wrath of God. Your burden is greater than feeling sorry for them. You ear nestly pray and then go out and wit ness to them with a life that backs up your testimony. A third mark that you are really saved is that you love to be with God’s people. Have you noticed horses in a pasture? They stand in opposite direc tions. The tail of one keeps the flies off the neck of the other and vice versa. You will never see a cow and a horse do that. A pig and a sheep will never form such an alliance. Animals, if they are compatible, like to be with their own kind. If you have eternal life as a child of God you will love to be with others of His dear children. You will seek a place to worship Him in spirit and in truth. The fourth mark is that you will want to talk with the Lord. There will be a desire to commune with Him about your business, your children, your sins and your shortcomings. The presence of the Lord is a repair shop or a “dry dock” for His people. When you find things going wrong in your life, go right to our lovely Lord and let Him take care of the problem. This is what David meant when he wrote of God, “He restoreth my soul.” Another evidence of salvation is that you love His Word, the Bible. This is more than just reading a chap ter each day to ease your conscience. You will have a real desire to study it and to find out what truth there is which will apply to your daily life and experience. Jeremiah rightly testified, “Thy words were found and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart.” What happens when you are away from home and you get a letter from a loved one? You read it and cherish it, don’t you? The Bible is God’s love letter to you. If you belong to the Lord, don’t you think you ought to read what He says ? Revel in the mar velous truths contained therein. Each of us should have a desire to know God’s will, God’s way and God’s Word which will be a blessing to our hearts as well as a blessing to the hearts of others.
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iy iHP'l Jr Dr. Samuel H. Sutherland (left), Biola President, and Dr. Charles L. Feinberg (right), dean of Talbot Theological Seminary, meet with a recent Campus speaker, Dr. Cornelius Van Til. THE PROOF OF LOVE One is not hard pressed to find evi dences of hatred in the world. When it comes to love, however, the genuine flower of this Christian grace seldom blossoms in individual hearts. Two lit tle girls had just come home from Sunday school. The text had been on the subject of loving one another. The conversation switched to their school teacher and one complained, “Why, she’s so crabb y , no one could get a long with her. She’s more bitter than the sourest lemon. I just hate her!’’ Her friend piously admonished, “But don’t you remember in Sunday school we learned that we should love everyone?” The first little girl shrugged her shoulders as if to say it didn’t count and declared, “Huh, she wasn’t even bom when that was written.” The Word of God asks the penetrating question, What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say he “has faith” if his actions do not correspond with it. Could that sort of faith save anyone’s soul? I f a fellow man or wo man has no clothes to wear and noth ing to eat, and one of you says, “Good luck to you; I hope you keep warm and find enough to eat,” and yet give them nothing to meet their physical needs, what on earth is the good of that? Yet that is exactly what a bare faith without a corresponding life is like, useless and dead. We sing and talk about love, but do we always ex hibit the true and sincere manifesta tion of it in our daily lives ? “And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love” (I Corinthians 13:13). S
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