hollow of His hand, before whom the inhabitants of the earth are as grass hoppers, when He comes into human life finds himself as essentially meek and lowly in heart. It is not that He erected a perfect human ideal and ac commodated himself to it; He was that.” “W ith longsuffering, forbearing one another.” There are implications in WIT'S END CORNER Are you standing at W it's End Corner, Christian with troubled brow? Are you thinking of what is before you And all you are bearing now? Does all the world seem against you And you in the battle alone, Remember at W it's End Corner Is just where God's power is shown. Feeling you cannot endure it. You cannot bare the strain? Bruised through the constant suffer ing, Dizzy and dazed and numb, Remember, to W it's End Corner, Is where Jesus loves to come. Are you standing at W it's End Comer Blinded with wearing pain? Are you at W it's End Corner? Then you're just at the very spot To learn the wondrous resources Of Him who faileth not. We trust to a brighter pathway Your life may soon be moved But only at W it's End Corner Is the God who is able proved. “M y grace is sufficient for thee: for m y strength is made perfect in weakness” (II Cor. 12:9). this entreaty which we must not miss. Human nature presents many sharp comers and rough surfaces. There would be no need for the longsuffering and the forbearing were it not for the “one another.’’ It is we who are the occasion for it; the injunction would be unnecessary but for us. But could this Apostle forget that in this exhorta tion to longsuffering he is urging us to imitate God? Repeatedly he speaks of the divine forbearance. He says that God “endured with much longsuffering 34
Ephesians (continued) hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes t Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight (Matt. 11:25-26). And then, after . soliloquizing with Himself, He turns His face to the work in that all-encompassing invitation with which the chapter concludes. Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I w ill give you HOW MUCH I OWE When this passing world is done. When it has sunk below the glowing sun, When we stand with Christ in glory, Looking o'er life's finished story, Then, Lord, shall I fully know Not till then -— how much I owe. When I stand before Thy throne, Dressed in beauty not my own. When I see Thee as Thou art. Love Thee with unsinning heart, Then, Lord, shall I fully know Not till then — how much I owe. When the praise of heaven I hear. Loud as thunder to the ear. Loud as many waters noise, Sweet as harps' melodious voice, Then, Lord, shall I fully know Not till then — how much I owe. Even on earth, as through a glass Darkly, let Thy glory pass. Make forgiveness feel so sweet, Make Thy Spirit's help to meet. Even on earth, Lord, make me know Something of how much I owe. — Robert Murray McCheyne rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart (Matt. 11:28-29). “Meek and lowly in heart.” “I am meek and lowly.” What an astonish ing wonderful statement! Robert Lee wrote, “The One who made the worlds, who flung the stars into space and calls them by name, who preserves the in numerable constellations in their cours es, who weighs the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance, who takes up the isles as a very little thing, who holds the waters of the ocean in the
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