THE KING'S BUSINESS
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That is what we want-to surrender ourselves up to God, fully and wholly. No one man can number the muJtf. tude of wonderful men that have sprung from this one man called out of the land of the Chaldeans, unknown and an idolater, probably, when God called him; and yet how literally God has fulfilled His promise that throug him He would bless all the nations 0 the earth. All because he surrendere himself fully and wholly to let Go bless him. The last surrender is perhaps th most touching and the hardest of a to understand. Perhaps he could n have borne it until the evening of Ji God had been taking him along, ste by step, until now he had reached place where he had learned to obe fully whatever God told him to do. believe the world has yet to see wh God will do with the man who is pe fectly surrendered. Next to God's o Son, Abraham was perhaps the m who came nearest to this standard. Abraham received another ve strange command, and there was a other surrender-his only son. P haps he was making an idol of th boy, and thought more of him than did of the God that gave him. The must be no idol in the heart if we a going to do the will of God on ear If you take my advice, you will ha no will other than God's will. Ma a full and complete surrender, and t sweet messages of heaven will come you. God will whisper into your so the secrets of heaven. After Abraha did what God told him, then it W that God told His friend all about Son. If we make a full surrender, G will give us something better than have ever known before. We will a new vision of Jesus Christ, and w thank God not only in this life but the life to come. May God helP ea and every one of us to make a full 5 render to God, fully and wholly, n and forever.
you prefer the left hand, I will go to the right." Here is where Lot made his mistake. But his eyes fell upon the well-watered plains, and he pitched his tent towards Sodom, and separated from Abram. Now, notice that after Abram had let Lot have his choice, and Lot had gone off to the plains, for the first time God had Abram alone. His father had died at Haran, and he had left his brother there. He moved down to Hebron, and there built an altar. "Hebron" means communion. Here it is that God came to him and said: "Abram, look around as far as your eye can reach-it is all yours. Look from the place \Vhere thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: for all the land which thou seest, to thee \Vill I give it, and to thy seed for e ver. And I will make thy seed as t he dust of the earth; so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, the n shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the le ngth of it and the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee." Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord. Lot chose all he could get, but it was not much. Abram let God choose for him, and was given all the land. Lot had no security for his choice, and soon lost all. Abram's right was maintained undisputed by God the giver. After Abram had given up the wealth of Sodom that was offered him, then God came and enlarged the promise. God said: "Abram, fear not, I will be your ex– ceeding great reward; I will protect you." That is the first time those oft-re– peated words, "Fear not," occur in the Bible. I would rather have that promise than all the armies of earth and all the navies of the world to protect me– to have God of heaven for my Protec– tor! God was teaching Abram that He was to be his Friend and his Shield, if he would surrender himself wholly to His keeping, and trust in His goodness.
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