responsibility is to turn it all over to Him unreservedly. His responsi bility, then, is to keep it. If, but one message, I would leave behind One single word of courage for my kind, It would be this: "Oh brother, sister, friend Whatever life may bring, whatever God may send. . . No matter whether clouds lift soon or late, Take heart and wait."
tion as we are exhorted, "But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be spiritually mature and complete, lacking nothing." Like children, we want what we want, when we want it! Hebrews 10:36 is a verse of scripture that my wife and I took when we first married as Biola students. It has re mained a text of importance and meaning throughout our 25 years of being together. Let me share it with you: "For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of Cod, ye might receive the promise." Isaiah 40:30 affirms, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength." That is what David is saying too. "Be of good courage is saying, too. "Be of good cour age and He shall strengthen thine heart." You see how Scripture co incides with Scripture? Although there were different human writers yet there is the same divine Author, the Holy Spirit. How unfortunate and foolish a man is to take confi dence in the laws and forces of nature, while yet forsaking the time or opportunity to place his confi dence wholly in the Lord. Scripture says, "Cursed by every man who trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord." To wait means to comply with the conditions of God's promises. The Lord Jesus taught us that men ought always to pray and not to faint. The fact of the matter is that a prayerless man cannot be said to be waiting on the Lord. In Psalm 37:5 we read, "Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and he shall bring it to pass." God can only keep that which you are willing to commit to Him. Your
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