have said, “There’s surely somewhere a lowly place In earth’s harvest fields so wide, Where I may labor thro’ life’s short day For Jesus, the Crucified. So, trusting my all unto Thy care, I know Thou lovest me! I’ll do Thy will with a heart sincere, I’ll| be what you want me to be. I’ll go where you want me to go, dear Lord, O’er mountain, or plain, or sea; I’ll say what you want me to say, dear Lord, I’ll be what you want me to be.” And so you have come to the right place. You may be confident that He who hath led you thus far will still lead you on. During the Civil War, a recruit who had lost his place in his company, said1, very timidly, to General Sherman, “Where shall I fall in?” The General replied, “Fall in anywhere, there’s firing all along this line.” It may be, further, that you realize, also, the handicaps and shortcomings which may interfere with the best service. You have asked this again and again: “Can one of such limited ability be of service to God?” The Roman asked for the strong; the Greek, for the cultured; the Hebrew, for the religious. Only Jesus Christ would receive the bird with the broken wing. Only in the Scripture is it recorded Ahat “the lame take the prey.” Jacob limping is greater than/ Jacob scheming. How wonderfully is the fact set forth
in the Scriptures that Gt>d uses the weak things of the world; the stick in the hands of Moses, the sling used by David, the jaw bone of an ass by Samson, the lamp, and pitcher by the soldiers of Gideon, the ram’s horn by the priests at Jericho, and the ox goad by Shamgar. The battle is not to the strong nor the race to the swift; nor is if of him that willeth or him that' runneth; nor is it by might or by power. God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound' the strong, and the foolish to confound the wise. The world by wisdom knew not God. We are not despising scholarship. We need it. The more of it we have the better, provided it is dedicated to God. The story is told of a physician named Brown who, in the midst of a career which promised wonderful success, was smittem blind. In his depression and disappoint ment he was drawn nearer to God, and cried out in the agony of his soul, “Lord, I consecrate this blindness to Thee.” It was this same doctor who, even though blind, invented the alphabet for the blind so that thousands upon thousands of blind people" have been able to read the Bible. So was it with Dr. Lorenz, the famous blood less physician. It is reported that once, while operating, a slight wound in his hand became infected so that he could no longer be a wet surgeon. He resolved there and then that he would become a dry surgeon. It was this great physician' that Mr. Armour, of the great packing house of Chicago, called all the way from Paris to treat his daughter, who was unable to walk. II. Your Ambition to Be Faithful to th e Call and th e Vision, You have not been disobedient to the heavenly vision, but have determined to follow the light that God has given you as far as it will lead you. You are ambitious for God. I like the word “ambition.” It is a Bible word. Paul says we are to be ambitious to show ourselves approved unto God, workmen that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Timothy
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