How's YOUR Sweet HEART? . . . I T m a y b e A question you’d rather not face. After all, you’ve strug gled with it for so long. That resent ment, that seething rebellion . . . or is it an ugly jealousy that keeps churning inside until your heart feels ANYTHING but sweet? Is there someone you can’t forgive in spite of a whole string of well- meaning resolutions? Perhaps some real tragedy has struck with ham mer blows, and your emotions refuse to re-adjust. Your heart feels heavy as lead — certainly not sweet. You wonder if you’re the only Christian who feels defeated and re sentful. Most emphatically, NO! You wonder if there’s a way out, if other Christians have found the secret. Most emphatically, YES! When? When they were desperate enough to trust the Holy Spirit to do what they could NOT do. When they were simple enough to cling to God’s great promise, “ I will put My Spirit within you” (Ezek. 36:27). God goes on to say that He will cause us to walk in HIS way, and His way always leads from rebellion, never toward it. The Holy Spirit can balance our “ yo-yo” emotions even though the circumstances remain unchanged. He can (and longs to) give power to do what all our resolves can never do. He can turn our greatest weakness into our greatest strength, and give a serenity that will surprise and de light us. He asks for one thing — that we give Him ALL the pieces of our life’s puzzle — unreservedly. The high cost of living is stagger ing in an exclusive penthouse of re bellion. Pay we must — Satan sees so that! Why risk to much for so little, when all the power of the Holy Spirit is available to anyone who is available to His power! Don’t walk, run! Run straight to God. He longs to give you a sweet heart!
SOMEONE SPECIAI_____ L i k e l y y o u one special?” The girl I’m thinking of has a whole list of wonderful qualities which I’d like to share with you : 1. She is a radiant Christian. Posi tive in thinking and practical in do ing. 2. She is aware of the things she does well. Not a boastful awareness, but as Paul says: “A sane estimate of her capabilities.” She avoids pointing out to others that she has no special talents. 3. She accepts her limitations. She knows we all have our own individ ual assets and limitations. 4. She never apologizes for being “just a housewife.” Homemaking in today’s life is such a versatile and demanding job that it cannot be labeled “ ordinary.” No woman should apologize for the way of life she has chosen. (There is something very un attractive about a woman who dis likes her work. The listener usually ends up by believing the fault is in the person and not the work.) 5. She makes homemaking a crear tive adventure by learning new ways of doing things! Women who refuse to welcome change become unpleas ant and colorless. 6. She keeps a ma/rvelous sense of humor going about her daily adven tures and misadventures! She re fuses to take her self too seriously so she has a better outlook on life and problems and she’s good com pany. (How many people can you laugh with?) 7. She keeps her forgiveness up-to- date. A long time ago she discovered that if there is even one person she cannot forgive then her life is vital ly affected by it. We are to forgive others as God in Christ has forgiven us. (What a requirement!) 9. She has many interests outside of homemaking. She is a Sunday school teacher, a maker of resin grapes, a precinct director for elec tions, a piano teacher and a cookie- maker for 50 shut-ins for Christmas. She’s learned how to pace herself in stead of going in 19 directions at once. 10. She makes her wifely role im portant because of her frequent en thusiastic praise of her husband. Ephesians tells us to honor and pre fer our husbands. Generally we go lightly on the praise and heavy on the contradiction. Any husband feels “ 10 feet tall” when his wife reminds him she is happy and proud that he is her husband and father of their children. know many people but of whom do you think as “ some
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She listens when others speak.
How I love her for this! What about You? Are you some one special? I think you are! You have been bought by a very high price paid on Calvary — not because you earned it or were good enough— but because of God’s grace and love! You are very precious in His sight! Yes, you are someone very special. Remind yourself today. CHARM A glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others. — J. M. Brown LOVE . . . Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often need it most; most of all upon the your equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we each do least of all. Because He loved us, we love; we love everybody. Our heart is slowly changed. Contemplate the love of Christ, and you will love! —Henry Drummond 1851-1897
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VERSE FOR TO DAY Why should blind rebellion Blind and torture me, When the Holy Spirit Pleads to make me fr e e ?
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you” (Ezek. 36:27).
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