Parables and Pearls (continued) “Thou art weighed in the balances and found wanting!” W ill God make this same accusation about a besotten land in which crime and immorality are outstripping the population nearly five times over? The Bible says, “Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.” We cannot sow the seeds of blasphemy, without reaping whirl-, winds of national calamity. * * * The law was broken in people's hearts before it was broken in Moses' hands. * * * GIVE TO KEEP It is hard for most people tf> realize that when difficult and trying times come, they are never made more im poverished by giving to the Lord. In a certain community a business depres sion hit one of the best stewards in the local church. He lost all he had. A friend, who was somewhat like those companions of lob, declared, “If you hadn't given so much to the church back there when you had it, now you’d have enough to get a fresh start.” The earnest believer smiled and replied, “No. Thafs the only money I’ve really saved. If I hadn’t given it to the Lord., it would have all gone like the rest. Now it’ll always be mine.” The Lord says that what we treasure or store up in heaven we never lose, and the way we send our moiyey on ahead is by investing in a ministry that finds its results ultimately in heaven. Christians, likecamels,receive their bur dens by kneeling. * * * VICTORY THROUGH CONFLICT Into every life there come problems and frustrations, difficulties and hard ships. To flee from them means only greater defeat. They must be met “head on” through the indwelling presence of GcxTs Holy Spirit. The word “handi cap” is particularly interesting in this respect because of its background. Orig- * * *
Architect for Biola Campus buildings, Mr. William C. Ullrich, A.I.A., with his wife. Mrs. Ullrich is active in the Biola Women’s Auxiliary. inally a handicap w a s something placed on a runner in order to retard or hold him back while he was in training. Sometimes it was a weight hung from his shoulders or tied about his waist. In other instances it might have been a chain fastened to the feet. Some athletes put weights in the soles of their sandals; anything that might impede their pace and cause them to put forth an extra push or 'effort. By overcoming such obstacles the racer was enabled to achieve his goal when he faced the eventual conflict. Do you see the analogy? A handicap is often used to strengthen, for, by overcoming the difficulty, victory is won. The Word of God tells us, “We are trou bled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken', cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.” * * * There is an "I" in every accident and a "U" in every excuse. * * * A PRAYER IN THE U.N. Much is said these days, both pro 20
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