PROTECTED BY THE LORD Sometimes it is all too easy to take for granted the protecting, loving care of our heavenly Father. It is like the lit tle boy who had been used to sleeping with a night light on in his room. When he reached a certain age his parents felt he was old enough to do without it. He was to get along in the dark. The first night, however, he plead, “But, mommy, do I have to sleep where there’s no light?" His mother reassured him, “Yes, son, you’re getting to be a big boy now. God will take care of you!" Without scy thing more he got up out of his bed, knelt down on his knees (although he had already said his prayers), explaining, "As long as I’m not going to have any light I think I ’d better say my prayefb again more carefully." Perhaps some of the rest of us would need to do the same. We so quickly forget that we are the central objects of God’s love. During the heighth of his military conquests and successes, Napoleon re ferred again and again to his large map of Europe. He had drawn a red circle around the British Isles. Frequently he would commiserate, “Were it not for this red spot, I could conquer the whole world.” As we think of that, what a blessing to know that we may come to the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. His blood shed on Calvary gives us the as surance that this sacrifice is all suffi cient. Were it not for this red covering, Satan would be victorious. Wherefore, “we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us and washed us in His own blood.” * * * Pride often builds thenest in which pov erty hatches out its sorrows. * * * THE LORD'S PROPERTY A Christian servant in a certain home had such implicit faith and confidence in the Lord that he wasn’t shaken by the bitter scorn and persecution of his employers. The more they ridiculed and tried him, the happier he appeared. One day the servant’s master overheard him praying, “Dear Lord, you know the devil’s getting after me. I ’m one of your children in trouble. You’d better come and take care of me because your prop erty’s in danger!” Suoh an e a r n e s t prayer will always be answered. What a blessed truth it is to realize that we are children of God, joint heirs with Jesus Christ.
Mr, Merv Fishback (right), executive administrator of Arizona Bible College, Phoenix, discusses Biola's affiliate with Rev. Ed Rogers, ABC stewardship representative. M A N 'S ERROR Although it h a p p en ed nearly six months ago, one can hardly forget the devastating floods which hit Northern California and Oregon Christmas week last year. Damage now totals nearly $500,000fiOO. It was during that period when the new John Day Bridge on High way 80 washed away, taking with it th re e lives. The Portland-Oregonian newspaper, in their January 20 issue, in terestingly cleared God of any blame, placing the fault as an error in human judgment. It was earlier believed that the collapse of the bridge was simply due to the heavy rainfall and resulting flood. The Oregon h ig hw a y commissioner, however, has frankly admitted that the decision not to rest the central pier on bedrock was the human error in judg ment which led to the collapse of the bridge and the loss of lives when the storms came. What was true of this steel and cement structure is a spiritual picture of the lives of many who, in the overwhelming floodtides of trials and temptations, have given way, resulting in personal destruction and failure. So it is with those who have rested their foundations on the shifting sands of human philosophy, or upon some relig ious system, rather than upon the Lord Jesus Christ. No wonder we read that tremendous statement of reality and tes timony in Scripture that “other founda tion can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” * * * If success turns your head, then you're facing in the wrong direction. 10
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