IN CHRIST IS LIFE
Taking God Into Business
If There Is One M o re Thing Yon Heed By Arnold Grunigen, Jr. Í ¥7es, I am glad to admit that as a businessman in this mar- ■ velous country of ours, we have most everything. Tele phones and automobiles, television sets and deep freezes, gadgets and trinkets galore. City homes and country homes, all types of climate, high-test gas, good highways, clubs, stocks, bonds and second mortgages. With the highest standard of living and many more things ■ than are good for us, it is too terribly true, that 1954 reveals that in the realm of the successful business and professional •■ man, we find neurosis, boredom and that need of a change and a pickup at every turn. Now, what you need, when you find yourself with a touch of this 1954-itis, is a power, a life, a motivation, beyond your own. It’s awful to be bound up with yourself, your success, failure, good points, bad points. There comes a time in each of our lives when we realize with startling clarity how really empty self is. And when we see ourselves in this emptied condition then we are in a position to receive help. What a lift is ready-made to come into your fife’s program. It arrives with a reception of God through Christ, brought about because the Holy Spirit of God, the third person of the Godhead, has found an opening into your heart and fife in the happy moment that you come to the end of self. And what a relief it will be, when you discover as you will, that belonging to God, being His child, depends on Him, not on you. That’s a real sin-prise isn’t it? And, here’s another phase that will surprise you. God is not interested in your trying to be a Christian. Doing the best you can is of no ■ avail with a holy and a righteous and sin-hating God. But He is mightily interested in having you see your nothingness and utter inability to satisfy Him, with your very best be haviour even, and just rest your case on His remedy, prescrip ts tion and provision as made on the cross of Calvary over 1900 years ago. Faith that you and I use every day of our fives to transact millions of dollars worth of business— that faith that we find H so satisfactory in the business world—is what God honors. He loves to be trusted. Family fife, home fife, business relationships and problems, friendships and all phases and facets of fife will be sweetened, adorned, untangled and enriched when Jesus Christ is taken on board of an otherwise jaded fife, as Redeemer and Lord. H America has everything else, we are God’s spoiled boys, but most of us are without real basis and concrete in fife’s founda tion. Here, in old-fashioned, basic Christianity of the historic type is the one more thing you need! If you have found in this short article a way of life that you would like, we urge you now— this very moment— to yield your will to His will and in doing so find that in Christ is Life. If you have a question, or if we can be of help in any way, please write us. We shall be happy to send you a copy of the Gospel of John. It is yours free for the asking. Address: The Editors, King's Business, 558 S. Hope, Los Angeles 17, Calif.
H ow do you present the claims of Christ to your fellow men? The article on the right was writ ten especially for this businessmen’s issue by Arnold Grunigen, Jr., one of the nation’s top stock and bond investors. This special column is arranged for handy clipping in order that you might give it or send it to a business acquaintance. A ll of us have friends who are seeking for the hope that only Christ can give. Perhaps your giving this column to a friend will be the first step to his coming to know Christ as Saviour. erbs has much to say about men’s hearts. It is better to be poor and to love God with one’s heart than to have riches and not to love God. The right and wrong in the life of a child is just as important in God’s sight as is the wrong and right in the life of an adult. “Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.” Some Christians make the remark: “I don’t care what others think of my words or my life.” Such a statement dishonors the Lord Jesus, for God’s Word says, “A good name [reputation] is rather to be cho sen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.” What we really are, not what we say that we are, is what counts in God’s sight and in the sight of others. If the Lord Jesus is living in your heart, pray that your life will cause others to desire to know Him too. Nov. 21, 1954 God's Provision for His Creatures Pso. 104:1-5, 10-14, 24, 33 Pointers on the Lesson This is a song of praise. It both opens and closes with this note. In Psalm 103 there is praise for the mercy of the Lord. Here it is His majesty that is exalted. This study should -be used to emphasize our duty to give thanks unto God. Praise for His Majesty vv. 1-5 Note the beautiful imagery the psalmist CONTINUED ► O C T O B E R , 1 9 5 4
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