Silent Adoration w hen man in his littleness and God in his glory meet, we all understand that what God says has infinitely more worth than what man says. And yet our prayer so often consists in the utterance of our thoughts of what we need, that we give God no time to speak to us. Our prayers are often so in definite and vague. It is a great lesson to learn, that to be silent un to God is the secret of true adora tion. Let us remember the promise, "In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.” It is as the soul bows itself be fore Him to remember His great ness and His holiness, His power and His love, and seeks to give Him the honor and the reverence and the worship that are His due, that the heart will be opened to receive the Divine impression of the nearness of God and of the working of His power. O Christian, do believe that such worship of God—in which you bow low and ever lower in your noth ingness, and lift up your thoughts to realize God’s presence, as He gives Himself to you in Christ Je sus—is the sure way to give Him the glory that is His due, and will lead to the highest blessedness to be found in prayer. Do not imagine that it is time lost. Do not turn from it, if at first it appears difficult or fruitless. Be assured that it brings you into the right relation to God. It opens the way to fellowship with Him. It leads to the blessed assurance that He is looking on you in ten der love and working in you with a secret but Divine power. And as at length you become more accus tomed to it, it will give you the sense of His presence abiding with you all the day. It will make you strong to testify for God. Some one has said, “No one is able to influence others for goodness and holiness, beyond the amount that there is of God in him.” Men will begin to feel that you have been with God. — A n d r e w M u r r a y "Adore Him unceasingly; this is the glorious employment of a Chris tian.”
that comes to us. So He and He alone can keep us from stumbling. “ The infinite and exhaustless power of the Redeemer is equal to our preservation in this world of temp tation and sin, yet a certain atti tude in us is indispensable to our insuring this sustaining, preserving power” (R. Ferguson). What is meant by this qualification is well expressed in the words of Alexander Maclaren: “ There is no absolute promise or assurance that He will, but there is the broad declaration of the ability. That is to say, some thing else is needed than the Divine power if I am to be kept from fall ing. And what is that else except my grasp of that power” ? To make a saint out of a sinner is more difficult than to make a world out of nothing. To keep sin ners from stumbling is more difficult than to keep the stars in their courses. W e rejoice to know that our God is able to do both. His eye never slumbers. He places the whole re sources of Deity behind us to keep us walking and not falling. He has wisdom as well as power and He can exercise both so that we walk, through the difficult places of life without putting a foot wrong. “ Re ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is per fect,” is the command (Matt. 5:48). The power of God is the means of obeying. Can we find any whom God has kept? In the Book of The Revelation we see. what God’s power did for one devoted band. “ And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault . . .” (Rev. 14:5). A low-grade spiritual life can never be due to the inability of God to create anything better but only to the poverty of our faith. When we consider our service, once more we see what God is able to do. It often happens that Chris tians, when asked to undertake some fresh service, plead their lack of qualifications. They are so feeble, so foolish, so faulty, so unsuccess-
what else God is able to do unless He is able to preserve us and give us eternal life. The time is coming when we are to stand before God; will there he any doubt as to wheth er we are going to heaven or hell? No. It is true- that foes may assail us, fears may almost overwhelm us, hut all is well because God is able to keep us. God is able to create in us a holy character. He “ is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy” (Jude 24). The word for “ falling” means tripping. God is able to keep us from taking a false step. The power is
Each morning at eight the editorial staff of King's Busi ness magazine g a th e rs for prayer. Over the years God has I answered the heartcry of thou- Ì sands. Should you have a request we would count it a privilege to take it to the throne of grace. Your request will be held in the strictest confidence. Address: The Edi tors, King's Business, 5 58 So. Hope St., Los Angeles 17, Calif. with God alone. Our enemies are great in number, strong in power, deep in malice and diabolical in subtlety. W e are prone to many temptations. W e might despair if it were not for the fact that God is keeping us. He knows every weak ness of our character. He can con trol every thought and action. He is master of every circumstance
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