that the Administration promised is that they would not go into debt again. There are buildings desperately needed out on our La Mirada campus, but the Administration says NO, not until we have the money with which to honor our early pledge. That is why we some times drop stations for we believe in keeping our bills paid up monthly. Often Managers come and say to us, we wish all of our people were like Biola—some owe us for six months or more. What a reproach to the name of Christ—do not let your bills run up. But almost as a paradox, the Apostle Paul tells us that there is a debt which we can never fully pay, and that is that we are to love one another. This love and this debt are to grow with every passing day. I told you recently how the Lord had provided a home for us and we are paying for it monthly, but the debt is growing smaller and not larger. Here, however, is a debt which grows greater each day, it is our debt of love to those about us. As far as our relationship to God is concerned, it is not legal in any sense of the word. The law has been fulfilled only in Christ. While our relationship to God is not legal, our relationship to the world, and to the affairs of life life, is. We have a law of love which must be fulfilled. For instance, how much love have you manifested for those whom you know at church? There is doubtless a group of believers whom you enjoy in fellowship there. But are there some whom you do not especially care for? Those who are not your closest friends? Those about whom, if things did not go just the best way, you would say well they got their just desert? Well, if you would have this feeling then you have missed the kind of “debtor love” about which this verse is speaking—a love as a Christian patriot — about which this verse says we should' have. May God challenge our hearts with the gravity of the hour!
been easy ever since; that has not been the case. Some days there is not enough money coming in to meet the GOD'S WISDOM I prayed for strength; and then I lost awhile All sense of nearness, human and divine: The love I leaned on failed and pierced my heart. The hands I clung to loosed them selves from mine; But while I swayed, weak, trembling, and alone, The everlasting arms upheld my own. I prayed for light; the sun went down in clouds, The moon was darkened by a misty doubt; The stars of heaven were dimmed by earthly fears, And all my little candle flames burned out; But while I sat in the shadow, wrap ped in night, The face of Christ made all the darkness light. I prayed for peace, and dreamed of restful ease, A slumber drugged from pain, a hushed repose; Above my head the skies were black with storm, And fiercer grew the onslaught of my foes; , But while the battle raged, and wild winds blew, I head His voice and perfect p>eace I knew. I thank Thee, Lord, Thou wert too wise to heed M y feeble prayers, and answer as I sought, Since these „rich gifts Thy bounty hast bestowed Have brought me more than all I asked or thought; Giver of good, so answer each request With Thine own giving, better than my best!
bills which are current, and then on other days just the right amount, to the penny, comes in. But the one thing
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