power of Christ may rest upon me” (II Cor. 12:9).
we remember what the Apostle Paul declared to the believers at Philippi. He told them that their lives should be “an odour of a sweet smell, a sac rifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God” (Phil. 4:18). May the Lord “make manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place! For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish” (II Cor. 2:14-15).
It doesn't take great men to do great things, it only takes consecrated men.
INTELLECTUAL PRIDE One of the sad things today is to see people worshipping at the shrine of intellectualism. Here at Biola we be lieve there must be a proper balance between academic excellence and the highest spiritual standards. Dr. Sig mund Freud has been generally known as the father of modem psychiatry. Yet according to historians, he was never able to discipline himself. Doctors, listening to his irregular heart beat, urged him to stop heavy cigar smok ing. He tried, but because of personal misery and frustration, he quickly re sumed the habit. As a result, over the years, he required no less than 35 op erations for cancer of the jaw. Finally, he lost the entire lower portion of his face. Despite repeated warnings he con tinued to smoke. The habit finally tri umphed and he died of cancer. What a strange paradox! Here was a man with an intellect supposedly sufficient to ana lyze the human mind. He could identify others’ various problems yet he was never able to conquer his own. This is true of others as well. Habits have a way of completely possessing one’s life. There is a stronger power only God gives through the indwelling presence of His Holy Spirit. It is the privilege of every born-again child of the Lord who by faith has received Jesus Christ as Saviour. Thinking of the resurrection, Paul reminds us that we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us and gave Himself for us!
God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, and acts with a hand that never fails.
COURAGEOUS VICTORY From the beginning of the missionary enterprise no accomplishments were more challenging than those of Adoni- ram Judson of Burma. He had turned his back on a call to the pastorate of Boston’s largest church. His burden was an almost impossible task. He de sired to translate the Scriptures into ■Burmese. So difficult was the assign ment that it took three years to prepare a sim/ple tract explaining the basic doc trines of Christianity. Even at that only one inquirer came to hear the Gospel. A fter listening, he vanished and was never seen again. Another year passed without a single convert. Then Judson’s health broke because of overwork. Not until two more years had passed did Judson see his first convert. Just after that, however, he was im prisoned and brutally tortured because of his faith in Christ. Yet his transla tion of the Scriptures was preserved marvelously. Tragedy co n tin u ed to strike. His wife and children died. As time passed, his second companion died too. Then, just before his own death, more than a hundred years ago in 1850, he was able to complete the first Bur mese Bible. Was this work in vain? Not in the least! Over these interven ing years, more than 200,000 people in Burma found C h r i s t as Saviour. Through those many years of arduous and strenuous labor and trials, Jud son’s testimony was that of the apostle Paul, “Most gladly therefore unll I rather glory in my infirmities, that the
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sor row; it only saps today of its strength.
THE PLIGHT OF SIN Our hearts go out in tender compas sion to those who suffer mental afflic- 27
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